When you melt chocolate onto a grating, the chocolate seeps into all the little grooves. When the chocolate hardens and you lift the grating off, the chocolate itself will have the grating pattern on its surface. If you shine white light on the chocolate, you’ll see a rainbow. If you use a laser to shine just one color of light on the candy, the chocolate will diffract light into spots....
Unfortunately, no one has stumbled upon an easy get-rich-quick scheme that you can run from your couch (if they have, they haven’t shared it with us). Still, you can earn a substantial chunk of cash if you’re prepared to put in some time and energy. Just don’t expect a sudden windfall from a few mouse clicks. We don’t know your personal situation or talents, so we’ve tried to cram as many ideas as possible into this guide—hopefully something will catch your eye....
Why you make so many phone typos Phones have small screens, and we have big thumbs. This makes us inherently more prone to mistakes when we’re poking at a phone keyboard with our sausage fingers. It’s “a completely different experience than typing on a computer,” says Angana Ghosh, Product Manager for Google’s Gboard. “There’s smaller real estate on a phone screen.” Why can’t the keyboard compensate for our shortcomings? The problem is, developers would have to cater to your typing style, which varies wildly from person to person....
With a few key details, a description, and a photo, you can start helping in minutes. It’s as easy as sharing your chosen cause on social media and letting the app handle the heavy lifting of collecting and registering donations. We’ve picked out five apps that make fundraising straightforward, and they’re free to download whether you’re using Android or iOS. Facebook If you’re still using Facebook, know that you can use the site for more than just posting vacation photos and keeping in touch with your friends....
Reader Robert Hayes of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, asks: “Is there some way a small, nondeadly atomic bomb could somehow blow apart a tornado as it forms, averting any damage the storm might bring?” While some might assume this idea to be an absurd one, we were willing to check it out (even the “nondeadly atomic bomb” part). And lo, it turns out that researchers are currently hard at work devising ways to control the weather—particularly disastrous weather systems like tornados and hurricanes—and hope to put their ideas to the test in the coming decades....
Both Android phones and iPhones have built-in system-wide safety measures that allow you to limit the sites your kids can see, the apps they’re allowed to run, or the time they spend on their device each day. But some apps also have parental controls included—social media is no exception. These bespoke settings let you tailor an app to be suitable for your kids, keeping them away from inappropriate content and making sure they’re using social platforms responsibly....
With Apple stepping up its efforts in the streaming business, it comes as no surprise that the company would totally ramp up its music app. With iOS 10, the Music app has a new visual design, restructuring and organizing your library, while improving upon the streaming service format as well. The “For You” section has albums of the day, playlists of the day, a mix of your favorite songs — the songs that you listen to most, anyway — and playlists centered on the interests you input when first registering for Apple Music....
The default Photos app has a new look in iOS 10. The albums are set up in a grid format, two wide, to help you navigate your photos more easily than before. You have an album just for your camera roll, one for all your wonderful selfies, and one for videos. The new AI-powered albums You’ll notice that you have albums called “People” and “Places” now, too. Not only did the Photos app get a reorganization, but it also got some brain power....
Research shows our clothes have the power to make us feel more competent and authoritative and even more trustworthy. What we wear also plays a role in how capable people think we are at our jobs. This is called the white-coat effect and has been largely studied in medical settings, where research shows white coats make doctors seem more professional, friendly, and experienced. The results strongly oppose our widely-held belief that what we put on our bodies doesn’t affect the way we perceive ourselves or others in a workspace....
Reproductive patterns, for instance, have changed considerably over time and have resulted in fewer older fathers in the West. This has had an effect on evolution, says Jones, because fathers who have children when older than 35 have a higher rate of genetic mutations to pass down the line. A 29-year-old father—the mean age of reproduction in the West—has approximately 300 divisions between the sperm that made him and what he passes on, while a 50-year-old father has well over a thousand divisions....
Having a four-armed drummer is pretty metal, and I would love to see what it can do with some Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy or Flo Mounier hijinks. That said, I think I am most amused by the robo-Lemmy’s, uh, shall we say, limited finger motion. A perfect illustration of how rock’n’roll doesn’t have to be complicated to kick some ass.
Many cat owners have similar stories of bizarre feline behavior. So it’s only natural that frustrated cat enthusiasts might try to create a high-tech solution to better understand their pets. In 2003, Japanese toy company Takara Tomy released a handheld gadget called the Meowlingual Cat Translation Device. Equipped with a microphone, the device can purportedly interpret over 200 words from “cat chat” to Japanese, and glean 21 distinct emotions from a cat’s movements and behavior....
De Lorenzi draws his bow across the lowest string and plays G for half a beat. He pauses, then follows with A-flat. Then A. He moves up the scale, never changing his pace as he works through all four strings. Once he finishes, he repeats the exercise, this time sounding each tone just a bit faster. Clearly, this is no ordinary concert—or a typical practice. Outside, police have cordoned off the street to traffic....
And so we make models. Sometime next month, the world’s third-fastest supercomputer –known as Mira–will complete tests of its new upgraded software and begin running the largest cosmological simulations ever performed at Argonne National Laboratory. These simulations are massive, taking in huge amounts of data from the latest generation of high-fidelity sky surveys and crunching it into models of the universe that are larger, higher-resolution, and more statistically accurate than any that have come before....
But are you ready for the sequel? Insider reported Thursday that the company’s co-founder, Stacy Spikes, regained ownership of MoviePass this week, paying an undisclosed sum to buy it out of bankruptcy. To recap how it got there: The service originally launched under Spikes a decade ago, offering customers the chance to check out multiple movies in theaters every month for a set price. The company’s first foray into this model offered unlimited movies each month for $50, CNET says, but it soon switched to a sliding scale of cost tailored to location (between $24....
And yesterday, Jaunt Studios and The North Face released a virtual Nepalese mountain adventure. Beginning near Kathmandu’s “monkey temple,” the experience follows mountaineers Renan Ozturk and Tim Kemple as they ascend up from about 3,000 feet through the Khumbu glacier to about 20,000 feet on the Lobuche Peak. The new production gives Jaunt’s camera and post-production platform a chance to shine. The “experience” is undoubtedly too short, lasting just a few minutes, but it is indeed memorable....
The Flip wasn’t remarkable to look at. It was a cylinder, about the same as a tallboy of beer—pretty much what you’ve come to expect from countless brands (such as the Ultimate Ears speaker line). But this “party in your palm” caught on, and JBL’s Bluetooth speakers have become more resonant and resilient with each update. We’ve had the chance to audition the full line of JBL wireless speakers, from the personal-sized Flip 6 and Charge 5 to the party-focused Xtreme 3 and Boombox 3, and can say these wireless outdoor speakers are satisfying across the board....
“Ye has become the richest Black man in history through music and apparel and is taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech,” Parler said in its statement. Ye is actually not the richest Black man in history, or even today—there are multiple other Black billionaires who outrank him including Oprah Winfrey and African cement magnate Aliko Dangote. Parler’s shakeup comes barely a week after both Twitter and Instagram temporarily suspended Ye for posting antisemitic remarks, including a promise to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE [sic]....
A research team found the vertebrae of the 43-foot long snake down the Cerrejon Coal Mine in northern Colombia. Their report appears in Nature this week, and gives a conservative estimate that the snake weighed 2,500 pounds when it lived 60 million years ago. “At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hips,” said David Polly, a geologist at Indiana University-Bloomington. “The size is pretty amazing....
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