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When used in gardening, can be DIY'd with terracotta plant pots buried in the soil, with the drainage hole filled and top covered.

Olla irrigation works like this:

• When the soil around the olla is dry, the soil pulls the water through the wall of the olla and into the soil, (the tension is between wet and dry), thus providing water for the roots.
• When the soil is wet from rain or has not dried out yet, there is no tension and the water is not pulled through the wall of the olla.

Some of the causes of olfaction problems are allergies, nasal polyps, viral infections and head trauma. [...] Lifelong hyposmia could be caused by or comorbid with Kallmann syndrome or autism.

See also: Dysosmia and Anosmia, which list an assortment of causes including fibromyalgia, Bell's palsy, depression, etc. Bodies are a mess, it seems.

Articles I did not expect to have a BSDM section: this one

Articles I probably could have inferred could have a BDSM section: also this one

People will probably (possibly) assume:

• ring finger (usually left, sometimes right: engagement/wedding rings etc- well-established tradition
• pinkie (left): signet rings- less relevant in a modern context
• index (right): birthstone ring

Otherwise, as far as I can tell, have at.

When the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was enlisted to introduce the metric system for weather reporting and forecasts, its public relations officer, Godfrey Wiseman, coined a series of jingles to educate the public, using the terms frosty fives, tingling tens, temperate twenties, thirsty thirties and fiery forties to describe human sensation to temperatures in degrees Celsius.

My Fahrenheit friends may appreciate this...

Tikkun olam (lit. 'repairing the world') is a religious concept in Judaism, which refers to various forms of action intended to repair and improve the world.

[...]

For many Jews, the phrase tikkun olam means that Jews are not only responsible for creating a model society among themselves, but also are responsible for all humanity and for the welfare of the society at large.

Some hobby applications call for cyanoacrylate glue mixed with inorganic fillers such as baking soda (sodium bicarbonate).

possibly useful for making curated wikipedia collections, includes a suggestion tool