1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to Brainstuff from stuff works dot com, where smart happens. Hi, 2 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: Am Marshall Brandon, Welcome back for the third installment of 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: our Friday News round up. What's the biggest thing that 4 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: happened this week? From a technology and hype standpoint, it's 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: probably the whole Jeopardy thing and IBM s Watson supercomputer. 6 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: The system has almost three thousand cores and fifteen terabytes 7 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: of RAM, not fifteen gigabytes, fifteen trillion bytes of RAM. 8 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,599 Speaker 1: That gives it about two thousand times the power of 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: today's one thousand dollar desktop machine that you might get 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: at best Buy or someplace like that. So how did 11 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: Watson answer all these questions on Jeopardy? According to IBM, 12 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: they fed Watson one terabyte of plain text information. So 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: they fed it the entire English version of Wikipedia, which 14 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: is something like seventeen million articles and fourteen gigabytes of 15 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: text information. They also fed it another entire encyclopedia, a 16 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: whole dictionary, a fasaurus, the Internet movie database, and lots 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: and lots of other stuff. They didn't have to structure 18 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: that data. It all went in as plain text, so 19 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: it wasn't like human being sat there and made little 20 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: knowledge structures out of it or something like that. This 21 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: plane text went in and that's what Watson used when 22 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: he was answering these questions because they used plain text. 23 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: What they're hoping is that this technology can be used 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: to create much better question answering systems in the real 25 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: world in the future, say for a call center or 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: for doctors to used with medical information or something like that. 27 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: You could imagine Google one day being able to really 28 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: answer any question you ask it in plain English with 29 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: a good solid answer, and that would be a nice thing. Flip. 30 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: Speaking of supercomputers, the Department of Energy is hoping to 31 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: get a hundred and twenty six million dollars to spend 32 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: on the first excess scale supercomputer. This would be a 33 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: major accomplishment since the fastest supercomputers today are in the 34 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: one pedal flop range. A pedal flop is a quadrillion 35 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: floating point operations per second, which is a thousand trillion 36 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: floating point operations and x a flop would be a 37 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,839 Speaker 1: thousand times faster than a pedal flop or a quintillion 38 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: floating point operations per second. So for comparison, it's thought 39 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: that the human brain the one that's sitting inside your 40 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: head right now is doing about ten pedal flops. Maybe 41 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: they're organized really well. You know, you have a vision 42 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: processor and a language processor, and I don't know a 43 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber processor if you're a teenager. But we are 44 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: getting there in terms of raw computing power to the 45 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: point where you could simulate a brain in theory blip. 46 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: So how long will it be until you have a 47 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: pedal flop in your pocket? We got a little closer 48 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,519 Speaker 1: this week when in Video announced its new call L 49 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,399 Speaker 1: four core Tegra processor. Supposedly, we will see four cores 50 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: in tablets and smartphones by the end of this summer, 51 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: say August of two thousand eleven. Plus. This chip includes 52 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: a twelve core graphics card on the chip as well, 53 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: and it uses just two watts or so. It's an 54 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: amazing accomplishment considering the same thing in a typical laptop 55 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: consumes about fifty watts. Right now, it means incredible computing 56 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: power and incredible battery life. In Video demonstrated it displaying 57 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: movies on a four d P display, not a ten 58 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: a DP display, a fourteen DP display, which is two thousand, 59 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: five hundred sixty pixels wide, and one was in pixels high. 60 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: That's almost twice as many pixels as HDTV, and it's 61 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: pretty common now to find high end monitors with that 62 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: many pixels. So in theory, you can get a tablet 63 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: computer in August, plug it into your giant p monitor, 64 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: and watch movies in the highest resolution ever Blip. I 65 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: did a podcast a couple of weeks ago where I 66 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: talked about the toy helicopter I bought for the kids. 67 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: It can fly for about seven minutes and it's very 68 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: precise when you're controlling it with the remote control. This week, 69 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: darpest showed off its new spy Hummingbird. It flies and 70 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 1: looks a lot like a hummingbird. Plus it has a 71 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: wireless video camera and microphone on board, so it can 72 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: fly land and then send an audio and video feed 73 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: to whoever wants to look at it. You can probably 74 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: expect to see one of these perched in a tree 75 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: in your yard in the near future. If you want 76 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: to see a video of this hummingbird flight, type interesting, 77 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: