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Emirates’ Flight Catering Food Factory In Dubai Produces 175,000 Meals Per Day, And It’s All Fresh
Ever wondered where your airline meal comes from? If you’ve ever flown through the Middle East, it probably came from here. This one building provides the fresh food, drinks and other amenities for every Emirates flights leaving Dubai, at a rate of one every two or three minutes, to hundreds of different destinations around the…
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How ‘Clean’ Was Sold To America
The average American’s daily hygiene ritual would have seemed unusual — nay, obsessive — to our forebears a hundred years ago. From mouthwash to deodorant, so many of our hygiene products were invented in the past century and so too, you could say, the necessity for them. Americans had to be convinced their breath was…
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How One Company Spent Millions On A Gaming Mouse
There’s a room on Logitech’s bright, modern-looking campus in Lausanne, Switzerland full of contraptions specifically designed to torture PC hardware.
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Inside The Colourful World Of Animal Vision
As humans, we live in a colourful world, but differences in visual systems means that not all animals see the world in the same way. Unlike other aspects of an object such as size or mass, colour is not an inherent property of an object but a result of the sensory system of the viewer.…