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Then when you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most

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on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business

sellers.

Live on digital recorder from beautiful Codiac, Alaska. Steve Merski here with Scientific American Science Talk. Reporting live for me from Cabin 668 on the MS. Amsterdam is part of

Bright Horizons, Scientific American Cruise number 22. For more information on that, you can go to

scientificamerican.com slash travel. I'm stepping out onto the veranda here. It's a beautiful sunny day. At 7 a.m. Alaska time,

it was 48 degrees, but they did anticipate a high of 68 and it's warming up rapidly. And it's

a spectacular day. We've had exceptionally good and lucky weather while we've been here.

A little rain at first in Catcha Cannon, Juneau, nothing serious, and then just beautiful, clear skies in Anchorage, Homer, and now Codiac.

Going to head back into the room.

The music you hear is coming from the TV, Channel 41 on the television,

and all the rooms here on the ship features a bow-end camera,

a front-end camera, I should say.

The front of a ship is called the bow. That was Robin Lloyd,

news editor at Scientific American. And Channel 41 gives you this view of what we're sailing into

at all times with a lovely classical music soundtrack. Of course, we're in port right now, so we're not sailing anywhere.

Then if you switch down to Channel 40, you get the information that I've been sharing with you.

So we are in Port in Kodiak.

There's a map here, so we're south of Homer, where we were, and even further south from Anchorage, where we were the day before.

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