tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68856680665362232532024-03-13T12:16:57.896-07:00Myth - Debunk ItA place where no myth is left un-debunked.V.A. Sriram Praveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06828797203319812648noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885668066536223253.post-60915844045325302982016-12-01T04:12:00.003-08:002016-12-01T04:12:46.291-08:00Left Brain vs Right Brain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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really Right Brained or Left Brained?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A time-old
way of categorizing someone’s personality is to determine whether that
individual is <b>“right-brained” or
left-brained”</b> — right-brained people are thought to be more <b>spontaneous, creative, and artistic,</b>
while left-brainers are associated with being more <b>logical, detail-oriented, analytical</b>. Too bad <b>it's not true</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So where
did this whole left brain vs. right brain idea start? It was born back in the
60s when a Nobel Prize-winning neuro-psychologist named Roger Sperry cut the
hemisphere-connecting brain fibers in a number of epilepsy patients to reduce
their seizures. Then <b>he decided to run
an experiment to compare how the right and left hemispheres processed
information differently</b>, and his study marked the <b>beginning of the right-brain left-brain myth </b>that would persist
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Trouble is,
<b>science never really supported this
notion</b> after that. More recently, brain scan technology has revealed that
the hemispheres' roles are <b>not quite as
cut-and-dried as once thought</b>. The two hemispheres are in fact<b> highly complementary</b>. For example,
language processing, once believed to be left- hemisphere-only, is now
understood to take place in both hemispheres: the left side processes grammar
and pronunciation while the right processes intonation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"I'm
disappointed with some aspects of civilization," <b>Neil deGrasse Tyson</b> explained in a <a href="https://www.fastcocreate.com/embed/409c25a7ea735">video</a> interview
with Fast Company. "One is our unending urge to bypass subtlety of
character, thought, and expression and just categorize people.” He says to
refrain from labeling him as “right-brained” or “left-brained” — <b>Tyson is just “brained” </b>like all of us.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What remains
true is that the <b>right side of the brain
controls the left side of the body and vice versa.</b> What this means is that
an injury to the left side of the brain (such as a left-hemisphere stroke) can
cause damage to the other side of the body (such as right-leg paralysis).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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V.A. Sriram Praveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06828797203319812648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885668066536223253.post-448958577408372872016-11-29T07:36:00.003-08:002016-11-29T07:36:50.496-08:00Digesting Gum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Really Take 7 Years to Digest?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Maybe you
couldn't find a nearby trashcan, or perhaps you were enjoying the taste just a
little too much. Whatever the case, you did what most of us have done at one
point or another: You <b>swallowed your
chewing gum</b>. It's only then that a refrain from childhood echoes through
your mind: <b>"Don't swallow chewing
gum—it will stay in your system for seven years!"</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thankfully
the legend <b>is false</b>. As
gastroenterologist Dr. Rodger Liddle of the Duke University School of Medicine
explained to Scientific American: "<b>Nothing
would reside that long</b> unless it was so large it couldn't get out of the
stomach or it was trapped in the intestine."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Chewing gum
consists of a <b>gum base, sweetener, flavoring,
preservatives and softeners</b>. Sugars and flavoring ingredients such as mint
oils break down easily and are soon excreted. Likewise, softeners such as
vegetable oil or glycerine don’t present a problem for the digestive system.
