Broadcast: Feb 01, 2003 It's mid-afternoon at the DC Central Kitchen and Chef Karen Lewis is anxiously preparing hamburger meat to be used in tonight's dinner.

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Coffee before biking? You may have to stop on the side of the road sooner, but new research suggests that caffeine can help you get more bang from your w

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Spending your life hanging out at the seaside might sound like easy living. But for marine mussels, a day at the shore is no walk on the beach. Clinging

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It turns out that maybe speciation is, too. Because a study in the October 2nd issue of Nature sugges

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Dear diary: today I ate 3 carrot sticks while I fantasized about eating carrot cake. Alright, alright, I ate 3 pieces of carrot cake, and never once consid

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. With temperatures approaching 100 degrees in the eastern U.S. this week, its amazing that the leaves on the trees dont simply burst into flames. Maybe one

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. You've landed a small role in a low-budget horror movie.To get ready,you need to practice your reaction shot, you know, that look you will get when your bo

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Youve probably heard of the whole six degrees of separation thing. It predicts that, on average, youre no more than six links away from any other person o

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. For years, advocates have touted the use of biofuels as a clean burning alternative to gasoline, now a pair of studies published in the Feb 8 issue of Sci

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Somewhere along the line you've probably heard that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Its supposed to make your skin supple, keep your organ

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Anyone whos ever cut up an onion knows that some smells can actually be painful. Now, researchers from Baltimore and Denver are closer to understanding why

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Seems like every other week brings news that global warming is gonna be bad for some poor animal or other. But plants? Well, I guess I was thinking that p

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin . This will just take a minute. When you get caught in a downpour, you probably dont think about the size of the raindrops that assault you as you run for cover. But physicists do. And

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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. About a billion years from now, some scientists say, the sun will be too bright for comfort, and our formerly hospitable planet will no longer be able to

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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Hybrid cars are good for the environment, but scientists say that they might be bad for pedestrians. Because hybrids are so quiet that can be hard for wa

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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. When it comes to lizards' sex, size dose matter. But not in the way you might think. Because in the June 4th online issue of Journal Current Biology, sci

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Think about flying and you no doubt think about air--the wind in your face, the wind at your back, the wind beneath your wings. Now physicists note that li

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Ah, daydreaming. Is there anything more pleasant than sitting back and letting your thoughts drift? Well, yes: not letting your thoughts drift, for one.

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Expectant moms can have very different ideas when it comes to where they plan to have their babies. Some women even choose to give birth in a warm tub of

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Modern human babies are essentially learning machines. After birth, their brains grow in leaps and bounds, allowing infants to lay the groundwork for fut

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