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Women Are Colder Than Men
The biggest factor in the different perceptions of temperature between men and women is that women are, in fact, just warmer to begin with. A study done by the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1992 looked at core… Read More ›
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Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his family’s slave trade past
A wealthy Tory MP is facing demands to pay reparations for his family’s part in the Caribbean slave trade after the Observer revealed that he now controls the plantation where his ancestors created the first slave-worked sugar plantation in the… Read More ›
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Newsdrop
Newsdrop is about making news quick to read by discarding irrelevant bits of information. Basic information can even be read straight off the news feed. Tapping on summaries expands them into optimized articles. These articles are deliberately structured to efficiently… Read More ›
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McGST Podcast Episode 38 (What is music to different people? With Tom Munch)
Myself and Tom discuss a whole host of music-related topics including the following- What do people seek in new music? What is new music that you instantly liked and why? Was it the situation in which you heard it or… Read More ›
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The “Social Mask”
The cheek thermometer on the Social Mask provides real-time readouts for all to see, allowing others to steer clear if the wearer has a fever. The biosensors can also monitor the presence of germs and other pollutants in the air…. Read More ›
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Why do I wake up at the same time every night?
“Nobody sleeps through the night,” he says. “This goes back to our caveman days where one would wake up, scan the environment, make sure there are no tigers, and then go back to sleep.” But while waking up in the… Read More ›
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The Social Life of Forests
As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls of dirt (she liked the taste). Her grandfather and uncles, meanwhile, worked nearby as… Read More ›
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What is your product of the year?
I had a quick thought about this and of course I, like many of you, have had more time at home to ponder what has been the most impactful product of my year. Turns out I bought quite a few… Read More ›
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‘It didn’t hurt at all’
CNN’s Cyril Vanier speaks with Martin Kenyon, a 91-year-old Briton who received the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The United Kingdom has become the world’s first nation to begin vaccinating its citizens with a fully vetted and authorized Covid-19 shot, a landmark… Read More ›
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Unboxing the $122,000 Smartphone
You’ll see lots of smartphone unboxings in 2021 -Samsung Galaxy S21 Unboxing, iPhone 13 etc, but none will compare to the ridiculousness of this $122K smartphone unboxing. Some of these phones are bonkers!
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