WEBVTT - Marshall Brain's News Roundup: April 22nd, 2011

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to brain Stuff from house Stuff Works dot com

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<v Speaker 1>where smart happens. Hi Am Marshall Brain and welcome did

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

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<v Speaker 1>I should probably mention something about the Ducan diet. There

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<v Speaker 1>was a huge amount of traffic that came into the

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<v Speaker 1>blogs this week because Dr Ducan released his book in

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<v Speaker 1>the United States this week. There was a huge publicity

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<v Speaker 1>hit around the book, so lots of people in the

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<v Speaker 1>United States are now thinking about the Ducan diet. As

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<v Speaker 1>you may know, I started the Ducan Diet almost exactly

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<v Speaker 1>a year ago and was able to lose fifty two

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<v Speaker 1>pounds in about six months while on this diet, and

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

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<v Speaker 1>you can give this diet a look at least take

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<v Speaker 1>a look at it because it has been successful for

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people in France and Britain in other

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<v Speaker 1>countries around the world, so we know it works at

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<v Speaker 1>least for some people. So in a nutshell, this is

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<v Speaker 1>a low carb diet. You can eat all the protein

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<v Speaker 1>and vegetables you like, and while on the diet you

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<v Speaker 1>shun all carbs. The advantage of that lack of carbs

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<v Speaker 1>in your diet is that it tends to eliminate hunger

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<v Speaker 1>pangs and food cravings, and that tends to make weight

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<v Speaker 1>loss a lot easier. The diet does require some discipline.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to be able to say no to all carbohydrates.

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<v Speaker 1>And that means that, for example, if you walk into

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<v Speaker 1>a convenience store and you see you know, candy or

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<v Speaker 1>candy bars, or ice cream or soda or something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Or if you're at a party and you see potato

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<v Speaker 1>chips or slices of pizza, or you know the other

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<v Speaker 1>things you might see at a party, or and this

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<v Speaker 1>is really hard if you're in the kitchen and you

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<v Speaker 1>have kids and you see goldfish or cheese it's or

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<v Speaker 1>potato chips or you know whatever you're feeding your kid,

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<v Speaker 1>gummy bears, you know, sitting on the counter. You have

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<v Speaker 1>to be able to look at that and say, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not going to eat those carbohydrates. But the diet does

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<v Speaker 1>have a safety valve and that anytime you get hungry

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<v Speaker 1>or tempted, you can eat all the protein you like.

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<v Speaker 1>And protein here is going to mean things like meats

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<v Speaker 1>and cottage cheese and tofu and plain yogurt things where

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<v Speaker 1>you know there are no carbs or significant source of

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

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<v Speaker 1>You basically just if you get hungry, you eat protein

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<v Speaker 1>or vegetables and you're good to go. So if this

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<v Speaker 1>sounds like something you'd like to try, or if you'd

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<v Speaker 1>like more information, you can google how the Ducan diet

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

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<v Speaker 1>And I did a complete daily diary through the six

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<v Speaker 1>months where I was in phase two of this diet,

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<v Speaker 1>and you can see, you know, you can see first

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<v Speaker 1>that it worked for me, and you can also see

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<v Speaker 1>that I was not the very best diet or as

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

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<v Speaker 1>So the other thing that caused a huge uproar this

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<v Speaker 1>week is the fact that the iPhone and the three

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<v Speaker 1>g iPad from Apple are tracking user location coordinates in

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<v Speaker 1>a hidden file. This file is not encrypted, and it

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<v Speaker 1>also gets copied to iTunes on your PC when the

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<v Speaker 1>device backs itself up. An application has been developed that

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<v Speaker 1>plots all the data on a map, and it's possible

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<v Speaker 1>to see everywhere your phone and you therefore have been

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<v Speaker 1>for the last year or so from a novelty standpoint,

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<v Speaker 1>the maps are pretty interesting, but lots of people don't

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<v Speaker 1>like the privacy implications. Congress is getting involved, privacy advocates

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<v Speaker 1>are getting involved, and so on. One funny thing about

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<v Speaker 1>the whole episode is that this file, this coordinate tracking

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<v Speaker 1>file that Apple has has been around for a long

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<v Speaker 1>time and other people have talked about it, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>never exploded into the public consciousness like this. If you

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<v Speaker 1>were one of the people who is talking about this

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<v Speaker 1>last year and being ignored, you're probably pretty miffed at

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<v Speaker 1>this point. Anyway, if you google brain stuff iPhone uproar,

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<v Speaker 1>you can get details. You can see the application that

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<v Speaker 1>maps out the coordinates. You can see uh an interview

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<v Speaker 1>with the people who announced this thing, and and so on.

