While waiting for the egg timer or the microwave heating your oatmeal to go off, use the kitchen counter for support, and get going with 20 calf raises and 20 lunges and 20 counter push-ups.

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Water gobbles up microwaves (the heating that this causes is how microwave ovens work), so finding a good site for a microwave telescope is even harder than finding one for an optical telescope.

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They have found that heating the sand for about 90 seconds with a microwave generator (known as a magnetron) designed for a household microwave oven produces a thermal image that is detectable for 15-20 minutes.

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Prolonged exposure to microwave radiation produced the stress protein, even though there appeared to be no noticeable heating.

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