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How does Messi keep the ball close to himself

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The science of how Messi keeps the ball close to himself photo credit: ZaleDesigns Messi is a magician with the ball at his feet. He's in my opinion the best player in the sense that he can control the ball so well, runs so fast with the ball & changes the direction at full speed like it's a walk in the park. For starters he started playing very early (at 3) which is crucial if you want to be a good player. In that aspect, he's God gifted as he had dribble skills which is genetic in my opinion. Height He is short which means a low center of gravity so it's difficult to push him off the ball. That's why we see that anyone rarely can topple him down, instead players much larger than him lose possession to him. So his short height suits his style of play & is a blessing in disguise. Change of pace Messi changes his pace really well. He starts slow and runs directly at the defender which means the defender has to stop & focus on him. When he reac...
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Bill gates makes strange toilets

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At long last, the successor to the porcelain throne has arrived. Well, maybe.

The project began in 2011, when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge." Samsung and the Gates Foundation joined up in 2019 to create the new product, which doesn't use a typical sewage system.

Instead, according to a Samsung blurb about the toilet, it recycles pee through a purification process — while solid waste is dehydrated, dried, and "combusted into ashes." And they say only Apple comes up with the cool hardware!
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It doesn't sound like serious stuff, but waste disposal is a significant global issue. The United Nations says that 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water services, and 3.6 billion lack safe sanitation services. And if that's not enough, more than 700 children under the age of five die every day from diarrheal diseases because of unsafe water and sanitation conditions.

Gates' and Samsung's toilet could really come in handy for those folks — if, of course, it actually works and is affordable for low income global communities. The ability to process and dispose of human waste at home, without relying on government infrastructure, might keep deadly diseases at bay.

Samsung plans to offer royalty-free licensing of the toilet plans so other manufacturers can hop on board. We won't know if it's the toilet to end all toilets until it lands in the hands of the people who need it most, and those logistics are extremely complicated.

And yes, it sounds like Bill Gates was personally involved in the process. According to Samsung's blurb, he personally met up with Samsung vice chairman Jay Lee earlier this month to discuss how the company could get the toilet to people who need it most.
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what are natural resources?

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why do we fall sick?

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Biology - Respiration Introduction The food material, taken in during the process of nutrition, is used by cells and then they provide energy for various life processes. Some organisms use oxygen to break-down glucose completely into carbon dioxide and water, such processes normally take place in cytoplasm. The following diagram illustrates the whole process of break-down of glucose through various pathways − During cellular respiration, the energy released, is immediately used to synthesize a molecule known as  ATP . ATP is further used to fuel all other activities in the cell. However, in these processes, ATP is broken down and give rise to a fixed amount of energy. This energy usually drives the endothermic reactions taking place in the cell. Adenosine triphosphate or simply ATP is a small molecule used in cells as a coenzyme (see image given below). More often, ATP is referred as the  energy currency  for most of the cellular processes (especially intracellular energy...
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