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<v Speaker 1>It's pretty interesting. One thing that amazed me this week

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<v Speaker 1>is something called graphing super paper that came out of Australia.

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<v Speaker 1>It's made by taking layers of graphing that are derived

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<v Speaker 1>from graphite and once it's formed into the paper, it's

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly strong in light. According to the article, it has

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<v Speaker 1>one six the way of steel but ten times the

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<v Speaker 1>tensile strength. If you can figure out how to make

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<v Speaker 1>graphing in large quantities, or somebody can figure that out.

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<v Speaker 1>This material is going to take off and have a

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<v Speaker 1>big effect on just about anything we manufacture in human society.

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, if you google Interesting Reading number seven thirty five,

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<v Speaker 1>you can learn more about graphine super paper. Also in

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting Reading seven thirty five, there's an article entitled five

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<v Speaker 1>bad ideas humanity is sticking with out of habit. These

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<v Speaker 1>are things that we use on a daily basis that really,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, in in common terms, make no sense because

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

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<v Speaker 1>and the most obvious one, is the Corty keyboard, the

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<v Speaker 1>keyboard arrangement that's on nearly every keyboard you see in

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<v Speaker 1>in computers and cell phones and so on. Another is

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<v Speaker 1>the Imperial measurement system that we use in the United

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<v Speaker 1>States in defiance to nearly the rest of the entire world,

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<v Speaker 1>which is on the metric system. One thing that they

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<v Speaker 1>don't mention is the calendar. If you think about how

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<v Speaker 1>ridiculous our calendar is. You know, some months have thirty

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<v Speaker 1>one day, some have thirty. Then there's one with twenty

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<v Speaker 1>eight and sometimes twenty nine, and it's just that is

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<v Speaker 1>really a silly system to use to chop up the days.

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<v Speaker 1>Every year, the days of the week fall on different dates,

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<v Speaker 1>and you can't use any kind of calculations with the

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<v Speaker 1>dates and so on, and it's just nuts. Instead, we

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<v Speaker 1>could have thirteen twenty eight day months in a year

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<v Speaker 1>and then there'd be one day left over, or in

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<v Speaker 1>leap years, two days left over at the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the year for some kind of big party. That's not

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

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<v Speaker 1>you google Interesting Reading seven thirty five you can see

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<v Speaker 1>the details. Why do fake phone numbers start with five

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<v Speaker 1>five five on things like television shows are in the movies?

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<v Speaker 1>This question is answered in Interesting Reading seven thirty four

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<v Speaker 1>sort of. It turns out that no one really knows

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<v Speaker 1>for sure where the five five five prefects started, but

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<v Speaker 1>it's been around an incredibly long time, and it's like

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<v Speaker 1>the whole industry just standardized on it. It seems like

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<v Speaker 1>one of those things that built up inertia over time,

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<v Speaker 1>and it is a courtesy of Hollywood in the TV

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<v Speaker 1>industry to avoid prank calls to people if they were

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<v Speaker 1>to use real phone numbers. The funny thing mentioned in

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<v Speaker 1>the article is that there was an effort in the

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen nineties to make five five five numbers a reality.

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<v Speaker 1>Had this system been implemented, there would have been nine thousand,

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<v Speaker 1>nine hundred five five five numbers where anywhere in the

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<v Speaker 1>country you would have been able to dial a single

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<v Speaker 1>seven digit number without an area code of any kind

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<v Speaker 1>and gotten connected to somebody. One hundred numbers were reserved

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<v Speaker 1>for use in TV shows and movies, but the rest

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<v Speaker 1>would have worked in this seven digit way. Actually, it

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<v Speaker 1>sounds like a pretty cool idea, but the problem is

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<v Speaker 1>that the phone companies didn't really like the idea and

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<v Speaker 1>it hasn't been implemented uniformly. You can learn more by

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<v Speaker 1>dialing five five five O one two three or googling

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<v Speaker 1>interesting reading number seven thirty four. Do you get a

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<v Speaker 1>headache when you watch a three D movie? Apparently about

