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Many people aim for 10,000 daily steps without realizing the number traces to a 1965 Japanese marketing campaign for the ‘Manpo-kei’ pedometer It could be argued that a fitness wave that followed the 1964 Tokyo Olympics gave a Japanese clockmaker its opening. In 1965, Yamasa Tokei Keiki released a pedometer called the Manpo-kei, capitalising on a country newly enthusiastic about walking and exercise. The name translates roughly to “10,000 steps meter”. It was a slogan, not a […] The post Many people aim for 10,000 daily steps without realizing the number traces to a 1965 Japanese marketing campaign for the ‘Manpo-kei’ pedometer appeared first on Space Daily.
A survey across 142 countries found that about almost a quarter of people felt very or fairly lonely, but the loneliest group was not the old, as many assume: it was young adults aged 19 to 29 Space Daily · 3h ago RPO Past, Present, and Future: How Spacecraft Learned to Meet, Inspect, Service, and Remove Objects in Orbit New Space Economy · 4h ago SpaceX is being fast-tracked into major stock indexes that sit inside retirement accounts and passive funds — meaning millions of ordinary investors may soon own a slice of Elon Musk’s rocket company without ever choosing the stock directly, and perhaps without realizing it. Space Daily · 4h ago In a single afternoon on the Nasdaq, SpaceX did not just make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire — on paper it also lifted an estimated 4,400 current and former employees into millionaires, with around 400 sitting on stakes worth more than 100 million dollars. Space Daily · 5h ago A trained dog can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools — a sensitivity so extreme that dogs can pick up the molecular traces of cancer in a person’s breath — and a 2024 study found them correctly identifying breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer with roughly 94 percent accuracy Space Daily · 6h ago We often credit perks and pay for engagement at work, but one analysis found something else mattered more — meeting workers’ needs for autonomy, competence and connection, with well-being rising as stress and burnout fell Space Daily · 6h ago
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