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10 Types of Microphones
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Microphones have been around in some form for more than 150 years. Modern mics incorporate fiber optics, microchips, and even lasers to suit a variety of audio needs.
How to Clean Laminate Floors in 5 Easy Steps
Laminate floors can add a sleek and modern touch to a home, and keeping them clean requires a little care. Honestly, it's not hard to learn how to clean laminate floors.
How the Toyota MTRC Works
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The MTRC, Toyota's latest concept car, is about as futuristic as automotive technology gets. Take a look at its ultra-modern design and learn how it pushes the limits of current technology.
Goodbye Beard, Hello Beardstache: Who Spots the End of Trends?
Trends have dominated modern life - setting them, spotting them, tracking them, analyzing them. Learn who declares them dead at HowStuffWorks Now.
Groom of the Stool: A Crappy Job With Royal Benefits
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It may sound degrading to modern ears, but the groom of the stool, the person who helped the British king with his toilet duties, held an extremely prestigious position and was a close confidant of the monarch.
What Does It Mean When Someone Says 'That's Just Semantics'?
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In our modern vernacular, the phrase "that's just semantics" has somehow become shorthand to insinuate the speaker has argued something trivial or unimportant. But what does it really mean?
5 Games You Can Play With Only Pen and Paper
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Games that you play with only pen and paper can be just as fun as modern, high-tech games. Learn about five fun games you play with pen and paper.
Describe Your Dream Guy and We'll Give You a Celebrity Boyfriend
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If you could be with your perfect man, which of these modern day celebrities would he be like? Put a list of traits together and we will tell you who he is!
She's the Most Famous Paleobiologist You May Not Know
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The late Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska was the first woman to lead a dinosaur excavation expedition. And her volumes of research provide most of what we know today about the evolution of modern mammals.
How Woolly Mammoths Worked
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Hop in your time machine, set the clock back a few thousand years and meet some woolly wonders. They even have a few things to teach us about the fate of modern elephants.