reading number six eighty nine into Google Blip. Scientists have 78 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 1: discovered a species of multicellular life that can survive in space, 79 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: not in a spaceship, but in actual space, including the 80 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: hard vacuum, the cosmic rays, the extreme temperature changes, and 81 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,559 Speaker 1: all the rest. The species is called a water bear. 82 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: A typical water bear is about a millimeter long. When 83 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: it's an adult, it has eight legs and a hard 84 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: outer shell. They don't mind being completely dried out, and 85 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: then they come back to life when you put them 86 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: in water. Several thousand water bears were sent into orbit 87 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 1: for ten days, and when they were put into water, 88 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: some of them were still alive and they were able 89 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: to reproduce. None of them became a million times larger 90 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: and started to rampage a nearby city. Though unfortunately, you 91 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 1: might have to send something else into space to get 92 00:05:54,600 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: the Godzilla effect blip. Supposedly, the NPR show called This 93 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: American Life is on the verge of cracking the secret 94 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: recipe for Coca cola, and this recipe is now circulating 95 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: on the internet. Everything appears to be known except for 96 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: one super secret ingredient called seven X, which This American 97 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: Life is trying to crack as well. So what's in coke? 98 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: To make five gallons of syrup? You start with two 99 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: and a half gallons of water and thirty pounds of sugar. 100 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: Then you put in things like caffeine, lime juice, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon, 101 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: and orange oil, and even a cup of alcohol. If 102 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: you go to Interesting Reading number six eighty eight, you 103 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: can find the details of the recipe. But here's the thing. 104 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: I went to the grocery store this week and a 105 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: two lead bottle of coke is only cents. It's probably 106 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: easier to just buy it blip. Do you want to 107 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: get rid of a cold? I did a blog post 108 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: this week about one way to do it, using antihistamine 109 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: and mucus thinner on day one. The idea is that 110 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: if you see a cold coming on, like you start 111 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: to get that scratchy throat and the running nose and 112 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: the sneezing or whatever on that very first day, if 113 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: you hit it with antihistamines and mucus thinner and blowing 114 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: your nose a lot and using warm compresses, you can 115 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: get a lot of the crud out and that takes 116 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: a lot of the virus particles with it. Now science 117 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: has proven that there's another thing you can do to 118 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: stop colds, and this really works according to research, it's zinc. 119 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: They looked across dozens of studies, and they determined that 120 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: if you suck on zinc lozenges on day one, it 121 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: really does help to shorten the duration of the cold. 122 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: It might cut the duration in half, for example, and 123 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: it cuts way down on the cough part of the cold. Blip. 124 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: Colds can make you miserable, but science demonstrated another way 125 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: to bring on misery this week. It's Facebook. The more 126 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: Face Book friends you have supposedly the worst this Facebook 127 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: effect gets, according to tech Gui dot net quote. A 128 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: study from the psychology department of Edinburgh Napier University concludes 129 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: that all in all, the negative effects from being on 130 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: Facebook are outweighed by the benefits of staying in touch 131 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: with friends and family end quote. Plus. A new Jersey 132 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: cop recommended this week that if you're a parent, you 133 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: need to steal your kids Facebook password to keep track 134 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: of what they're doing on Facebook. If that wouldn't make 135 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: you miserable, I don't know what would. You can look 136 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: up interesting reading number six eight for details. Blip. China 137 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 1: is gearing up to make nuclear power from thorium. I've 138 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: written a fair amount about thorium power on the blog 139 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 1: because it's theoretically going to have a lot of advantages 140 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: over uranium power if you can get the bugs worked out. 141 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: Thorium is plentiful and it doesn't produce much high level 142 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: nuclear waste at all, meaning that no rogue nations are 143 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: going to be producing nuclear bombs out of a thorium 144 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: power plant. Plus the power plants could be a lot 145 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: smaller than a typical uranium power plant. But the US 146 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: and Canada have largely ignored thorium completely. They aren't looking 147 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: at it really at all. If China can make it work, 148 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: it would bring in a new era of cheap power 149 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: without the carbon emissions of coal, and that would be 150 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: a big deal in China. Blip. You may have heard 151 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: of thermoelectric generators. They turn heat directly into electricity. The 152 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: most famous thermoelectric generators in the universe are on the 153 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: Voyager spacecraft. Here, they take