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Gallium does not exist elementally in nature, it has to be made. Part of the reason why you cannot just dig the stuff out of the ground is that it has an extremely low melting point (~86°F, 30°C). A hot sunny day reduce a piece of the stuff into...
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Following up on our article from a few weeks ago, when we all learned to wash our hands after using the ATM, we’ve now discovered, that food court trays may have more bacteria than gas station toilets. Yum! According to Bob Hancock’s work, after swabbing the food court trays,...
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the largest solar flare released by the sun in four years. Called an X-Flare it’s the strongest types and can disrupt communications and electrical power grids on Earth. This is because solar flares aren’t only burst of energy. They’re also a magnetic pulse...
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A California man is lucky to be alive after doctors found a huge, cancerous tumor with tentacles growing inside him last year. The tumor, which looks like the pods from the sci-fi film “Alien,” was the size of a soccer ball and doctors estimate it was growing inside of...
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Scientists believe they’ve found evidence of a 10th 9th planet orbiting our sun. This new planet is supposedly 4 times the size of Jupiter and should be in orbit, 15000 times farther out than the Earth. While there are no actual photos of it yet, NASA claims that the...
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The highly controversial full body scanners being used at US airports are getting ready to take a more modest view of things. Instead of displaying pictures of people in full naked detail more generic images are being used and red blocks appear over areas where there is a perceived...
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The Moon; Humans will always be fascinated by it. Cavemen likely looked up at it and wondered if they could unhook it from the sky. We’ve written books about it, poems were recited, Duran Duran wrote a song about it being new, on a Monday. We’ve had paintings, documentaries, men...
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So, like most men, you’re going through your midlife crisis, and you’re looking at a sports-bike, a mistress or maybe an Ariel Atom. The problem with all that is that if you’re like me, a middle aged man with less and less hair and more and more belly, you’d...
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Wonder why you buy so much at IKEA? It's because they get you lost in the store, so says architect professor Alan Penn. ...