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<v Speaker 1>ten percent to the population, or roughly thirty million people

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<v Speaker 1>in the United States suffer from this problem. Since many

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<v Speaker 1>movies are now available only in three D when they

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<v Speaker 1>appear in theaters, what are these people who get headaches

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<v Speaker 1>going to do? It turns out that you can now

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<v Speaker 1>buy two D glasses. These two D glasses take a

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<v Speaker 1>three D movie and turn it into a two D

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<v Speaker 1>movie to eliminate headaches. The three D glasses that you

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<v Speaker 1>use in a movie theater use polarized filters. One lens

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<v Speaker 1>orients the filter horizontally and the other vertically, so each

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<v Speaker 1>eye receives a different image. The two images merged together

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<v Speaker 1>in your brain to create the three D effect. To

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<v Speaker 1>create these new two D glasses, the same filter is

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<v Speaker 1>used in both lenses, so both eyes see the same image.

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<v Speaker 1>No more three D effect means no more headaches for

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<v Speaker 1>people who get them. What an incredibly simple solution. If

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<v Speaker 1>you google brain stuff two D glasses, you can get

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<v Speaker 1>details and watch a video about a guy who actually

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<v Speaker 1>lead came up with this idea and turned it into

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<v Speaker 1>a real product. If you fall into the category of

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<v Speaker 1>a poor college student, or if you simply are frugal

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<v Speaker 1>and hoping to cut your food bills, then you know

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<v Speaker 1>that ramen noodles are a cheap and readily available food source.

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<v Speaker 1>Plus they cook incredibly quickly. So there's an article this

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<v Speaker 1>week called the Top five Ramen Hacks that shows how

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

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<v Speaker 1>You boil the noodles normally add a handful of frozen

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<v Speaker 1>peas while they're cooking, and then drain. You add an

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<v Speaker 1>egg and mix it until the egg is cooked. That

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<v Speaker 1>idea works just as well with rice. By the way,

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<v Speaker 1>I've actually tried it with rice and it it works good.

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<v Speaker 1>And sometimes if you buy rice in bulk, it's less

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<v Speaker 1>expensive than ramen noodles. If you google interesting Reading number

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<v Speaker 1>seven thirty three, you can find four more recipes for

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<v Speaker 1>turning ramen noodles into a gourmet dish speak king of cooking.

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<v Speaker 1>It seems more and more likely with each passing day

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<v Speaker 1>that we are cooking our planet with global warming? What

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<v Speaker 1>can we do? An article entitled ten crazy ideas to

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<v Speaker 1>combat climate change that just might work offers several thoughts.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of these ideas have been around for a while,

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<v Speaker 1>like space umbrellas and ocean seeding with iron. Others seem

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly simple, like replacing black roofs with white roofs, or

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<v Speaker 1>increasing cloud cover by spraying an ocean mist into the sky.

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<v Speaker 1>And then there's the idea of synthetic trees. C O

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<v Speaker 1>two is captured out of the air with these man

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<v Speaker 1>made trees, and the capture process happens with a chemical reaction. Somehow,

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<v Speaker 1>it seems like it would be a lot easier to

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<v Speaker 1>simply stop burning fossil fuels. But if that can't happen,

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<v Speaker 1>and apparently it really cannot happen, since it hasn't happened

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<v Speaker 1>for decades, then these ideas offer some alternatives. See Interesting

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

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<v Speaker 1>gigantic new super organism with social intelligence is devouring the Titanic.

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<v Speaker 1>How is it possible to not click on that headline?

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<v Speaker 1>The basic idea is that the steel and the Titanic,

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<v Speaker 1>which lies in near freezing oxygen pour water over a

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<v Speaker 1>mile deep, is being eaten by extreme aphile bacteria. They

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<v Speaker 1>form rust sickles with that steel as they process it,

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<v Speaker 1>and they seem to have some sort of communication system

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<v Speaker 1>to coordinate activities. The wreck is nearly a century old,

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<v Speaker 1>and it won't be around for that much longer, because

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<v Speaker 1>eventually the bacteria will turn all of the steel into

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<v Speaker 1>this rusty dust. If you google Interesting Reading seven thirty two,

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<v Speaker 1>you can read this article and see the research that's

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<v Speaker 1>being done to figure out how these bacteria live and intercommunicate.