The ingredient that can <b>withstand both
the acid in the stomach and the digestive enzymes</b> in the intestines is the <b>gum base.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But even
though the gum base cannot be broken down, that <b>doesn’t mean it stays in your gut for seven years</b>. Nor does it <b>wind itself around your heart</b>, as some
also assert. Provided it’s a small piece, <b>it
does eventually find its way down and out of the digestive tract.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">However,
this <b>doesn't mean you should start
swallowing your chewing gum regularly</b> — in several reported cases, doctors
had to remove taffy-like wads of gum from children's bowels. Swallowing a lot
of chewing gum in a relatively short amount of time, it seems, can <b>cause the pieces to accumulate and stuff up
the digestive tract</b>, causing constipation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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V.A. Sriram Praveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06828797203319812648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885668066536223253.post-19418501617549305252016-11-27T05:58:00.003-08:002017-01-21T01:56:03.082-08:00Coin Dropped from a Skyscraper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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or any coin dropped from a tall Skyscraper kill you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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probably heard people say how if you drop <b>a
penny off the top of the Empire State Building</b>, it will accelerate to such
a speed that if it struck someone, <b>it
would kill them</b>. This simply<b> isn’t
true at all</b>, not by a long shot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A penny
only weighs about a gram and it tumbles as it falls. Because of the <b>tumbling and the light weight</b>, there's
so much air resistance that the penny <b>never
really gathers that much speed before it hits its terminal velocity</b>. A gram
of weight traveling at a relatively slow speed might<b> hurt a little if it hit you on the head, but it's not going to kill
you.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Pennies are
flat, so they experience a lot of air resistance, and<b> they are light, so it doesn't take much drag to counteract their
weight</b>. Thus, if hurled off a skyscraper, <b>pennies achieve their terminal velocity after only about 50 feet (15
meters) of descent</b>. After that point, they flutter to the ground at a
measly 25 mph (40 kmph).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So where
does the penny myth come from? It might have something to do with the <b>psychological impact of skyscrapers</b>. Maybe
standing on tall buildings gives people an exaggerated sense of their own
power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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make new brain cells?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
traditional view and one that has been taught for generations is that you are <b>born with all the neurons </b>you will ever
have and if a brain cell dies, <b>it is
never replaced</b>. However in the last decade or so, much has been learnt
about the adult brain and it has finally been accepted that <b>this is not the case</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">For much of
the past century, it was thought that the production of new neurons – <b>neurogenesis</b> – was restricted to <b>embryonic development</b>. If this was true,
you’d have <b>lost your sense of smell</b>
years ago! Not to mention, <b>you’d never
be able to form new memories or learn new things.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The brain
may favor <b>stability over plasticity</b>.
Human adult neurogenesis may be an evolutionary relic, and one that comes at a <b>very high cost</b>. However, unfortunately,
<b>some</b> nerves can’t repair themselves
or regrow once damaged in adulthood (like those in the spinal column). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it’s important to know that this <b>absolute
statement is a myth</b>, and some neurons do regrow- and our brain is changing
all the time, as we experience new memories and <b>learn something new about myths every day. ;-)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.brainfacts.org/sensing-thinking-behaving/learning-and-memory/articles/2010/your-brain-cant-make-new-cells-myth/">http://www.brainfacts.org/sensing-thinking-behaving/learning-and-memory/articles/2010/your-brain-cant-make-new-cells-myth/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Diamonds really rare and valuable?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Diamonds
are our most </span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">popular gemstone</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> That hasn’t always been the case. It was only in
the last century that diamonds became readily available. Prior to that, rubies
and sapphires were the most popular gems, especially for engagement rings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">All gem
grade materials are rare, composing just a tiny fraction of the earth. However,
<b>among gems, diamonds are actually the most common.</b> If you doubt this ask
yourself; “How many women do you know that do not own at least one diamond?”
Now ask the same question about other gems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And the
common belief that diamonds are <b>inherently valuable?</b> It’s just <b>not true</b>. In
fact, reselling a diamond for top dollar isn’t all that easy.<b> Once you leave
the jewelry shop after buying a diamond, it loses 50% of its value.</b> It’s what
economists call a thin market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>One diamond
cartel, De Beers, has artificially driven up the price of diamonds for decades.</b>
A 1920s advertising campaign set a cultural expectation of diamonds as an
expression of love that has endured since. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">DeBeers
maintained monopolistic control over the diamond market for several decades.
<b>They carefully released only enough rough diamonds to satisfy then-current
demand,</b> while continually adjusting the degree to which the rough diamonds were
made available. This caused continually
escalating prices, and of course, it increased the perception of rarity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">With that,
we can almost say that, <b>crystallized carbon — one of the most abundant
substances in the universe</b>, Diamonds are a <b>worldwide scam</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Debunked!</div>
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Rex Really Only See You If You Moved?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s a
question that has plagued moviegoers since Jurassic Park was released in 1993:
Could a T. Rex really only see you if you moved? Thanks to researchers at the
University of Oregon, that question could finally be answered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">University
of Oregon researcher Professor Kent Stevens began a project called “DinoMorph”
in 1993 which set out to generate digital models of various theropod dinosaurs,
including the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptors. Theropods were
bipedal, flesh-eating dinosaurs with short forelimbs. The idea of the project
was to recreate the visualizations of these animals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To do this,
Stevens effectively turned a technique used to measure and assess visual
fields, called perimetry, inside out. This novel technique, called inverse
perimetry, involved the use of taxidermic eyes, a laser and a glass plate which
together allowed Stevens to estimate whether a particular object would be
visible at various elevations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stevens
determined that a T-Rex’s binocular range was 55 degrees, which is wider than
even hawks. And it would have only gotten better. Paleontologists know from the
fossil record that, over millennia, T. rex’s eyes got larger and its snout got
lower and narrower, giving it even clearer sight lines than Stevens’ model.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">While T.
