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Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from house Stuff Works dot com

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Speaker 1: where smart happens. Hi Am Marshall Brain and welcome did

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Speaker 1: this week's Friday news round up. To start off with,

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Speaker 1: I should probably mention something about the Ducan diet. There

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Speaker 1: was a huge amount of traffic that came into the

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Speaker 1: blogs this week because Dr Ducan released his book in

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Speaker 1: the United States this week. There was a huge publicity

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Speaker 1: hit around the book, so lots of people in the

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Speaker 1: United States are now thinking about the Ducan diet. As

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Speaker 1: you may know, I started the Ducan Diet almost exactly

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Speaker 1: a year ago and was able to lose fifty two

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Speaker 1: pounds in about six months while on this diet, and

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Speaker 1: that made a big difference in my life. If you're overweight,

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Speaker 1: you can give this diet a look at least take

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Speaker 1: a look at it because it has been successful for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in France and Britain in other

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Speaker 1: countries around the world, so we know it works at

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Speaker 1: least for some people. So in a nutshell, this is

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Speaker 1: a low carb diet. You can eat all the protein

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Speaker 1: and vegetables you like, and while on the diet you

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Speaker 1: shun all carbs. The advantage of that lack of carbs

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Speaker 1: in your diet is that it tends to eliminate hunger

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Speaker 1: pangs and food cravings, and that tends to make weight

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Speaker 1: loss a lot easier. The diet does require some discipline.

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Speaker 1: You have to be able to say no to all carbohydrates.

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Speaker 1: And that means that, for example, if you walk into

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Speaker 1: a convenience store and you see you know, candy or

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Speaker 1: candy bars, or ice cream or soda or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Or if you're at a party and you see potato

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Speaker 1: chips or slices of pizza, or you know the other

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Speaker 1: things you might see at a party, or and this

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Speaker 1: is really hard if you're in the kitchen and you

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Speaker 1: have kids and you see goldfish or cheese it's or

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Speaker 1: potato chips or you know whatever you're feeding your kid,

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Speaker 1: gummy bears, you know, sitting on the counter. You have

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Speaker 1: to be able to look at that and say, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to eat those carbohydrates. But the diet does

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Speaker 1: have a safety valve and that anytime you get hungry

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Speaker 1: or tempted, you can eat all the protein you like.

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Speaker 1: And protein here is going to mean things like meats

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Speaker 1: and cottage cheese and tofu and plain yogurt things where

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Speaker 1: you know there are no carbs or significant source of

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Speaker 1: carbs in the food. There's no calorie counting on this diet.

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Speaker 1: You basically just if you get hungry, you eat protein

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Speaker 1: or vegetables and you're good to go. So if this

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Speaker 1: sounds like something you'd like to try, or if you'd

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Speaker 1: like more information, you can google how the Ducan diet

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Speaker 1: works and you'll find an article I've written about it.

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Speaker 1: And I did a complete daily diary through the six

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Speaker 1: months where I was in phase two of this diet,

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Speaker 1: and you can see, you know, you can see first

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Speaker 1: that it worked for me, and you can also see

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Speaker 1: that I was not the very best diet or as

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Speaker 1: in terms of discipline, and it's still worked for me.

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Speaker 1: So the other thing that caused a huge uproar this

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Speaker 1: week is the fact that the iPhone and the three

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Speaker 1: g iPad from Apple are tracking user location coordinates in

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Speaker 1: a hidden file. This file is not encrypted, and it

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Speaker 1: also gets copied to iTunes on your PC when the

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Speaker 1: device backs itself up. An application has been developed that

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Speaker 1: plots all the data on a map, and it's possible

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Speaker 1: to see everywhere your phone and you therefore have been

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Speaker 1: for the last year or so from a novelty standpoint,

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Speaker 1: the maps are pretty interesting, but lots of people don't

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Speaker 1: like the privacy implications. Congress is getting involved, privacy advocates

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Speaker 1: the whole episode is that this file, this coordinate tracking

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Speaker 1: file that Apple has has been around for a long

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Speaker 1: time and other people have talked about it, but it's

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Speaker 1: last year and being ignored, you're probably pretty miffed at

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Speaker 1: this point. Anyway, if you google brain stuff iPhone uproar,

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Speaker 1: you can get details. You can see the application that

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Speaker 1: It's made by taking layers of graphing that are derived

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Speaker 1: incredibly strong in light. According to the article, it has

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Speaker 1: big effect on just about anything we manufacture in human society.

