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Why isn't the World Cup happening now?
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The World Cup Finals is only played every 4 years but isn't it always in June?    The World Cup Finals 2022 will be played in Qatar from November 21st until December 18th, 2022. &nbs...
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Death Valley, CA - How hot was it?
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  This picture may have been Photoshopped and not be a true representation.  We blacked out the Fahrenheit reading of this temperature sign at the Death Valley Visitor ...
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Just ONE hot dog
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A newly released nutritional and environmentally sustainable study shows that eating just one hot dog can take 36 minutes off your total healthy lifespan. How many would you have to eat to lo...
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Shoprite's solar energy goals on the African continent
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  Shoprite is the largest supermarket chain in Africa.  The company is presently engaged in increasing their use of solar power to harness the abundant natural resource of solar potentia...
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How big is this hornet really?
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Egad !!!!   Giant Asian hornets have now migrated to Washington state and British Columbia.  Even though they are sometimes called "murder hornets" their stings aren't fatal.  The...
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Hoarding stopped!
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  A Danish market found an interesting way to limit hoarding of hand sanitizer. How much are these costs in your currency? What is the unit price on these bottles...
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Which gasoline is the cheapest?
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When Brian traveled to Crete last summer with his wife and son on an Archaeological dig, buying gasoline for his small rental car got him wondering again. He was pretty g...
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New Horizons spacecraft just flew by a really distant asteroid
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Brian May, the lead guitarist of the rock band, Queen, is also an astrophysicist and one of the science team collaborators of the New Horizons space program. The video below is the song that he wrot...
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Encouraging bats might be better than using bug repellant
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Bats eat mosquitoes ... lots of mosquitoes. Students compare a bat's weight to how much he can consume in one night.  They calculate how much they would need to eat to consume a comparable prop...
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How fast can you run?
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Have you heard of The Six Million Dollar Man?  He was the character in a science fiction show about an astronaut that was rebuilt, bionically, after his space ship crashed.  He could run a...
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The Olympic Torch trip in South Korea
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On October 24, 2017, the Olympic flame was captured on Mount Olympus, Greece. That flame lit one of this year's Olympic Torches and the Torch relay was begun on its way to the opening Winter Olympic...
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Shrinking Toblerone
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  New York Times photo - Credit Darren Staples/Reuters  They changed it.  That is so not fair ... or is it? You can check out a video news story on the delicious shrinking Toblero...
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