Rex may have possessed excellent vision, it was likely a secondary concern next
to its sense of smell. The Jurassic park cast most likely would have been prey
anyway, according to Stevens, who said that “If you’re sweating in fear one
inch from the nostrils of the T. Rex, it would figure out you were there
anyway.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">That said,
there is some debate as to just how fast they were, with most scientists today
thinking they had only a max speed of about 17-25 mph. That would have made the
jeep chasing scene quite a bit less dramatic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Debunked!</span></div>
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astronaut explode if he takes off his helmet?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Have you
ever wondered what might happen to your body in space without a spacesuit? Is
it really as dramatic as the movies make it out to be? Would you literally
EXPLODE? Could you survive?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The most
serious dangers of exposure to outer space are a lack of oxygen and ebullism.
Ebullism is the formation of bubbles in body fluids due to a reduction in
ambient pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You’ll
swell up pretty bad, perhaps even up to twice your normal size, but you won’t
explode as your skin is very stretchy. Your blood will also not boil. You will,
of course, be in an immense amount of pain and your blood circulation will be
impeded. After around 15 seconds, your body would have used up all of the
oxygen in your body and you’d lose consciousness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some of you
may be thinking “But I can hold my breath for minutes!” The situation in space
is a little different than here on Earth due to the lack of outside pressure,
and if you held your breath in space without a suit you’d be in a big trouble.
This is because any remaining air would rapidly expand, rupturing the lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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such a thing as "explosive decompression," but that merely refers to
the sudden loss of pressure in an air- or spacecraft, not the effect on the
occupants. Though your chances of surviving such an experience are slim, your
body would not explode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In sum-
you’d swell up, burn, mutate, pass out and your lungs might explode. Lovely.
But don’t worry, if you’re ever in this sticky situation, you’ve probably got a
solid minute or two to be rescued before you die, so chin up, wannabe
astronauts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often credited as being the first
person to have circumnavigated the globe, but the reality of his journey is a
bit more complicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he didn't set out to circle the globe, but rather to find a safer way for
Spanish merchants to fabled Spice Islands. Magellan's expedition is the first
one to accomplish circumnavigation, but poor Ferdinand didn't make it home,
since he was killed by natives in the Philippines in 1521, about halfway home. But
since Ferdinand was the captain and leader of the expedition, he gets the
credit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Magellan wasn’t the first human to circumnavigate the globe, who was? This is
slightly up for debate. The honor may go to Magellan’s personal slave, Enrique
of Malacca, though it isn’t quite clear whether he made the last 1000 or so
miles necessary to actually officially complete the trip, or if he did, when he
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Magellan didn’t complete the journey and isn’t rightfully called “the first
person to circumnavigate the globe,” he was the first person to plan a
successful expedition. Before his death, he also contributed to the “Age of
Discovery” by finding a way to the Pacific Ocean from the west.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Let them eat cake” is the most famous quote attributed to
Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. Upon being
informed that the citizens of France had no bread to eat, Marie Antoinette,
Queen-consort of Louis XVI of France, exclaimed "let them eat cake",
or "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This cemented her position as a airheaded woman who didn't care
for the common people of France, and is why she was executed in the French
Revolution, which was fueled by this same remark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Not according to historians. Lady Antonia Fraser, author of a biography of the
French queen, believes the quote would have been highly uncharacteristic of
Marie-Antoinette, an intelligent woman who donated generously to charitable
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">That aside, what’s even more convincing is the fact that the
“Let them eat cake” story had been floating around for years before 1789. It
was first told in a slightly different form about Marie-Thérèse, the Spanish
princess who married King Louis XIV in 1660. She allegedly suggested that the
French people eat “la croûte de pâté” (or the crust of the pâté).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The first person to put the specific phrase “Qu’ils mangent
de la brioche” into print may have been the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
In Book VI of Rousseau’s Confessions (written about 1767), he relates a version
of the story, attributing the quote to “a great princess” (Probably referring
to Marie-Thérèse). Although Marie-Antoinette was a princess at the time, she
was still a child, so it is unlikely that she was the princess Rousseau had in
mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Her life was actually quite a sad story from beginning to end
and reputable historical accounts of herself and her actions are quite contrary
to the general perception of her, not just then, but today as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The widespread belief that urine is the best cure for a
jellyfish sting is probably the best known from an episode of Friends in which
Chandler has to urinate on Monica’s leg after she is stung.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But is that really a thing? Jellyfish release stingers which
attach to the body part in contact. These stingers contain venom which is
highly alkaline and can only be neutralized by an acid. The sting affects the
nerves of the skin – causing pain, burning, and tingling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Urine is only slightly acidic, which is not enough to
neutralize the alkaline venom. Some studies even say that urine causes the
stingers to release more venom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">One of the ways to treat a sting is to get out of the water
to avoid getting stung again. Once out, slowly pouring seawater over the sting
will help ease the pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Pouring vinegar instead of sea water may be better as it
neutralizes the venom in the sting. Avoid using fresh water or solvents and don’t
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone has heard of the 5-second rule. If a food item drops
on the floor and you pick it up within five seconds, it’s still perfectly safe
to eat. Undoubtedly invented by a child or teenager, the 5-second rule has been
accepted and employed by kids and adults just about everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You’ll be dismayed to find out, however, that the rule does
not have much scientific credence. Bacteria can contaminate food immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The five-second rule has little effect on the amount of
bacteria you would pick up from a heavily contaminated surface," says Dr.
