30-Something Everyday Tasks You Might Be Doing 'Wrong' Plus 4 More Stories

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Brain Candy 30-Something Everyday Tasks You Might Be Doing 'Wrong' A list of videos posted to the question-and-answer site Quora.com got at least one user to change the way he peels hard-boiled eggs, washes his hands and adjusts his rearview mirror. Read this story Krulwich Wonders... 'You're Invisible, But I'll Eat You Anyway.' Secrets Of Snow-Diving Foxes They leap into the air, adjust their tails, land headfirst in the snow, burrow down and hit a teeny moving target — buried 3 feet below. It's their lunch. How does a fox catch a mouse in winter? This is amazing. Read this story The Two-Way Everyone Poops, But Dogs Do It With Magnetism After watching dogs do their business several thousand times, Czech researchers concluded that the magnetic field was a significant force when the pooches lined up to go. They suggest this could mean that behavior studies need to take the magnetic field's fluctuation into account. Read this story The Two-Way What Is The Polar Vortex And Why Is It Doing This To Us? This super cold air is usually whirling around the Arctic. But a big piece has plunged further south than normal. One way to think about what's happening: If a spinning ice skater extends her arms, she slows down. Sometimes, she wobbles and falls. The polar vortex has sort of stretched out an arm. Read this story Found Recipes Slow Cook Your Way To The Colonel's Secret Recipe Slow-cooking expert Stephanie O'Dea shares the story behind her KFC-inspired chicken: It was an attempt to recreate the Colonel's secret recipe so that her daughter, who has celiac disease, could experience a taste most Americans take for granted. In a twist, O'Dea also wanted to cook the chicken in a Crock-Pot. Read this story

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