The Economics of Canada’s Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve
Yes, it’s a real thing. Yes, there are real economic principles at work. Yes, you should read it.
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New Years Resolutions: Trick Yourself into Keeping Them…
The scientific term is ‘implementation intentions’, and if you use them to your advantage, you’ll trick your brain into making you act on your resolutions. If you read the article slowly, the good advice will stick with you…
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Learn: A Pool, a Plate, and a Physics Lesson…
If you’re the curious, life-long learner type you might get a kick out of the latest from Physics Girl. In four minutes, it covers everything you can learn by dragging a plate through the water in a pool.
Read & ShareWhy Airlines Bump Passengers, and What You Can do About it
Put this article in the ‘nice-to-know’ category… it’s all about why the airlines occasionally involuntarily bump passengers and what you can do about it. In this season of travel, being in the know could be the difference between a miserable day at the airport and a great vacation.
Read & Share sourced from: VoxA Century Ago, When The Guns Fell Silent On Christmas
The story of how on the Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of trenches of World War I, a truce was called.
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Twelve Weeks To A Six-Figure Job
They’re called coding boot camps, and they’ll have employable in the software and programming development business in a lot less time than a traditional four-year program.
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What? The River That Carved the Grand Canyon Doesn’t Reach the Ocean Anymore?
Chalk it up as one of those interesting and somewhat unbelievable facts, the Colorado river — the one that carved the Grand Canyon — no longer reaches the Sea of Cortez. Well, it didn’t until earlier this year when a pulse of water was released in hopes of revitalizing the lower delta.
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WATCH: 3D Printing Lets Disabled Dog Run for the First Time
Seeing is believing, and this is a great example of the changes technology will have on our lives.
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Learn: Why is it Harder to Drive Backwards?
When you can get a beautifully simple physics lesson wrapped in an entertaining, short video that explains a phenomenon we’ve all encountered… we’ll always share it here.
Read & ShareStar Trek’s Universal Translator is Now a Real Thing
It’s technology coming from Microsoft and being introduced through Skype. If you follow the link below, you’ll see two videos that show it in action.
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Viewing The World Through a Good-Data Filter
The value of good data shall not be underestimated, but equally important is having the tools to make sense of it. This presentation by a Swedish statistician will alter your preconceptions about the world we live in, and leave you with a refreshingly hopeful take on the state of the world and the direction we’ve
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The Science is in… Men are More Likely to Be Idiots
A statistical study of the world’s most idiotic deaths suggests men are more likely to suffer from a sort of fatal idiot syndrome. The science is real, so if you’re a man… you’ve been warned.
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The timing of this article is very apropos. After all, better information is what the Minot Voice is all about.
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Slow Motion Awesome: Raindrop Impacts on Sand
There are a lot of everyday events that look very different when you slow them down — a lot, but this short video on a rain drop hitting landing in sand is particularly impressive. The video was recorded by chemical engineers at the University of Minnesota researching…. wait for it…. the types of craters that water drops
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Economic Lessons from Marathon Finishers?
When we set goals, we like nice round numbers… like finishing a marathon in under four hours. Often times, these goals are valuable motivators, but they also occasionally lead us towards bad decisions and outcomes. Read this article to inform your own behavior for the better.
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Documentary Makers Finally Produce Worthwhile Movie
Perhaps there’s a bit of irreverence in our title, but it’s all in good fun — which seems fitting for the movie you’re about to preview. You’ll have to wait until the new year, but it looks like it will be released to video on demand just in time to help you get over your
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