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Think about this, if you drop food on a floor, it's
better to put it in the bin rather than your mouth. No matter if it’s at home
on the carpet, the kitchen floor or in the street, my advice is if you drop it,
chuck it."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and has been studied as both a public health recommendation and as a
sociological effect. A YouTube channel called Vsauce also dedicated a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXdsOEWBj0" target="_blank">video</a> to
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your mother in your ear telling you not to waste food), it’s better to toss the
food from the floor into your garbage can than into your mouth.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stretching for some 4,500 miles, the ancient Chinese
fortification is the mightiest work of man. Being this long and large, it
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1932,
a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" cartoon called it “the only one that
would be visible to the human eye from the moon,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is not true. The reality is that you can’t easily see
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And certainly,
the Apollo astronauts couldn’t see it from the Moon, even though that urban
legend has been widely circulated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">First of all, it's not the only object visible (although
barely discernible) from Low Earth orbit distance. Human-built structures such
as highways, airports, bridges, dams, and components of the Kennedy Space
Center are also visible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Earth’s orbit, like from the Moon, the answer for whether or not the Great Wall
of China can be seen from space with the naked eye changes to a definitive
“no”, despite what was often reported in the early 20th century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of the 20th Century, Time magazine voted Albert
Einstein to be the Man of The Century. He authored four papers that changed our
understanding of the way the universe works. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Generations of school kids have consoled themselves over
their poor school marks with the belief that Einstein failed at school. Some
motivational speakers also make this claim - but this is wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The truth is, Einstein seemed to relish problem solving, and
little else. Despite minor troubles in French and the Humanities, Einstein was
a prodigy in math and physics from a young age. He loathed the busy work of a
typical school day and dropped out when he was 15.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This rumor actually started while he was still alive and even
showed up in a particular issue of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Einstein
reportedly found the article humorous and remarked: ““I never failed in mathematics…
Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With that said, Einstein’s story is full of quirks and
quarks, putting aside math and physics it is true the Einstein wasn’t always
considered the smartest guy in the room… prior to 1905.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today the word Einstein is synonymous with “smart” in the
modern English lexicon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We’ve seen many movies and pictures of large men who wore
helmets with horns on them, conquering and pillaging nearby lands. These
helmets must be real, right? Wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Horned helmets were worn by many people around the world, but
not by the Vikings. To date, there is no evidence that any Viking warrior wore
a horned helmet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In depictions dating from the Viking age—between the eighth
and 11th centuries—warriors appear either bareheaded or clad in simple helmets
likely made of either iron or leather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The popular image of the strapping Viking in a horned helmet
dates back to the 1800s, when Scandinavian artists like Sweden’s Gustav
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sure, the helmets could help intimidate enemies and maybe
even poke out a few eyes, but they would have been even more likely to get
entangled in a tree branch or embedded in a shield.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">They were practically impractical in close combat situations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">How many states does matter exist in?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">From Elementary school we keep learning about 3 states of
matter, solids, liquids and gasses. Hence, most of us assume that these are the
only ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Things have changed. There is certain proof that there are
more than 3 states of mater, of which, most prominent is plasma. Plasma is not
a common state of matter here on Earth, but may be the most common state of
matter in the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The main difference in the structures of each state is in the
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Many other states are known to exist only in extreme
situations, such as Bose–Einstein condensates, neutron-degenerate matter and
quark-gluon plasma, which occur in situations of extreme cold, extreme density
and extremely high-energy color-charged matter respectively. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some other states are believed to be possible but remain
theoretical for now. You can click on the last link in the sources for the
whole list of different states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Our textbooks contains no explanation about the newly
discovered states. If we take a 7<sup>th</sup> grade Science textbook, we will
only see Solids, Liquids and Gasses. It’s about time we bring upon a change by taking this matter seriously, pun intended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When you think of asteroid belts, you imagine a region of
rock and dust, with asteroids as far as the eye can see, where the spaceships
must swerve left and right to avoid collisions. That’s true… only in movies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In reality the asteroid belt is less cluttered than often
portrayed. If you were in the middle of an asteroid belt, you probably wouldn’t
see any asteroids at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If the asteroids were big enough and close enough to pose a
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In fact, if you pull all the asteroids in that belt between Mars
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you are flying through the asteroid belt. But that would make for dull and boring movies
