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Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free?
Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free?
@naturejab is a content creator who's claimed to be able to recycle plastic into a fuel dubbed "plastoline"...
Making Bad Decisions: The Science of Decision-Making
MAKING BAD DECISIONS
Ever wonder why you make such bad decisions. We make around 35,000 decisions every day, and they can’t all be good. There...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that any homework of significant difficulty is in want of long hours to completion. In this case, twenty...
How Binge-Watching Ruins Your Memory
A Tale of Binge-Watching and You
After years of saying ‘I don’t need it’ or ‘it will waste my time,’ I finally caved last year...
Toxic Birds
Introduction:
To consider something toxic, it must produce “an adverse biological effect” to humans or other animals (“Basic Terminology”). For birds, several species have adverse...
Are All-Nighters in College Actually Beneficial?
In college, it’s hard to balance sleep and studying. Many students sacrifice sleep in the hopes that that time spent studying instead will positively...
Painting With all the Colors of the Wind Part Two
PART TWO: WHY DOES SYNESTHESIA HAPPEN?
So, we know a bit about what synesthesia is. But what actually causes these remarkable perceptions?
Well the truth is,...