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What's the quickest and most effective way to lose weight and get the body of your dreams? Working out, sweating in the gym? How about fixing your eating habits? Adding some food that's essential for boosting your metabolism and skipping all the cheat meals and junk food. Have you ever tried seaweed? That's something your sushi was wrapped in and it turns out to be really healthy. This green ingredient may even help your body lose fat naturally. Let's see, how!

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Sleep plays an important role in your life. An average person spend about 26 years of their life sleeping. But how much do we know about sleep and which of that is actually true? I'm going to debunk some of the common myths about sleep. For example, did you hear that the sound of frying bacon can make you sleepy? Let's see if it's true or not.

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Modern science is getting more and more advanced: human-like robots, cloning, creating new species. How about resurrecting extinct species? Could we, for instance, restore the woolly mammoth to the Arctic tundra and see with our own eyes what this animal looked like? Then all of our beloved Ice Age characters could be brought to life! Would it be possible?

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How does a mechanical watch work? Unlike a quartz watch, it doesn't get its energy from a battery. Then, where does it receive its power from?

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Traveling tips are useful to check out before your next trip. How do you pack luggage or pass travel security fast? And where does your baggage go right after check-in?

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Here's a collection of ordinary items that might be tracking your data and giving it away this very moment. Beware!

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Today, we’re going to look at that airplane-looking thing that once carried the astronauts, their gear, and whatever they’re transporting up to space. It still is the most complicated machine ever built by humans. For illustrative purposes, let’s head back in time to Cape Canaveral, Florida. It's June 8, 2007. Here at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, we’ll follow one of the space shuttles on its mission, to understand how it works.

Launch is the most stressful part of the flight. The goal of Atlantis is orbit. The astronauts are pressed into their seats, watching the clouds zoom past. It’s at this moment that the astronauts experience a “G-force” of about 3. Sounds intense! Actually, it’s less “G’s” than pilots normally experience when they do a loop mid-air. Not exactly a problem for highly trained astronauts. Btw, do you know how austronauts return to Earth? We'll talk about that

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When traveling between work and home on the subway, some of us often find ourselves wondering why it is that the handrail on the escalators moves faster than the steps themselves do. Well, this is not some kind of conspiracy but is in fact completely normal. So how does an escalator work? And why are those steps so steep anyway?

Our story begins in the 1890s – the early days of Coca Cola, Hershey’s Chocolate, and motion pictures! A strange contraption is being built at New York's Coney Island Park. The thing travels along a 25° incline and only goes up 7 ft. Yet spectators back then were amazed by the futuristic Moving Stairs! It was the world's first escalator, and it was just a temporary amusement park attraction!

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Think about it: what good is your computer without the keyboard? Just an overpriced hunk of plastics and metals? Let’s look at that oh-so-important keyboard a little closer. When and how was it invented? Why do you get doubles of some of the keys and not others? And, by the way, why does the keyboard layout start with QWERTY and not with ABCDEF?

Well, at the very beginning of the computer era, you wouldn’t recognize the early models since computers back then used punched cards to input and output data. An early computer programmer needed so many punch cards, it ended up looking like a deck of playing cards! But as computers got more sophisticated, the keyboard needed a lot more keys than just numbers and letters. In the 1980s, IBM took a scientific approach to come up with the perfect keyboard – they arranged a focus group!

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Is holographic gaming possible? And if it is, how close are we to it? From Ping-pong and 84’s Tetris to Nintendo’s classics; from Wolfenstein and Doom to modern-day VR technology. It seems like games aren’t just here for fun, but to push our technology beyond the limits. So what’s next? Will we play games in holographic augmented reality rooms?

While the concept of holographic gaming isn’t at the top of the list of gamers’ expectations, we’re still about to take a new evolutionary step in the gaming world in general. With the new generation of consoles on the horizon, it’s only natural to expect a rise in processing power, better graphics, and smooth gameplay without stutters and slowdowns. But why not bring some new, exciting, and revolutionary ways to play games?

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