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A Comprehensive Guide to Hurricane Harvey: Facts, FAQs, and How to Help
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Explore the impact of Hurricane Harvey. Understand its devastation and aftermath. Learn about the history of Hurricane Harvey today.
How Fractals Work
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Fractals have been around forever but were only defined in the last quarter of the 20th century. Think you can wrap your brain around how fractals work?
Can You Guess the Country From a Poorly Drawn Flag?
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How many countries can you name if we show you poorly drawn images of flags? Identifying flags is hard enough as it is, so we'll be impressed if you can guess these banners correctly. Hone in on the country facts and salute the most reasonable results!
How Telephones Work
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Telephones are one of the most important and useful modern inventions. Learn about telephone operation, creating a telephone network and tones and bandwidth.
Epilepsy Overview
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Epilepsy operates like an electrical storm or traffic jam in the brain. Explore life with epilepsy and take a peek inside the world of the epileptic brain.
10 Scientific Laws and Theories You Really Should Know
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Even if you don't operate a scanning electron microscope all that frequently, you might want to brush up on these 10 scientific laws and theories. After all, they're some of our best tools for describing how the universe works.
How Television Works
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Ever wonder how television works? The technology has been around long enough to seem ordinary, but the box that brings TV shows into your home is an amazing device. How is the picture formed? Where does the color come from? Let's find out!
How Ramjets Work
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Imagine whipping through the sky at thousands of miles per hour. This special type of jet engine can do exactly that.
12 Famous Pirates With Legendary Reputations
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The pirate life wasn't all about buried treasure and parrots on shoulders — they also ruled the waves, looted merchant ships and struck fear into entire nations. During the Golden Age of piracy, few pirates could escape the watchful eyes of the Royal Navy or the bounty-hungry pirate hunters, but some managed to build lasting legends.
How Nuclear Bombs Work
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Nine countries hold the 13,000 nuclear weapons in the global stockpile. That's less than during the Cold War but it doesn't change the fact that these bombs are still a threat to global humanity. So how do they work and are we close to nuclear war?