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Can You Hurt People With Bacteria In Canned Food?

Spores love low oxygen, high temperature, and low acidity. A lot of conditions for canning food are also conditions in which spores would love to germinate. In theory, it is possible to get botulin into food, however, if you heat the food for long-enough to achieve theoretical 12-log reduction of botulin toxin (99.9999% reduction) through this process, it should be ok. Exact duration depends on food and the method of preparation.


What Goes Wrong Within The Brain Deprived Of Sleep?

A brain on sleep deprivation shuts down your brain's ability to commit new experiences to memory, according to the MRI images obtained from subjects in study.


Do You Find Provo To Be A More Creative Place Than San Francisco?

The competitive nature of San Francisco can push you to create a lot in a short period of time, meanwhile in Utah, while a much less competitive environment, you might actually have more freedom and capacity to create, due to slower pace of living and cheaper rent.


What Has Been The Secret To Shauna's Success?

She believes that 80% of life is showing up, following through, and executing. She does a lot of "doing" and taking care of others. Shauna is good at picking up on her environment and isn't into the numbers/science side of some recruiting philosophies.


What Is The Reality Of Modern Work And Life?

Nobody does it alone. We actually have to rely on other people with their support and collaboration in order to be successful.


How Do You Get The Best Investments?

According to Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital, you get the best deals if you are right before everyone else recognizes it.


What Is Miasma?

It’s when someone thinks a disease is carried through smell. Back then, people thought diseases were spread by air, not by sticking unclean fingers into a bullet wound to fish a bullet out of someone.


Is It Better To Have Children When You're Younger Or Older?

Wilson and his wife decided that they wanted to be married at least four years before having kids. He’s glad to have kids when he was 26 because at that age, he personally had more energy to keep up with them. Plus, when his kids are out of the house, he won’t be super old.


How Did Christopher Michel Choose The Life Of An Adventure Photographer?

In 2008, after selling two companies, Christopher Michel realized he wanted to pursue the life of an adventure photographer as a way to live a good life and to preserve his memories forever.


Why Did Aj Build Carrd?

While AJ was somewhat bored of making individual HTML5 templates, he also started to create one-page fillers, just something to put up on the site for new content. Little did he know, those one page templates were actually really popular.


Can Fear Be Good For You?

YES. Fear is the compass, and there is always something valuable in the end.

Of course, if it's the matter of life and death, then it's a good idea to listen to your body and run away from the fear, but as far as our modern life is concerned, fear is good.


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