While those early resistance bands were constructed from standard surgical tubing, there are many more options on the market today. Many of the best resistance bands for working out are made from latex rubber or fabric, and some even come with handles that can be clipped on for further adaptability. In addition, most bands come in sets that are typically color-coded to indicate various resistance levels, making them perfect for users with a wide range of fitness skills from beginner to intermediate and advanced....

How we selected the best routers for Comcast Getting one of the best routers for Comcast is typically a two-step process. First, you need to identify what kind of router you want. Are you going budget? Is Netgear best? Or are you searching for the best portable Wi-Fi? Whatever you’re looking for, there is probably a great router that works with Comcast in the list. This brings us to the second step: verifying that the router works with Comcast internet....

The key differences between these two jacket types come down to fit and style. In many types of skiing, how fast you can make it down the mountain is a top goal. Aerodynamic designs need to fit snuggly to minimize resistance on your (hopefully controlled) descent. In contrast, the intricate movements required to stay on your snowboard as you execute flips, grab the heel or toe edges of the board, and rotate in mid-air, favor a looser fit....

The Apple Watch has cellular and GPS connectivity, a scribble texting feature—you draw letters on the face of the watch—lets me stay in touch with people when my phone battery dies, and even lets you swim with the watch. With all of these features, I am able to leave my phone at home if I am going to the pool or to the beach. The watch is water-resistant to 50 meters and holds an 18-hour charge....

After pairing nine male voles with females and letting them bond for five days (an eternity for these short-lived rodents), researchers wrested the fledgling couples apart. Compared to voles who had not been separated—and to a control group of males who had been bonded to other males in “friendship,” then separated—the voles who had been taken away from their “romantic” partners showed signs of suffering. The level of stress hormones in their blood rose sharply, they grew passive and sluggish, and their performance on “forced swim and tail suspension tests”—which are just about as dauntingly unfun for the voles as they sound—decreased quite a bit from pre-separation levels....

But, resurrecting an old bicycle isn’t as simple as putting some air in the tires and heading out into the streets. With a few simple tools and a little bit of knowledge, you can figure out what your ride needs before it’s ready to cruise. You can also determine if years of sitting around have rendered it unsaveable. Wash before you look Layers of dirt from your last ride and dust from time spent in storage can make a bike hard to inspect....

The Gas Guzzler Meter is an attempt at putting an immediate dollar value on your current driving techniques: a digital meter that displays exactly what you’re spending as you motor along. Stomp on the pedal and see the bucks zoom out your tailpipe faster than a NASCAR driver competing for the Nextel Cup. Before we begin this project, however, please heed these words of caution: the Gas Guzzler Meter is not a precisely calibrated scientific measuring instrument....

While there are chargers that disguise themselves as regular decor (like lamps or picture frames), I wanted something even more invisible. So I grabbed the end table next to my couch, carved a hole in the underside, and glued in a wireless charger. Now I can juice up just by plopping my phone on the table. Stats Time: 3 hoursMaterial cost: $50 (not including the table)Difficulty: easy Materials A tableA wireless chargerA Quick Charge 3....

The results of the study, published this week in Nature, confirm findings from previous research on newborn delivery methods and their effect on the infant’s microbiomes. “In some ways, we already knew these things,” says Meghan Azad, a research scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba who studies the infant microbiome. “But [this study does] such a better job of proving it.” The study was particularly large—it included nearly 600 infants—and used advanced sequencing techniques to analyze the bacteria in the babies’ guts....

Yesterday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles released draft rules for how the Golden State will regulate driverless cars. The first answer: with onboard human drivers. IEEE Spectrum reports: So for the first few years of autonomous car use in California, the machines will be manufacturer-owned, driver-leased. This is presumably so that liability for any mishaps will fall to the carmaker, not the person sitting behind the wheel. Under the new plan, “Manufacturers will be approved for a three-year deployment permit, which will require them to regularly report on the performance, safety, and usage of autonomous vehicles....

An article in the New York Times this week documented major efforts from five groups of researchers that looked at using machine-learning algorithms to analyze the calls of rodents, lemurs, whales, chickens, pigs, bats, cats, and more. Typically, artificial intelligence systems learn through training with labeled data (which can be supplied by the internet, or resources like e-books). For human language models, this usually involves giving computers a sentence, blocking out certain words, and asking the program to fill in the blanks....

That means it carries more heft than the tiny hydrogen-vehicle launches of the past. Like Toyota’s Prius nearly 20 years ago, the Mirai is more than a curiosity. It has the potential to reshape the automotive landscape. If anyone knows the Mirai, it’s McClory, who has spent eight years working on it. What makes it unique, he says, is its exceptional range: about 310 miles on a single tank. That’s more than its hydrogen competition—the Honda FCX Clarity and the Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell—and more than any electric car on the road....

Minard’s most famous piece, reproduced below, was also his last. The bottom portion of the chart is the bit that esteemed infographic designer Edward Tufte said “may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn.” A great infographic is simultaneously data-dense and intuitive to read, even though those are generally opposing principles in a visual. Though Minard’s graph doesn’t reference Napoleon at all, it is in fact a representation of the French commander’s ill-fated Russian campaign of 1812....

Formally called the Experimentation Demonstration Gateway Event 21 (EDGE21), the exercise at Dugway ran from May 3 to May 14, 2021. There, stretches of desert were used as stand-ins for Pacific islands, a terrestrial exploration of how the Army might lend its power to amphibious combat. Paratroopers wore Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headsets, a Microsoft-built augmented reality system designed to layer useful information into a soldier’s field of view on the battlefield....

A lot of New Yorkers are accustomed to closet-like living quarters, which sounds awful and uncomfortable, right? Doesn’t have to be. This winning design from an NYC architecture competition has some clever ideas for making the most of a bite-sized apartment. At less than 400 feet, the winning design of New York’s adAPT NYC contest isn’t the roomiest spot. But “My Micro NY,” as the design is called, still manages to squeeze in some coveted amenities, including 10-foot-high ceilings and Juliet balconies....

Jason Burnett, who until recently served as senior adviser on climate change to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, claims that Cheney lobbied for six of the 14 pages of testimony by Center for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding to be redacted from congressional record. Those deleted pages included a list of the most likely and profound health consequences of global climate change. As reported by the Associated Press, Burnett believes Cheney sought the reductions to prevent future regulation of carbon dioxide emission....

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Recycling, or collecting materials that would have been thrown away as trash and reprocessing them into new products, helps reduce this amount of waste and prevents further pollution. Consumers can choose to close the recycling loop by purchasing new products made from recycled materials. These days, you can find anything from backpacks and outdoor furniture from old plastic, hosiery and Jenga blocks from discarded fishing nets, or even water bottles and straws from recycled steel....

This type of discovery occurred recently to a group of American researchers. They had been working on the mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease progression in the hopes of finding possible routes for treatment. As expected, the work ended up revealing significant information on the molecular mechanisms occurring within the brain. Yet as their published article reveals there was a significant surprise in store. The going hypothesis was that one of the major factors in the development of disease, the amyloid-beta protein, Aβ, plays a role long before onset of clinical symptoms....

That’s scary. No one knows where the program came from, what it’s really doing, or why it failed to actually execute a single trade–though there are plenty of theories. None of which is comforting. Scarier still: This kind of thing most certainly happens more often than we realize, and it happens without any kind of oversight. The global financial markets that underpin our economies are essentially run by programs that function faster than any human, neither the program’s creator nor any government regulator, could possibly intervene to halt an impending disaster (remember the “flash crash” of 2010?...