and easy video games.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is it compulsory to drink 8 glasses of water a day?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">After a workout, we feel thirsty, hence we drink water. Is it
necessary to drink a lot of it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">NO. If there is one health myth that will not die, it is this.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">There is no scientific proof supporting the claim to drink 8 glasses or 2 liters
of water each day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">The risk of dehydration is way overblown. Media constantly inundates
us to drink a lot of fluids during summer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">The source of this myth was a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board
recommendation that said people need about 2 to 2.5 liters of water a day, but
the next line was ignored which said, most of the water is already contained in
prepared foods. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">So you may ask</span>, h<span style="line-height: 107%;">ow do we know how much water to
drink? This is pretty simple…</span> w<span style="line-height: 107%;">hen you feel thirsty. That’s how you know. There is no
scientific evidence that drinking extra water is beneficial to our health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">This myth is popularized by sports drink companies that rely
on us drinking their products.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Just remember: you don’t need 8 glasses a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Was Napoleon really that short?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader
who is well known for two things, being a master tactician and being shorter
than average.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The so called “Napoleon Complex” is a theorized condition occurring in
people of short stature and is characterized by over-aggressive social behavior
due to this stature.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Napoleon wasn’t short at all. He is listed as 5 feet 2
inches according to French units. This is the equivalent of 5 feet 6.5 inches
in modern measurement units.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This might still be considered short but this was higher than
the average height of a Frenchman at that time period.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This myth perpetuated also due his habit of surrounding
himself with tall bodyguard due to which he appeared shorter. He was also named
‘le petit caporal’, meaning little corporal.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The old saying that 'lightning never strikes the same place
twice' is another myth that any veteran storm observer or researcher has seen
nature defy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lightning can strike any location more than once. In fact,
given enough time, it is actually inevitable. Tall television towers and large
skyscrapers are the most common places that lightning strikes recurrently.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It may take as little as less than ten minutes within a
single thunderstorm, or longer than a million years - but lightning will
eventually strike the same spot again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A strike to any location does nothing to change the
electrical activity in the storm above, which will produce another strike as
soon as it 'recharges'. The previously hit location is then just as fair game
for the next discharge as any other spot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tall television towers and large skyscrapers are the most
common places that lightning strikes recurrently.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The shape of the earth is not round or spherical. It is much
more precise to call the shape of the earth as geoid i.e., something similar to
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and flattened at the poles and its surface is constantly changing due to the
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I have to disappoint you, the shape of the earth is pretty
different from that of a football or a basketball as you might have imagined. It’s
more like a big potato or an oddly shaped orange depending on your fantasy.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We all live in the Earth and are bound by its Gravitational
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But everyone knows that space has no gravity, and we are free
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Space is packed with gravity. Without it there would be no
solar systems or galaxies and all the objects would move in straight lines. But
gravitational force decreases with increase in distance between the two
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every object in the universe is constantly attracting every
other object in the universe. This means that, YOU are applying some amount of
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why do people keep saying that “It’s just a Theory!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When someone says things like, “I have a theory on why things
fall down, it is because of the robots from the underground pull things with
giant magnets”, it is a hypothesis that is not proven and it certainly is not a
theory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First let us get something straight, words like fact, theory,
hypothesis and law mean something completely different.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Facts are observations of the world around us. There are many
laws that state ‘how’ things happen, but we don’t know ‘why’ it happens as the
way it does. We develop explanations for these observations, called a
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When enough of the hypotheses on the same subject have been confirmed,
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being a theory isn’t a bad thing, it means that the idea has passed
the toughest tests we can throw at it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next time someone comments that something is “just a
theory” for things like Evolution and Climate Change, say it right to their face
that it’s a proven fact.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the most widely spread urban legend is that we humans
use only 10% or lesser of our brains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I mean come on, we are smarter than that. According to all
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We use each and every part of the brain during our daily
functions. Even during our sleep, we use many parts of the brain like the frontal
cortex or the somato-sensory areas, which help in sensing the surroundings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ultimately, it’s not that we use only 10% of our brains, it’s
that we only understand 10% of how the brain works.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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