Little tricks journal science and life. Little Tricks of the Science and Life. Well, let's set a new trend

Useful Tips
Don't rush to throw away the rusty metal mattress from your old bed. Throw it away slowly, with pleasure.
Do not go on a long journey from home in new, unworn shoes. For a while, walk around the apartment in it - first with crutches, then with a cane and, finally, along the wall.
Oil paint stains will not be as noticeable on your clothes if you no longer wear them.
Treat freshly planted fruit spots immediately with a 3% solution of heteroauxin in perchlorethane. Then, after a year or two, they will retain their original taste, color, aroma and vitamins.
If, after scraping, the parquet floor in the apartment has become slippery, sprinkle it with coarse salt or river sand. In the most hazardous areas, cover with rough planking or chipping off with a crowbar.
To prevent the flowers from wilting in the kitchen when leaving on a business trip or vacation, open all the taps in the bathroom and in the kitchen, after plugging the sinks. Then, on your return, your green friends will be waiting for you - from all the lower floors.
If the closet, hung with outer clothing, becomes cramped, try to hide in another place!
To make kulebyaka from yeast dough, take:
100 g flour
5 g yeast
1 glass of milk
2 egg yolks
a teaspoon of salt
a tablespoon of sugar
Eat it all, alternating carefully. The kulebyaka will be ready in an hour.
If the glasses slide off the bridge of your nose while laughing, walking and sudden movements, sit quietly in your glasses at home and do not let anyone in.
Flew away migratory birds, the autumn cold has come, but the heating has not yet begun? Take a hammer in your hands and start knocking it hard on the cold battery. In an hour the whole house will join you, in two the migratory birds will return, and in a week you will realize that until it gets warmer outside, they will not start heating.
One thin book can serve as an excellent stand for a hot kettle, if you have not read another in your entire life.
Connect the doorbell to the telephone. Then, by looking through the peephole, you can find out who is calling you on the phone.
An ordinary handkerchief will serve you for many years without washing, remaining practically clean if it is the size of a ship's sail.
Did you know that in the flush cistern they will take root well aquarium fish, and you can hide from the rain by folding your ears into a house.
Did you know that vermicelli can be inserted into the holes of pasta, and the moth never eats a live ram, because it does not smell like mothballs.
Sew the chicken head onto the pillow. Ready? Now try to explain why you did it.
If you want life to pass by, read useful tips.

The heading “To the Home Master: Little Tricks”, published since the 60s in the journal “Science and Life”, had little in common with science, but was very close to the life of a Soviet person. The eternal scarcity of everything forced people to redo old things and invent new ones. The column was so popular that in the USSR there was even a legend about a Japanese businessman who became a millionaire thanks to the advice he cunningly borrowed from a Soviet magazine ...

The Soviet journal Science and Life was very popular. For example, the circulation of the issue for March 1977 was 3 million copies with a volume of 160 pages. Now no Russian media can even dream of such a circulation. And, in fact, even today, many articles of this old magazine are quite interesting.

The title of the journal reflected its structure. Part of the issue was always devoted to various problems of science and technology, and part - to the notorious life. And, therefore, this very heading “To the home master. Tips ”was published in each issue. And although it occupied only one page, it was one of the most popular sections of this magazine. What was so interesting about her?

The genre that can be called "Master's Tips" is generally quite popular. Today, with the advent of the Internet, you can easily find a lot of materials (both in text and video format), in which masters of their craft share their experience and give useful advice. How to change the door lock, how to change the socket, how to properly lay tiles or glue the wallpaper.

People have a lot of needs and a lot of advice. But there is one definite property in them - usually these are the advice given by the masters of their craft. That is, let's say a professional electrician tells you how to properly hang a chandelier. A professional builder tells how to build a house correctly. Well, etc.

Heading “To the home master. Tips "of the journal" Science and Life "partially also contained such advice from professionals. Adjusted for Soviet time, of course (that is, there were no tips like: "how to choose the best from the many mixers in the store"), but there were some tips, well, here's how in the above scan - how to "bring to mind" the guides for the glass in the sideboard or how to determine DC supply polarity. There were also more professional advice, such as how to make it easier for yourself to drill a hole in a concrete load-bearing wall.

One of the slogans of the Soviet citizen is that you shouldn't throw away something that has already served its service life, because it may still be useful for something. Below is a selection of "tips and tricks" (often directed at women) from Science and Life magazine. All clippings are taken from magazines for the period 1975 - 1980.

