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“Pop” goes the tab on a can of Coke. Maybe you sip it and it’s gone in 20 minutes, or maybe you were thirsty and downed it in just a few glugs. Either way, 39 grams of sugar, 45 grams of sodium, in addition to some phosphoric acid, caffeine and other ingredients, from a 12-ounce serving are now in your system. And while you might not be actively thinking about it at the time, your body is hard at work processing the beverage. Here’s a nice visual by former U.K. pharmacist Niraj Naik, also known as the Renegade Pharmacist, showing what happens in the hour after you drink a can of Coke. Niraj Naik, the brain behind website The Renegade Pharmacist has revealed disturbing effect of a can of Coke to our system within the first hour of drinking it. Here’s how it went: 1. In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allow

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, never-before-seen photos from inside the White House during the 9/11 attacks have been released. The photos, reportedly captured by a staff photographer, document the reactions of then President, George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney as they watch the horrific incident unfold on live television on September 11, 2001. The majority of the photos were taken in the secure basement of the White House, where Secret Service agents frog-marched top government officials following reports that more attacks were a possibility. In the photos, President Bush looks tense as he converses with top officials in the President’s Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), a highly-secure bunker situated below the East Wing, which can withstand nuclear hits and ‘other devastating attacks’. Other senior government officials also feature in the photographs, including National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George Tenet, Dick Cheney’s law

Space agency's Kepler mission finds planet outside solar system that may have volcanoes, oceans and sunshine like Earth. Kepler 452b's star is 1.5 billion years older and 10 percent brighter than our sun Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as the Earth orbits the Sun, NASA has said. Named Kepler 452b, the planet is about 60 percent larger than Earth. It could have active volcanoes, oceans and sunshine like ours, twice as much gravity and a year that lasts 385 days, scientists said on Thursday. "Today we are announcing the discovery of an exoplanet that, as far we can tell, is a pretty good close cousin to the Earth and our Sun," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "This is about the closest so far, and I really emphasize the 'so-far,'" he added, describing Kepler 452b as

According to a new climate change study, sea levels will actually rise much quicker than previously thought and, basically, we’re all pretty f*cked. The study – written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors – concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are now expected to melt 10 times faster than previous estimates. That would result in sea level rise of at least 10 feet within the next 50 years. Terrifyingly, that could mean that coastal cities such as New York may only be habitable for another few decades. The problem is that melting glaciers create a “feedback loop” which only exacerbates the melting problem. Cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forces warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, which then speeds up the melting rate. And, once that starts, we are completely powerless to stop it. And, bad news everyone, the consensus of Hansen and his team is that it has already started. And, as far as the scie

Story is from the blog of Kunj Karia I was returning from guitar classes. I took an auto, back home. On the way, the auto-driver asked me how long has it been since I started learning to play the instrument. I told him it was my 2nd session that day. 5 minutes in the conversation I understood he knows a lot about guitar. I knew there was a story behind it and I wanted to know that story. So I asked… PS: The whole conversation happened in Hindi Me: Sir how do you know so much about guitar? He: *chuckles* I was a professional guitarist. I used to play with a group of friends, at small restaurants and bars. We used to perform on streets also. All that was 10 years back. Me: Then why did you stop playing? He: Money wasn’t good for musicians back then. Also, there was no assurance of a gig on daily basis. I was married and I needed something which assured my family food, at least twice a day. Me: Hmm.. tell me more about your friends, the group of friends with whom you played,

People say New Year’s Eve could be as magical and miraculous as Christmas Eve. And last year’s New Year’s Eve surely was magical for a 25 year old guy from New Zealand.                                                 copyrights: http://shutterstock.com The 25 year old Reese McKee met a girl, named Katie, in Hong Kong. Katie was allegedly crying because she had lost her friends somewhere in the crowd. Reese and Katie spent the rest of the evening talking. After Katie managed to find her friends, the two parted ways after Katie told Reese to find her. The next morning the boy had forgotten the girl’s e-mail address, but he had a picture of her on his cellphone. He used the social media in order to track her down. However, during the year things got too out of control – countless people tracked Katie down and bombed her with messages. The media also got involved and Katie had to delete all of her social profiles on the web. According to reports, Reese still hasn't contacted h

New model of sun's cycles predicts 'mini ice age' in 2030s Solar activity is predicted to drop by 60 percent in 2030. A new model that predicts the solar cycles more accurately than ever before has suggested that solar activity will drop by 60 percent between 2030 and 2040, which means in just 15 years’ time, Earth could sink into what researchers are calling a mini ice age. Such low solar activity has not been seen since the last mini ice age, called the Maunder Minimum, which plunged the northern hemisphere in particular into a series of bitterly cold winters between 1645 and 1715. The prediction is based on what’s known as the Sun’s '11-year heartbeat'. The Sun’s activity is not the same year in year out, it fluctuates over a cycle that lasts between 10 and 12 years. Ever since this was discovered 172 years ago, scientists have struggled to predict what each cycle will look like. But just last week at the National Astronomy Meeting in Wales,

“When I started hammering the hill, people called me a lunatic but that steeled my resolve.”  ~Dashrath Manjhi” Almost five decade ago, a landless farmer Dashrath Manjhi from Gahlor Ghati, of Gaya (a district of Bihar) resolved to end the difficulties of his villagers by shouldering a near impossible task of slitting a 300-feet-high hill apart to create a one-km passage. His village would nestle in the lap of rocky hills for which villagers would often face gigantic troubles for crossing small distance between Atri and Wazirganj, the outskirts of Gaya town. He started hammering the hill in early 1959 in the memory of his wife, who could not be taken to the nearest health care center on time for the immediate treatment as the nearest road that connected them to the city was 50 km long. He knew his voice will not create any reaction in the deaf ear of the government; therefore, Dashrath chose to accomplish this Herculean task alone. He sold his goats to purchase chisel,

The Maori people are New Zealand natives with an amazing history. Photographer Jimmy Nelson, has made it his mission to help preserve their culture. British photographer and journalist Jimmy Nelson has traveled around the world in an effort to preserve indigenous cultures around the world. For the this photo series, he is focusing on the Maori people of New Zealand. He started his photo project, "Before They Pass Away," in 2009. Nelson has photographed people from more than 35 different cultures around the world.

Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages like soda and energy drinks may be linked to as many as 184,000 adult deaths each year worldwide, according to research published today in the journal Circulation. "This is a single dietary factor with no intrinsic health value causing tens of thousands of deaths per year," said study coauthor Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University. "It's time to remove sugary beverages from the food supply." To get a handle on consumption of sugary beverages, Mozaffarian and his colleagues looked at information from 62 dietary surveys from 51 countries as well as data on the national availability of sugar from 187 countries. The surveys included data collected from 611,971 individuals between 1980 and 2010. The researchers focused on sugar-sweetened sodas, fruit drinks, sports and energy drinks, sweetened ice teas and homemade sugary drinks such as frescas,

In both TV crime dramas and real-life courtrooms, fingerprints are often the lynchpin connecting a criminal to a crime. Many studies have demonstrated that the loops, whorls, and arches on an individual’s “friction ridge skin” are unique enough to be admissible as evidence, but few have investigated whether they remain the same over time. It turns out that fingerprints do evolve, but only slightly: A statistical analysis published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that fingerprints change over time, but not enough to impact forensic analyses. The study followed 15,597 subjects, whose prints were taken at least five times over a minimum of 5 years. The results show that larger time intervals between printings reduced the odds of correctly matching a print to a finger in the database, but only by an operationally inconsequential amount. Further, the scenario in which an innocent defendant would be wrongfully convicted—where the machine finds a mat