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June 29, 2016 Making Charcoal Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. This is because the initial energy consuming steps of combustion have taken place while making the charcoal driving off the volatile components of the wood (such as water and sap). The result is a nearly pure carbon fuel that burns hotter than wood without smoke and with less flame. Charcoal was primarily a metallurgical fuel in ancient times but was sometimes used for cooking too. |
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June 28, 2016 Bats’ Flight Technique Could Lead to Better Drones Long-eared bats are assisted in flight by their ears and body, according to a study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. These novel findings improve our understanding of the bats’ flying technique and could be significant for future development of drones, among other things. |
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| June 23, 2016 Dialogue in Film: How Should Characters Talk? What makes dialogue work? Let's explore the power of dialogue in film and take a look at the offensively named "Dead Parent Test." |
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| June 17, 2016 Words That Have Lost Their Better Halves How come some words only have a grumpy, negative version? Here are a few that used to have happier counterparts, but we stopped using them. Produced for Mental Floss |
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| June 16, 2016 How Is Your Phone Changing You? Should you be worried about your cellphone? |
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| June 15, 2016 Stealth | How Does it Work? |
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| June 14, 2016 How Interpreters Juggle Two Languages at Once Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the consequences may be catastrophic. Given the complexities of language and cultural exchange, how do these epic miscommunications not happen all the time? Ewandro Magalhaes explains how much of the answer lies with the skill and training of interpreters to overcome language barriers. |
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| June 10, 2016 State of Surveillance When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged San Bernardino Terrorist Syed Farook. Meanwhile, journalists and activists are under increasing attack from foreign agents. To find out the government's real capabilities, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden. |
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| June 9, 2016 What To Do About Insomnia Insomnia is in essence a revenge for all the thoughts we forgot to have in the day. |
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| June 7, 2016 Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault Deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, lies the Global Seed Vault. |
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| June 6, 2016 The Beautiful Relationship Between Physics and Jazz Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he's also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics. |
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| June 3, 2016 BULLSHIT! Harry Frankfurt is an American philosopher and author of the New York Times Best Seller "On Bullshit". Although first conceived as an essay over 30 years ago, his theory on bullshit is more relevant than ever before. BULLSHIT! aims to further our understanding of what bullshit is, why there's so much of it, and how it can be a greater enemy to the truth than lies. |
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| June 1, 2016 Harvesting Liberty Harvesting Liberty is a short film that documents visionaries Michael Lewis (of Growing Warriors) and Rebecca Burgess (of Fibershed) as they collaborate to reintroduce industrial hemp to the American landscape. |
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