Buyer Beware: If you buy a current model of a Philips-Norelco beard trimmer, when its rechargeable battery reaches end of life, and while the unit remains in excellent working condition, you’re almost up the infamous creek. All current models (and at least one that’s about five years old that this writer is the now-unhappy owner of) are not designed to have their rechargeable battery replaced by the owner.
Obviously, planned obsolescence is a core element of the Philips-Norelco business plan – as though nothing has been learned in the past 40 years: the environment, energy consumption, and material waste.
Why not call Philips-Norelco customer service (800-243-3050), to give them a piece of your mind?
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Environment,
Product Review
A very interesting review of the history and importance of the eel in North America:
As the story goes, Squanto — a Patuxet Indian who had learned English — took pity on the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony who had managed to survive that first brutal winter, and showed them how to plant corn, putting a dead fish in each hole where a seed was planted. But before that, before the ground had even fully thawed, he taught them a perhaps more valuable skill: how to catch a fatty, nutritious fish that would sustain them in the worst of winters. And this food item, likely on the table of that first Thanksgiving, would have carried special significance to those remaining colonists. Eels — a forgotten staple of our forefathers.
While explaining events that lead to the near-extinction of the eel, the writer leaves out the fate of the Indians in the hands of America’s colonists.
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Environment,
Food
