How Stuff Works

How DOES stuff work, anyhow?

Did you ever wonder about the engineering behind such common things as washing machines, automobile clutches, electric guitars, or eBay work? Or just how does our economy go chugging along, with lots of folks making money the whole time?

Today's FamilyFirst site is entitled, appropriately enough, How Stuff Works. Here's their mission:

HowStuffWorks is an online publishing company widely recognized as a leading source for clear, unbiased, reliable explanations of how everything actually works. With thousands of articles, content features and illustrations populating ten different content channels, HowStuffWorks.com attracts millions of unique visitors each month.

Learn why laptop computers are lighter, smaller, and slower than their desktop counterparts.

Did you ever wonder how a digital camera can see a room full of objects and transform them into ones and zeroes? Find out with the fascinating article online.

How about deja vu? There's is an amazing writeup outlining the theories behind that strange feeling that you've been somewhere before. Did you know that people suffering from epilepsy often begin their attacks with a feeling of deja vu? Find out what scientific theories there are to explain this phenomenon.

And that's just scratching the surface. Find out what makes darned near anything work at today's FamilyFirst site!

http://www.howstuffworks.com

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