Vladimir BEREZIN, specially for "Kashin"

For some reason, my easily excitable compatriots, calling out poverty and hunger, began to recall the famous "Little Tricks" section in the excellent magazine "Science and Life" and consider it a symbol of Soviet poverty and backwardness.

I grew up on the files of Science and Life and will rise in its defense. Many of the ideas there were not at all from poverty, but from healthy pragmatism. (No wonder the legend said that the Japanese translated and republished these tips.) Why run to the store for a dowel if there is a piece of wire braid under your feet?

Undoubted scarcity is in itself, tricks are in themselves, and human habits are in themselves.

The fact is that there are at least three groups of councils - some are really built on poverty, others, on the frugality characteristic of all nations (both British and Russian people sometimes want to make something out of waste themselves). Moreover, there is also the use of any garbage for instead of small devices - these devices are in stores in all countries, but this contraption was suddenly needed right at that moment - and that an American in America has to drive an hour to the store, that we have the same distance to the market by trolleybus. In addition, the daily possession of this contraption is needed by a professional, and you only need it once in a lifetime.

This phenomenon is international. The witty Briton Jerome K. Jerome wrote about the little tricks of his time like this: “I remember a lot, including something that belongs to the distant past. Of course, I do not hope that you, a benevolent reader, just entering the flourishing period of life, at that age that careless youth calls average, will remember with me a time when a certain magazine called “Master amateur” was in great demand. His goal was noble. He strove to preach the lofty idea of independence, to spread the excellent teaching of self-help. One chapter explained to the reader how to turn Australian canned meat cans into flower pots; in another chapter, how to turn an oil tub into a swivel piano stool; in the third - how to use old hatboxes for the device of blinds - the principle of the whole system was to make anything from things that were not intended for this and could not be more suitable.<…>Picture frames could be made from ginger beer corks. We collected traffic jams, found a painting - and the job was done. The amount of ginger beer that was required to drink before starting to make each frame, as well as the effect of this drink on the physical, mental and moral condition of the manufacturer - none of this interested the magazine. By my calculations, it would take sixteen dozen bottles for a medium-sized painting. It remains to be seen whether a person will retain the slightest desire to make a frame for a picture after drinking sixteen dozen bottles, and whether he will not stop liking the picture itself. But this, of course, is a secondary issue. "

Even the irony about home advice is international.

And, finally, there were tips for the home craftsman, which consisted in methods of working with a tool and, in general, some methods of work .. They are relevant even now, outside the quality of the industry, because they are connected precisely with the methods of work.

But these tips are also an indicator of the development of civilization.

The share of disposable items around us has increased - on the one hand, we stopped repairing some simple things (who, who refills the refills for fountain pens?), On the other hand, the details of everyday life that have died on our hands can serve building material literally for everything.

Household chemicals made a huge step forward, from paints and adhesives to building mixtures. Nobody stores brushes until the next repair.

It is suggested to make a scoop for loose substances from a children's skittle, because in the sixties it was easier to find a children's skittle than plastic bottle... And nowadays there is a lot of advice on how to make funnels, feeders and a house for a hamster from bottles. By the way, the bloodthirsty attitude towards children's toys - all these severed heads of bobbleheads on towbars and gas tank necks, jumping hares stuffed with nuts and bolts - this is forever.

Earlier plastic bags were in short supply, and now they do not know how to get rid of them. What was reusable becomes disposable.

Here, for example, the repair of televisions - I was somehow taught to repair the radar blocks of an anti-aircraft missile system. A comrade told me that one cadet was bitten off all the legs on the electronic tube, except for the power supply legs, and it glowed with a red light, but did not give anything out to the circuit. It took a lot of luck to figure this out and fix the problem. But other times have come, and the very ideology of repair has changed - in fact, nothing is repaired (especially in a combat situation) - they take out the block by the handle and replace it with another.

I'll die like a man of the old world, with his everyday habits - it's still hard for me to throw out the packaging, all sorts of clean cans and boxes.

We already have ballpoint pens, but fixing the nib on the refill and refilling the refill with paste are gone. Particularly nostalgic is the phrase "He who deals with drawings on tracing paper ..."

Through "Little Tricks" the material culture of Atlantis can be seen - radios and televisions with a lens. Tape recorders "like" Electronics-302 "! A good friend of mine remarked: “We finished the tape recorders en masse, since it was not possible for everyone to hold the tight rewind key with our finger. In the process of finishing, many discovered for themselves the reason why the keys were not fixed at the factory - the grooves in the figured plate must be very precise, otherwise the key gets stuck or spontaneously clicks off. " And the old newspapers! What's lost is the culture of recycling old newspapers. And there were no newspapers either - the huge panels of Pravda, because they once hung everywhere in the washrooms - neatly cut by intellectuals, by ordinary people- on a nail. They grounded the walls, peeled potatoes in them. Newspapers well-worn in boots saved us from the winter cold.

