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Feb 15, 2024

One of the best things about Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is how realistic he makes the caped crusader feel. Unlike the Joel Schumacher or even the Tim Burton versions, Nolan's world seems groun ...

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Feb 15, 2024

If anybody knows how to pick a lock, it's Schuyler Towne.Towne is a competitive lockpicker, professional security researcher, founder of Non-Destructive Entry Magazine, and the genius behind Open Lock ...

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Jan 19, 2024

Autism affects 1 in 68 children in the US, and that means it affects at least 1 in every 68 families. More boys than girls are diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, and it's estimated that almost ...

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Jan 19, 2024

Tomorrow's the 1st of April which means it's the one day of the year you can put aside the daily grind, and go at it Dwight Schrute and Jim Halpert style. Yes, there are easy apps to do your dirty wor ...

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Jan 19, 2024

Don't believe what you read on the internet, especially today, when web giants like Amazon, Google, and the like showcase their otherworldly products and services. If they seem too good to be true, th ...

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Jan 18, 2024

Lack of appetite often signals a cold or flu. Eating can be the last thing we want to do when we have a sore throat or are too fatigued or achy to even get out of bed. When hungry, we don't feel as st ...

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Jan 10, 2024

What's better? A Star Wars strip show or a steamy-hot Slave Leia car wash?We know you WonderHowTo fans cannot get enough of the Star-Wars-plus-scantily-clad-female equation. Well, we don't want to dis ...

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Jan 10, 2024

Mindfreak. Indeed.In the magic community, Criss Angel is considered a bit silly, albeit hardworking.To reveal the fork-bending trick, Jay Jay presents a very witty and informed tutorial.Mindfake.Relat ...

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Jan 10, 2024

Despite legends to the contrary, it appears that the saliva of a Komodo dragon is not teeming with pathogenic bacteria that kills their prey. Its reputation to survive while colonized with lots of hor ...

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Jan 10, 2024

As Hummer puts it, it's "The Ultimate Gadget for Grown-Ups."Dr. James Brighton from Britain's Cranfield University has converted a full-size Hummer H3 into a working remote control vehicle.According t ...

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Nov 28, 2022

As unappealing as it sounds, transplants with fecal material from healthy donors help treat tough Clostridium difficile gastrointestinal infections. Researchers credit the treatment's success to its a ...

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Nov 17, 2022

Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server.This past Saturday we had a great turn out for the Weekly Workshop, and we even managed to get a few of yo ...

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Nov 17, 2022

It's odd to see grown humans attempting to bounce off walls doing parkour. It's another thing altogether to see a robot doing it.University of California Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab has cre ...

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Jan 10, 2022

The private automobile has been an intrinsic part of our lives for around a hundred years. But over the last decade, car sharing has gained a very small but growing part of the mobility market. The mo ...

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Aug 23, 2021

The year was 1947. Scientists had isolated a virus from a pyrexial rhesus monkey in Uganda and named it after the forest where the monkey lived — Zika.Then, a little more than a year ago, in the fall ...

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Apr 9, 2021

Apparently submerging a hand in liquid nitrogen isn't as painful as one might suspect (if you trust the Leidenfrost effect as much as Theodore of Gray Matter):I hadn't realized that my hand was quite ...

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Nov 22, 2019

When I was 12, for some mysterious reason, my dad put my little brothers and me in charge of cooking the Thanksgiving turkey. Naturally, my brothers and I spent the rest of the day playing hide-in-see ...

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Mar 16, 2018

Papercraft + Transformers = Fanboy nirvana.Papercrafting is enjoying a renaissance thanks to its nerd-love. Popularity of card modeling boomed during World War II when paper was one of the few items w ...

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Sep 12, 2017

You might notice that there's been a few changes around here.All of us here at WonderHowTo have been working hard to create fun new spaces and topic areas to dig our heels into. We've created a few br ...

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Sep 7, 2017

This is a tale about microbes, a man who became a hermit, and the parchment that carries both of their stories.Sometime around 1190 AD in Italy, a man named Laurentius Loricatus was born. Trained to b ...

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Sep 6, 2017

On the airplane, in the middle of cold and flu season, your seatmate is spewing, despite the clutch of tissues in their lap. Your proximity to an infectious person probably leaves you daydreaming (or ...

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Sep 6, 2017

A virus easily spread among trout and salmon could make it harder to keep your favorite fish on the menu.The image of dead and dying fish below is from a fish hatchery in the middle of an epidemic of ...

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Sep 6, 2017

Andre was enjoying the carefree life of a 12-year-old with his friends, riding his bike and playing sports, like all kids that age. Schoolwork wasn't hard for him, and his grades showed that.Then, the ...

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Sep 6, 2017

A deadly type of brain tumor and Zika-related brain damage in developing fetuses are devastating brain conditions that, at first glance, may seem unrelated. However, thanks to new research, their path ...

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Sep 2, 2017

In the case of rotting food, microbes are not our friends. Now, scientists have developed a new food wrap coated with tiny clay tubes packed with an antibacterial essential oil that can extend the she ...

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Sep 1, 2017

Indoor electric grills are nothing new; George Foreman grills have been around for over 20 years now, providing healthy, smokeless grilling options for indoor use. Yet as nifty and fun as George Forem ...

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Sep 1, 2017

At first glance, mandolines seem like such a good idea. After all, who wouldn't want a tool that can create picture-perfect and paper-thin slices of fruits and vegetables that would put even the sharp ...

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Aug 31, 2017

A recent initiative by the Cherokee Nation American Indian Tribe delivers a success story for knocking out a silent killer — Hepatitis C.Most people know that hepatitis is a disease that has something ...

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Aug 30, 2017

For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved medication to treat children with a serious infection called Chagas disease, which stealthily infects and damages the hearts ...

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Aug 30, 2017

As the fish farming industry struggles to become more environmentally friendly, it just gained another problem. Fish food loaded with antibiotic-resistant genes.Do you like salmon? Around the world, s ...