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  • How Do You Find Water In The Wild?
    In case you ever get stranded in the wild without an obvious source of fresh water, here are a few things you can do to collect some.
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    6 min
  • What Are Eye Boogers?
    The gunk builds up at the inner corners of our eyes is residue of the stuff the coats and protects our eyeballs all the time. Learn what it’s made of and why it turns to sand overnight.
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    6 min
  • Why Do We Get Morning Breath?
    Every morning we wake up with bad breath. What does bacteria and a lack of saliva have to do with it?
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    4 min
  • Do Animals Laugh?
    It’s no secret that some animal species are highly intelligent – but do they also “get” jokes? Can they laugh? Are laughter and intelligence even related?
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    5 min
  • How Much Does It Cost To Run For President?
    There’s a big difference between running for President and actually winning the election. So how much money will you need to have a decent shot at being Commander-in-Chief?
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    7 min
  • What Would Space Do To The Human Body?
    Space without a suit? You’ll probably die from the lack of pressure in a vacuum. But other extreme hazards won’t help either.
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    6 min
  • Does "Power Dressing" Actually Work?
    Dressing up to feel powerful may have been a fashion fad of the 1980s, but do we still think differently if we wear formal clothes?
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    5 min
  • How Dirty Is Soap?
    It’s good hygiene to wash your hands after touching shared bathroom surfaces. But bars of soap are a shared surface. Does soap really help get you clean?
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    6 min
  • How Does Hair Dye Work?
    Some hair dyes are basically fine-grained paint. But dyes that stick with you for more than a couple weeks physically and chemically change each hair. Learn how with Christian Sager.
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    5 min

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Whether the topic is popcorn or particle physics, you can count on BrainStuff to explore -- and explain -- the everyday science in the world around us.