Here's what's interesting: there are typical tips here, which have been solved by the industry during this time - wheels on a suitcase. The same tips were the diagrams of the remote control for the TV on wires (not the radio remote control, namely the wired switch, which switched four programs). That is, the facility still exists, but the industry has flooded the market with IR remote controls.

Here is another tip about paint brushes (extending their service or replacing them is perhaps the most frequent topic of advice), and a wonderful battery on a motorcycle, which, if nothing is done, eats away at the shiny surfaces of an iron horse and your clothes.

In one of the collections, the advice began with the words: “If the lid of a porcelain teapot is cracked, a dish is broken, do not worry too much,” writes R. Arkadiev (Moscow). There would be a break in this speech.

But the main pathos of this still existing rubric is that a common man with pliers conquers everything. He stops wars and repairs what was destroyed. He takes off his wife's pantyhose and replaces the fan belt in the car's engine with them and takes his wife to the airport - without pantyhose, but on time.

Half a century ago, he was no more stupid than we are today. No one can destroy and belittle him. And no matter what happens, he will turn out, fix everything and come up with three new ways of rolling cucumbers.

By the way, if you need glass jars for canning, you can take them from me.

The title of the journal reflected its structure. Part of the issue has always been devoted to various problems of science and technology, and part - to the notorious life. And, therefore, this very heading “To the home master. Tips ”was published in each issue. And although it occupied only one page, it was one of the most popular sections of this magazine. What was so interesting about her?

Heading “To the home master. Tips ”of the journal“ Science and Life ”partially also contained such advice from professionals. Adjusted for the Soviet era, of course (that is, there were no tips like: "how to choose the best from the many mixers in the store"), but there were tips, well, here's how in the above scan, how to "bring to mind" the guides for the glasses in a sideboard or how to determine the polarity of a DC source. There were also more professional advice, such as how to make it easier for yourself to drill a hole in a concrete load-bearing wall.

The modern generation with bewilderment and even genuine horror in their eyes looks at many things that were considered the norm for a person born in the USSR.

But really, how can we explain to a child today that in an era of total scarcity, our grandmother knew at least 10 ways to use old nylon tights, and grandfather could easily convert the milking machine into an elegant floor lamp?

So, each such trick, or as they say today - "life hack", was worth its weight in gold. And even more - the favorite magazine of the Soviet man "Science and Life" assigned a special section for him, for which he collected the most useful advice from readers, and published the best!

Believe it or not, the popularity of the “Craftsman: Little Tricks” column was so incredible that there was even a legend in the country about a businessman from Japan who became a millionaire just because he used the advice from the magazine in his life.

In a word, we prepared you as best we could to get to know them!

1. Today you can watch TV programs from any mobile gadget or outweigh your home "plasma" to where it is more convenient for you, and in an era of stagnation, comfortable watching TV turned into a small problem, which advice from the Science and Life magazine suggested to solve here in this manner!

2. During the ice, do you usually sit at home or, at the risk of falling and breaking an arm or leg, take slow steps to get to work? Weaklings!

3. Nowadays, everyone can buy a lightweight stroller or use an elevator, but you try to make an "all-terrain stroller"!

4. What kind of habit is it - to buy new slippers when the old ones have fallen into disrepair? Here's a life hack for you, and don't thank!

5. So, if you are just packing your suitcases for holidays in hot countries, then do not forget to put there a piece of plastic film and KLT adhesive tape. And do not ask why, but read!

6. Well, how much can you pollute the planet with these plastic bags, when there is simply an ingenious way out!

8. Promise that you will not pour out anything from today!

10. While you are opening the calendar in your smartphone, the Soviet person has already made a note on the required date!

11. Well, what if one day you come across a can of shoe polish, and you don't even know how to open it, stubborn?

12. And in general, nylon in the USSR was, just the same, strategic material!

13. And you, lazy people, all use the microwave!

14. Well, let's set a new trend?

15. And if your psyche steadfastly endured all the previous points, then this one will become for her "the last straw" ...

Well, don't be in a hurry to throw these little tricks out of the old issues of Science and Life magazine. They will definitely come in handy for you, if only to remember how exciting and funny that time was!

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