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…and in the future, no more mouse! – According to computer designers, we will soon no longer need to use a mouse. It won’t be replaced by a button on the computer (which already exists on some computer models), we will use HAND GESTURES instead!

In BBC News, Maggie Shiels quotes researcher Steve Prentice as saying, “The mouse works fine in the desktop environment but for home entertainment or working on a notebook it’s over?Instead of using a conventional remote control you hold up your hand and it recognizes you have done that. It also recognizes your face and that you are you and it will display on your TV screen your menu. You can move your hand to move around and select what you want?[The new computer] recognizes even when you smile.”
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After they compete, Olympic athletes should have…a cup of coffee!

Recipe to recover more quickly from exercise: Finish workout, eat pasta, and wash down with five or six cups of strong coffee. Glycogen, the muscle’s primary fuel source during exercise, is replenished more rapidly when athletes ingest both carbohydrate and caffeine following exhaustive exercise. Athletes who ingested caffeine with carbohydrate had 66% more glycogen in their muscles four hours after finishing intense exercise, compared to when they consumed carbohydrates alone.
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Can you HEAR what a person looks like? A growing body of research suggests we can. And by the way, fish talk too. If you didn’t realize that, you haven’t been listening.
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We know it’s a lefties game, but increasingly, it’s also a LATINO game. When Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in April 1947, his appearance shattered an 80-year baseball color line that segregated the game as a “white only” sport. Now, more than 60 years later, the number of black players has dwindled and players of Latino heritage have become a major force on the baseball diamond in the United States.
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