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Biologists know very little about these chunky amphibians because they live in a fairly small region ranging from southwestern Cameroon into Equatorial Guinea, where they spend their lives in and around rivers in the dense rainforest. Local Goliath frog hunters have long said the critters were building nests, or little side pools, branching off from the main waterways to lay their eggs in, but scientists had never gone in to confirm that behavior or study it....

Back in 2010, DIYer Blake Bevin decided to recreate the “power laces” technology for an electronics contest on the DIY website Instructables. To her surprise, a video of her “crude, barely-working prototype” went viral (and was even shared on Popular Science). “After that,” Bevin says, “I started hearing from people with disabilities.” As it turns out, self-lacing shoes are good for more than nostalgia. They would be ideal footwear for those who have limited mobility in their hands—such as Bevin’s grandmother, who has Parkinson’s disease....

Its award-winning and lavish menu is historically meat and dairy laden—starring dishes like butter-poached lobster tails and celery roots in pig’s bladder. But this spring the restaurant announced that it would be re-opening with a vegan menu. Other world-famous restaurants have transitioned their menus into being vegan—Michelin-starred French chef Alexis Gauthier changed up his own menus and lifestyle. High-end spots aren’t the only restaurants offering meat-free options. Over the past few years, burger giants Burger King and White Castle have unveiled menu items made with vegan meat....

This recipe makes about three cups of coconut milk. Ingredients 2 cups coconut flakes (unsweetened)4 cups water (lukewarm)1 tablespoon maple syrup (optional) Tools BlenderBowlKitchen towelMeasuring cupsMeasuring spoonsStrainerMason jar (optional) Instructions Now that you’re done, you can drink the coconut milk immediately or store it in your refrigerator inside a sealed container like a mason jar. It’ll keep for three or four days in the fridge. When you take it out to drink, make sure you shake or stir it....

How to mute people on Instagram Instagram offers the option to mute any of your contacts. Under this setting, you won’t see their posts… but they won’t know. Muting sidesteps the awkwardness of a full unfriending, and leaves the door open so you can still reach out to your frenemy. Luckily, all three of these social networks, as well as instant messaging apps like WhatsApp, offer tools for muting certain contacts—or at least dialing down the number of their posts you see....

The algorithm pulls data from Gnutella, which gets about 30 to 40 million queries a day and is currently the most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing network in the United States. So far, the algorithm successfully predicted recent breakout artists Soulja Boy and Sean Kingston a full two months before they climbed to the top of Billboard charts in 2007. And when Atlanta-based rap trio Shop Boyz catapulted to fame in 2007, the algorithm predicted that, too—nine weeks before the group signed with Universal....

Thankfully, there are ways to reduce your electricity usage during the summer without compromising on comfort. Use these tips and tricks to save some money, reduce the strain on your area’s electrical grid, and help the planet while you’re at it. Isolate any heat you can Turn off your oven and any unnecessary electronics that produce heat, like lamps with incandescent bulbs. This will help you use less power while also avoiding the warmth they can add to your living space....

And if you don’t have a phone that works with this app, you want to run a more manual transfer, or you find you can’t copy some data, you’ll need to carefully extricate yourself from iOS. We can help guide you through some of those hoops too—it’s all after the first section below. Earlier this year, Google launched a Switch to Android app for people leaving Apple’s ecosystem behind, but it only worked with Pixel phones....

In the very early days of Chez Panisse, I knew the importance of the flavor and freshness of our ingredients, but seasonality wasn’t uppermost in my mind. The truth was, seasonality was an invisible force that we were grappling with every day, but we weren’t fully committed to understanding what it meant. The shift to seasonal cooking at Chez Panisse came with our connection to the farmer Bob Cannard, and the aliveness of the food that came into the restaurant from his farm....

