The MacGyvers Taking on the Ventilator Shortage

A crowdsourced effort to make more of the life-saving devices, whether from vacuum-cleaner bags, CPAPs, or snorkelling gear. By Tyler Foggatt March 27, 2020 We need more ventilators. covid-19 attacks the lungs; ventilators help you breathe when you’re no longer able to do so on your own. There are around a hundred and seventy thousand

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How ‘MacGyver’ became a verb

For the BBC 27 August 2015 The word “MacGyver” is now in the Oxford Dictionaries. Why has a television series that began in the 1980s made such an impact on the lexicon, asks Jon Kelly. Fixed a broken door handle using a coathanger? You totally MacGyvered it. Did you see

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