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Welding and the automation frontier.

“A good job for drilling down into the specifics of automation is welding. Welding today exists right on the “automation frontier” — some industries, like car manufacturing, have automated nearly all their welding, while others, like construction, have automated very […]

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Challenge anxious thoughts with help from this tool.

Created by an anxious person who didn’t always have someone to talk out their worries with. Describe anything you’re anxious about and the tool will help put you at ease (if appropriate). It can also predict and handle your rebuttals. ~ learn […]

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Fiddlesticks.

“Fiddlestick is recorded from the fifteenth century, and Shakespeare used a proverb based on it in Henry IV: “the devil rides on a fiddle-stick”, meaning that a commotion has broken out…” ~ learn more

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4.5 billion years in 1 hour.

“We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie! Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is.” ~ learn […]

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5 of the most famous typos in history.

One is the Wicked Bible: “In a reprint of the King James Bible by royal printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the word “not” was egregiously left out of the Seventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” which was mistakenly […]

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Hearing bad grammar results in physical signs of stress.

“The new study reveals a statistically significant reduction in HRV in response to grammatical violations. This reduction reflects the extent of the grammatical violations, suggesting that the more errors a person hears, the more regular their heartbeat becomes—a sign of […]