decaying plutonium to generate heat, 154 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: and the thermo electric generator makes electricity from that heat 155 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: for decades. That's why these Voyager spacecraft were able to 156 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: go off like I think they launched in the seventies 157 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: and they're still transmitting little bits of data today. Plutonium 158 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: has a half life of eighty seven years. I think, 159 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: so you can make a radio active thermoelectric generator that 160 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: has a really, really long lifespan. Well, here on Earth, 161 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: it'd be great to have thermo electric generators as well. 162 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: For example, you might hook one up to your hot 163 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: exhaust pipe and be able to generate electricity without having 164 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: to have an alternator that's sucking up engine power. That 165 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: would be a really nice way to increase fuel efficiency, 166 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: but we haven't had materials that generate enough electricity from 167 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: heat to make that practical. This week, scientists announced that 168 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: they have created a new material for thermo electric generators 169 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: that's better at generating electricity. So in theory, if they 170 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: can bring this to market, we could see all kinds 171 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: of interesting ways to generate power from waste heat blip. 172 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: NASA announced its design for a manned deep space vehicle 173 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: this week. This might be the kind of craft, for example, 174 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: to take people to Mars or maybe even to Jupiter. 175 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: It comes complete with a giant inflatable centrifuge to simulate gravity, 176 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: huge storage areas for food and water, living hoarders, robot arms, 177 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: landing craft, and so on. There are pictures of it 178 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 1: on the brain Stuff blog if you're interested. If you 179 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: type brain Stuff m M s e V, that's M 180 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: M s EV into Google, you can find the blog post. 181 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: Mm s EV stands for multimission space Exploration Vehicle. One 182 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: of the interesting things about it is that it's expandable, 183 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: so you could have a short version of it for 184 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: a Moon mission, and then make it much longer if 185 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: you need to go to Mars or Jupiter blip. Speaking 186 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: of NASA, they announced this week the possibility of a 187 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: gig enormous planet way out beyond Pluto in the ort Cloud. 188 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: They think it might be there because it might explain 189 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: why comments from the ort cloud get deflected towards the Sun. 190 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: It would need to be a out four times bigger 191 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 1: than Jupiter if it would were to really exist out there. 192 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: Other scientists think the idea of such a huge planet 193 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: as nuts. If you google Interesting Reading number six eight seven, 194 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: you can read about the controversy blip. The Mars five 195 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: hundred mission landed on Mars this week. You may recall 196 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: that this is a big experiment that locks six people 197 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: in a large wooden spacecraft simulator sitting on the ground 198 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: in Russia. They go through all the motions of a 199 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: real Mars flight, including the isolation, the transmission delays, the 200 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: interpersonal relationship messes, and so on. Imagine being cooped up 201 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: with six people in an RV for more than a year, 202 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: and you kind of get the idea of what it 203 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: would be like on this mission. This week, three members 204 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: of the mission you know in simulation, descended down onto 205 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: Mars and got to walk around on simulated Martian soil 206 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: collecting samples. It's called the Mars five hundred thing because 207 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: the whole simulation is going to take five twenty days 208 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: to see, like the trip out and then the landing 209 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: and then the trip back. They launched back on June 210 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: three of two thousand ten. Blip. And finally, you may 211 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: have heard that drug smugglers have used all kinds of 212 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: tricks to bring drugs into the United States. They have 213 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: people swallow the drugs, They put them inside the tires 214 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: of trucks, they fly them in private airplanes. They tunnel 215 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: between Mexico and the United States with great, big long 216 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: tunnels with little railroads inside of them. They've tried all 217 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. There have also been some small submarines built, 218 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: but this week the most amazing of the Narco submarine surfaced. 219 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: It was captured in Colombia. It's a hundred feet long 220 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: and it could hold eight tons of cocaine. There are 221 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: photos of it. If you're interested, go to Interesting Reading 222 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: number six eight seven. So until next time, my Marshall 223 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: brain have a great weekend. For more on this and 224 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: thousands of other topics, does that how stuffworks dot com 225 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: and don't forget to check out the brain stuff blog 226 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: on the house stuff works dot com home page. You 227 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 1: can also follow brain stuff on Facebook or Twitter at 228 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: brain stuff h s W. The House Stuff Works iPhone 229 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: app has arrived. Download it today on iTunes.