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Nutritionist loses 27 pounds while on junk food diet

Photo via The Sun Sentinel Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, spent 10 weeks eating nothing but Twinkies, sugary cereals, Oreos, Doritos, and other junk food snacks and ended up losing 27 pounds. His experiment … Continue reading

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Binary marble adding machine (or MATH WITH MARBLES)

The Binary Marble Adding Machine by Matthias Wandel is just extraordinary. It’s a simple 6-bit calculator that’s completely analog, meaning that the entire thing is made of wood and is activated by marbles! There are no actual computer parts to … Continue reading

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