Our emails aren’t always as well-thought-out, as accurately typed, or as succinct as we would like them to be—and that’s before you consider problems like sending emails without intended attachments and typing the wrong person’s address altogether. If this happens to you often and you’re not familiar with the heaven-sent “undo send” feature, now’s the time to learn. This tool is easy to find on some platforms, but on others you may need to take some extra steps to set it up....

In the era of the World Wide Web, that doesn’t make a lot of sense—you can be cut off from shows the rest of the planet is enjoying or even have your binge-watching interrupted when you take a vacation abroad. Fortunately, a smart software add-on or two can help. Tools such as VPNs and Smart DNS are relatively easy to set up and configure. And they have the power to unlock the full range of content available on your favorite streaming and download sites....

Even with gyms reopening at limited capacity, it’s still safer to exercise at home or outdoors. Check out our other Muscle Month to help you keep up your fitness, power, and health in socially distant times. — It’s no secret that your bodily health depends on your mental health and vice versa. While lack of exercise might emphasize feelings of depression and anxiety, squeezing into your workout gear can lead to lots of benefits, like a rush of happy endorphins and a distraction from your daily worries....

How the world of Valhalla began Crafting this sprawling recreation of 9th century England started much like the world-building process for the other titles in the 12-game franchise. The moment Ubisoft settled on a Viking-centered story for the 2020 release, its development team dove deep into research. They investigated the history, geography, environments, and structures of the land they wanted to bring to life. For Ubisoft level design director Philippe Bergeron, that meant reading books, looking for photos online, watching documentaries, and brainstorming the best ways to recreate historical events while tying them into the game’s multifaceted plot....

Yet no matter how barbaric the practice may seem, the reasons for doing so couldn’t be more relevant. Anthropologists from New Zealand have collected evidence that suggests that ritualized human sacrifice was a driver in the formation of the large scale, stratified societies we live in today, and was used as a tool to maintain social hierarchies. Their findings are published online in the journal Nature. Human sacrifice has occurred in early Germanic, Arab, Turkic, Inuit, American, Austronesian, African, Chinese and Japanese cultures....

Instead of feasting on black tea rum smoked salmon or french toast, the sea lion pup was quickly taken into the custody of one of Sea World San Diego’s rescue teams. The pup, now nicknamed Marina, had a host of health problems, including being malnourished, dehydrated, underweight, and with one of her eyes swollen shut. The hope is that with treatment and a rest, she might be able to recover, and once again be released into the wild....

WHETHER you’re fat or skinny, a gourmet or an “I’ll-eat-any-thing” type, food and eating are vital matters in your life—but matters about which most of us have many mistaken notions. Here are some fundamental questions about what and why you eat—with digested answers. Why do we eat three meals a day? Habit. Many people eat only two meals a day, others four or five. Unless you have weight or digestive problems, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t eat as many or as few as you like....

Between unstable connections and the sheer cost of expensive day passes, you might write off midair internet as not worth the trouble. But with the right tricks up your sleeve, you can finish your work without spending too long waiting for that email to load. Get a better price In-flight Wi-Fi is expensive…if you buy it once you’re in the air. Internet providers know you become more desperate once you’ve boarded the plane and boredom has set in, so they jack their prices way up—a typical day pass costs about $40....

They took deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, and applied 3 million times the atmospheric pressure using the Z machine, shown above. After 200 nanoseconds, the liquid turned reflective, indicating it had become metallic. “The moment we got our first look at the data, we were very excited,” says Mike Desjarlais, the team’s lead theoretical physicist. “After the first several experiments, we had begun to wonder if we would ever see it....

After many delays and huge budget inflations, JWST finally has a launch date. The European Space Agency–which is collaborating with NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Space Telescope Science Institute on JWST–has finally booked a launch for the 21-foot telescope. JWST will fly on an Ariane 5 rocket that launches out of French Guiana in October 2018. Although 2018 has been the telescope’s projected launch date for several years now, signing a launch contract is kind of like the difference between saying you’re going to Thailand next summer and actually buying your plane ticket....