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<v Speaker 1>Lots of people are now using smartphones, either apples, iPhones

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<v Speaker 1>or Android phones. How are the sales of these phones

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<v Speaker 1>affecting the gadget ecosystem. This question is explored by an

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<v Speaker 1>article entitled ten things killed off by the smartphone. Basically,

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

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<v Speaker 1>people simply use the equivalent functionality that they find for

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<v Speaker 1>free in their smartphones. The victim gadgets include MP three players,

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<v Speaker 1>gps is, digital cameras, and wrist watches, among others. You

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<v Speaker 1>can see all ten items by googling Interesting Reading number

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<v Speaker 1>seven thirty one. There's also an article in Interesting Reading

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<v Speaker 1>seven thirty three on Android's voice recognition capabilities, and that

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<v Speaker 1>shows a completely new capability made possible by smartphones. Basically,

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<v Speaker 1>you can take your Android phone and you can say

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<v Speaker 1>almost anything to it, and it's speech recognition capabilities can

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<v Speaker 1>understand what you say with remarkable act received. It's made

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<v Speaker 1>possible by cloud computing, where what you say get sent

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<v Speaker 1>to Google servers in the in the data center somewhere

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<v Speaker 1>and it's analyzed there and then the results are sent

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<v Speaker 1>back to your phone. So it's not like their software

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<v Speaker 1>running on your phone that's uh doing the speech recognition.

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<v Speaker 1>It's software in a giant server farm. The servers take

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<v Speaker 1>advantage of millions and millions of voice samples, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>what gives this thing it's uncanny accuracy, even with people

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<v Speaker 1>who have accidents. It's like a revolution and speech recognition,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's made possible by Google's ability to handle massive

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<v Speaker 1>amounts of data. If you google interesting reading number seven

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<v Speaker 1>thirty three, you can get details. Imagine having a construction

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<v Speaker 1>toy like legos or connects, but the pieces are adult

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<v Speaker 1>size and have adult strength, so you can build real

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<v Speaker 1>stuff like bicycles with the pieces and then actually ride

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<v Speaker 1>the bike that you built. That's the idea with a

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<v Speaker 1>new construction toy that is seen this week. Even if

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<v Speaker 1>this company doesn't do it itself, it seems like some

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<v Speaker 1>company has to do it. Think about how cool it

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<v Speaker 1>would be to build something like a bicycle or a

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<v Speaker 1>real treehouse and then take it apart and build something else.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just too good an idea. If you google brain

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<v Speaker 1>stuff erector set, you can see images of this new

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<v Speaker 1>prototype toy in action. And finally, there is the flying

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<v Speaker 1>nano plane idea. The name of the idea is flying

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<v Speaker 1>nano And here we have a carbon fiber airplane that

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<v Speaker 1>is incredibly light, only about a hundred fifty pounds. And

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<v Speaker 1>because it's so light, you do not need a license

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<v Speaker 1>to operate it. You don't have to go get pilot

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<v Speaker 1>lessons and learn how to operate instruments and so on.

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<v Speaker 1>It falls into a category where you don't need a license,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's priced at about forty dollars. Supposedly it is

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<v Speaker 1>not exactly cheap, but that's within the reach of many people.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the price of a kind of expensive automo beal.

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<v Speaker 1>It allows one person to take to the air in style.

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<v Speaker 1>Because this plane looks incredibly interesting. It has a very

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<v Speaker 1>interesting wing design and the wings are only about fifteen

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<v Speaker 1>feet wide. The only catch is that this plane has

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<v Speaker 1>no landing gear. You have to use a lake to

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<v Speaker 1>take off in land. This is what the inventor has

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<v Speaker 1>proposed anyway, and supposedly the real thing will be on

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<v Speaker 1>sale later this year. Once you know the manufacturing details,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll get worked out. If you google brain stuff flying

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<v Speaker 1>Nano you can get details. That article points out that

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<v Speaker 1>if you like the idea of cheap license free flying,

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<v Speaker 1>and you don't have forty dollars, and maybe you'd like

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<v Speaker 1>to have some landing gear. You could consider a powered

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<v Speaker 1>paraplane instead. These flying machines use a parachute like fabric

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<v Speaker 1>wing for lift and a small propeller for power. They

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<v Speaker 1>can be very inexpensive at roughly fifteen thousand dollars. So

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