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Speaker 1: Right now, if you google Interesting Reading number seven thirty five,

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Speaker 1: you can learn more about graphine super paper. Also in

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Speaker 1: Interesting Reading seven thirty five, there's an article entitled five

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Speaker 1: bad ideas humanity is sticking with out of habit. These

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Speaker 1: you know, in in common terms, make no sense because

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Speaker 1: they're incredibly inefficient or you know, silly. The first one,

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Speaker 1: and the most obvious one, is the Corty keyboard, the

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Speaker 1: in computers and cell phones and so on. Another is

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Speaker 1: the Imperial measurement system that we use in the United

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Speaker 1: States in defiance to nearly the rest of the entire world,

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Speaker 1: which is on the metric system. One thing that they

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Speaker 1: ridiculous our calendar is. You know, some months have thirty

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Speaker 1: eight and sometimes twenty nine, and it's just that is

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Speaker 1: really a silly system to use to chop up the days.

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Speaker 1: Every year, the days of the week fall on different dates,

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Speaker 1: the year for some kind of big party. That's not

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Speaker 1: likely to change either. It's an interesting article, though if

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Speaker 1: you google Interesting Reading seven thirty five you can see

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Speaker 1: the details. Why do fake phone numbers start with five

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Speaker 1: five five on things like television shows are in the movies?

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Speaker 1: sort of. It turns out that no one really knows

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Speaker 1: for sure where the five five five prefects started, but

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Speaker 1: the whole industry just standardized on it. It seems like

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Speaker 1: to use real phone numbers. The funny thing mentioned in

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineties to make five five five numbers a reality.

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Speaker 1: Had this system been implemented, there would have been nine thousand,

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Speaker 1: interesting reading number seven thirty four. Do you get a

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Speaker 1: movies are now available only in three D when they

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Speaker 1: going to do? It turns out that you can now

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Speaker 1: buy two D glasses. These two D glasses take a

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Speaker 1: people who get them. What an incredibly simple solution. If

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Speaker 1: you google brain stuff two D glasses, you can get

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Speaker 1: and hoping to cut your food bills, then you know

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Speaker 1: that ramen noodles are a cheap and readily available food source.

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Speaker 1: Plus they cook incredibly quickly. So there's an article this

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Speaker 1: to turn mundane ramen noodles into gourmet fair Here's one example.

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Speaker 1: You boil the noodles normally add a handful of frozen

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Speaker 1: expensive than ramen noodles. If you google interesting Reading number

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Speaker 1: It seems more and more likely with each passing day

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Speaker 1: can we do? An article entitled ten crazy ideas to

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Speaker 1: Some of these ideas have been around for a while,

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Speaker 1: like space umbrellas and ocean seeding with iron. Others seem

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Speaker 1: And then there's the idea of synthetic trees. C O

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Speaker 1: for decades, then these ideas offer some alternatives. See Interesting

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Speaker 1: Reading number seven thirty two for details. Here's a headline,

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Speaker 1: The basic idea is that the steel and the Titanic,

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Speaker 1: which lies in near freezing oxygen pour water over a

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Speaker 1: form rust sickles with that steel as they process it,

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Speaker 1: this rusty dust. If you google Interesting Reading seven thirty two,

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Speaker 1: Lots of people are now using smartphones, either apples, iPhones

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Speaker 1: or Android phones. How are the sales of these phones

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Speaker 1: affecting the gadget ecosystem. This question is explored by an

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Speaker 1: article entitled ten things killed off by the smartphone. Basically,

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Speaker 1: what's happening is that instead of owning five or six gadgets,

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Speaker 1: people simply use the equivalent functionality that they find for

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