5 Tips to Finally Achieve Your Fitness Goals - Today on HowStuffWorks NOW

Jan 09, 2017 05:03 pm   Today on HowStuffWorks NOW   5 Tips to Finally Achieve Your Fitness Goals Don't quit! You can accomplish your workout resolutions by taking some simple steps psychologists recommend.       Google Home Speakers Argue, Talk About Their Feelings on Twitch And it's strangely entertaining.       How Long Should You Use Your Bath Towel Without Washing It? Answer: A lot less time than you're probably thinking.       Japan Celebrates 20-Year-Olds With Massive Annual Party Turning 20 means Japanese youth gain the responsibilities and rights of adulthood, including voting and drinking alcohol. How do they mark the occasion?       Mark Your Calendars for These 2017 Space Events, Astronomy Fans A total solar eclipse and a comet flyby are on the list of fascinating astronomical happenings 2017 has in store.       Why Ransomware Is the Perfect Hack Ransomware is coming for us all.       Gun Violence Spreads Through Social Networks Like an Epidemic, Study Shows According to new research, shootings pass from person to person like a contagious disease.       What's the Protocol of Inviting a Recovering Alcoholic to an Event With Drinks? We talk with addiction specialists and recovering alcoholics to find out whether the host should hold off on the booze, give a heads-up, or do nothing.       Dinosaur Eggs Took Months to Hatch, Perhaps Contributing to Dino Doom Based on some baby dinosaur teeth, scientists have figured out just how long dinosaur eggs incubated. (The answer? Long. Too long.)       Americans Use 500 Million Straws Every Day. Would You Pledge to Go Strawless? The OneLessStraw campaign encourages people to kick their straw habit to keep plastic from harming the environment.       Madagascar's Most Famous Species Is Near Extinction Ring-tailed lemurs — perhaps the most iconic species on the tropical island of Madagascar — are in significant decline due to habitat loss, hunting and illegal capture.     Copyright © 2017 InfoSpace Holdings LLC, All rights reserved. HowStuffWorks, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave, Atlanta, GA 30308 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Car Sensors Are Getting Pretty Darned Advanced - Today on HowStuffWorks NOW

Jan 05, 2017 06:36 pm   Today on HowStuffWorks NOW   Car Sensors Are Getting Pretty Darned Advanced They could prevent you from crashing into a deer or a pedestrian, and they don't have to rely on visual identification to do it either.       Have Star-studded U.S. Presidential Inaugurations Typically Been the Norm? President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly having trouble finding celebrities to perform during his inauguration. But have stars usually been part of this event?       China Bans Elephant Ivory Trade China has a voracious appetite for elephant ivory, but the country plans to shut down its ivory market by the end of 2017. Will it be enough to save the elephants?       Pregnancy Changes a Mother's Brain Structure and Size for Years Can having a baby change your brain? Science says "yes" — and the changes stick around for years more than previously thought.       These Awesome Animals Got Celebrity Names in 2016 From musicians to politicians, a bunch of famous folks can now say they have entire species named in their honor.       Is It Legal to Give Your Pet Medical Marijuana? Many Americans who've benefited from using medical marijuana are wondering whether they can get a prescription for their pets, too.       Elephants Eat Leftover Christmas Trees Zookeepers in Europe feed their elephants surplus holiday foliage, giving the animals a treat they both eat and play with.       Hear and Now: Tardigrade Mating Revealed! Also on this week's Now podcast: Researchers just can't stop sniffing around asparagus-scented urine, and buggy software is sending some innocent people to jail.       Unveiled at CES: The Electric Car Hoping to Beat Tesla at Its Game Faraday Future wants to give Tesla a run for its money with the FF 91, a brand-new, four-door electric car with a swanky inside that was just unveiled at CES.       Newly Discovered Desert Bee Species Are Curiously Ant-like With the identification of nine intriguing new bee species, questions about survival in the desert abound.       Why a Massive Zika Outbreak in the United States Is Unlikely Sure, the carrier mosquitoes are in the U.S., and so is the disease. But other factors will stave off a widespread incident, experts say.       How Processed Food Saved the World A food historian argues against our romanticizing of eating 'fresh, local food, like great-grandma did' while ignoring the toil involved in doing so.       Some Salamanders Will Travel Incredible Distances to Mate What motivates these amphibians to rove so far? Let's talk about sex, baby. And endurance.       Ridiculous History: When Artists Fooled the Nazis With a Ghost Army Or why combat skills aren't always necessary to gain the upper hand in war.     Copyright © 2017 InfoSpace LLC, All rights reserved. HowStuffWorks, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave, Atlanta, GA 30308 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list