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From jewelry to cookware and home décor, brass is a staple material used to make some of your favorite goods. While you may handle brass regularly, do you actually know the best way to clean it? In all of its beauty, the chemical properties of brass require special care to maintain shine and keep it clean. "Brass is an alloy made up of various proportions of copper and zinc, and sometimes additional metals," explains Kim Kanary, a certified diamontologist and VP of community development and engagement at JTV. When exposed to air and moisture, oxygen combines with the metal to form an oxide o...

Hyperbole and a Half is one of the best-known blogs around today, and one of the funniest. Hyperbole and a Half, The Book is about 50% material that appears on the blog and about 50% original material. It is all written in the same style -- humorous essays liberally illustrated with very badly-done drawings. (Really bad. But they are also funny, so that's okay). The new essays, by my count, include four about her childhood, two (quite excellent) stories about the dogs, four about negative personality traits, and one about a goose in the house. In general these are as good as what has been p...