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- This Japanese Iced Coffee Recipe Is Faster To Make Than The Regular Cold Brew
- The Heart-Shaped Honeycomb
- Gender-Swapped Fictional Characters
- Office Small Talk Is Essential
- Street Cat Named Bob Dies At Age 14
- Drill Music Is Being Used To Teach Philosophy
- Face Shelving
- I'm a Stencil!
- The History of Scholastic Book Fairs
- Meet The First FDA-Approved Prescription Video Game
- Food In Exchange For Grooming
- Is The World More or Less Dangerous?
- Antares Is Bigger Than We Thought
- Synchronized Basketball Is Amazing
- Children Are Exposed To Junk Food Marketing In Social Media
| This Japanese Iced Coffee Recipe Is Faster To Make Than The Regular Cold Brew Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:04 AM PDT If you're a big fan of cold brew, here's a new iced coffee recipe that you might enjoy! Japanese iced coffee is a faster-to-brew version of the regular cold brew, with enthusiasts claiming that the iced coffee is better than cold brew. Japanese iced coffee can be made in under ten minutes, as The Huffington Post details: "I think it is a superior method to cold brew, since you get a chance to unlock more flavor from coffee compounds with the hot water extraction, while still getting an equivalent body as if it were a cold brew," said Julie Nguyen, co-owner of Contra Coffee and Tea in Orange, California. The name derives from a method that's been used in Japan since the 1920s, but it also refers to the use of Japanese coffee equipment, like Hario products, to brew it. Some coffee shops refer to this method of making coffee as flash-brewed, flash-chilled or just iced coffee. image via The Huffington Post  |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:04 AM PDT
Have you seen this picture before? It recently went viral with a caption about a French beekeeper who neglected to insert frames into a beehive, so the bees went freestyle with their comb and managed to come up with a heart shape. Many people thought that was adorable, while some beekeepers were suspicious. Steve Byrne, an internet folklorist, recalled that he had seen the image before. So he decided to investigate and find the story behind the story -the true origin of the honeycomb image. The journey led him back to 2015, then 2013, and to a South African beekeeper who, seven years later, had physical evidence of the honeycomb he grew that year. And we learn how he did it.
You can read the entire story in detail at Twitter, or the simpler Threadreader version if you prefer. -via Nag on the Lake |
| Gender-Swapped Fictional Characters Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:11 PM PDT
People have been having fun with FaceApp and other image manipulation tools to see what they would look like as the opposite gender. I tried one of those many years ago and discovered what my father would look like with long hair. Lately, a new trend has emerged: seeing what fictional characters would look like gender-swapped. The cast of Star Trek: The Original Series looks pretty good! Impressed with that, Geeks Are Sexy went and found plenty of other Star Trek characters, from The Next Generation and later series, in gender-swapped versions. You can see them in this gallery. Next, they decided to use FaceApp to see what the characters from Firefly would look like. Shown above is Captain Malcolm Reynolds. You can see their gender-swapped versions of the entire Firefly cast at Geeks Are Sexy. |
| Office Small Talk Is Essential Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:21 PM PDT
If you're looking forward to stepping up your presence and influence in your workplace, then try making small talk with your coworkers. It's a necessary social practice that can build rapport, which then turns to trust. Licensed career coach Jamie Terran details on building rapport through office small talk: "Rapport is the feeling that allows you to extend a deadline, or overlook smaller mistakes, because it makes it easy for you to remember we're only human. Right or wrong, building rapport through interaction with colleagues could be the thing that gets you the promotion or keeps you in the role you're in." Building rapport applies when you're interviewing, too. People hire people they want to work with, not necessarily who's perfect for the job. Engaging in small talk with your interviewer helps make a positive impression. image via wikimedia commons |
| Street Cat Named Bob Dies At Age 14 Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:21 PM PDT
The cat that inspired A Street Cat Named Bob has died. James Bowen took care of the injured cat in 2007, and decided to look after him. Bowen wrote a book about his and Bob's relationship that became a hit and was made into a movie. Did you know that Bob actually played himself in the movie (along with six lookalikes)? The Guardian has more details: In a statement on the official Facebook page for Bowen's books, the author said Bob had saved his life. He added: "It's as simple as that. He gave me so much more than companionship. With him at my side, I found a direction and purpose that I'd been missing." He said the success they found together was "miraculous", adding: "He's met thousands of people, touched millions of lives. "There's never been a cat like him. And never will again. I feel like the light has gone out in my life. I will never forget him." Paul McNamee, editor of The Big Issue, said: "First Bob changed James Bowen's life, then he changed the world. He meant a great deal to The Big Issue and was a huge part of our story, as The Big Issue was to his story. "Over the years we've reported on his successes and each time we put him on the cover our vendors were delighted. They knew it meant fans would flock to purchase. He represented a second chance and hope and never giving up on somebody, things that are hardwired into The Big Issue DNA. "Our condolences go to James, Bob's loyal companion. Bob saved his life and he's spoken of the success the pair enjoyed through their books and films as being miraculous. He said there's never been a cat like him. We couldn't agree more." image via The Guardian |
| Drill Music Is Being Used To Teach Philosophy Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:20 PM PDT
Philosophy is a hard topic to decipher and teach, especially to younger students. RoadWorks, an organization that teaches social sciences use Drill Music as an opportunity to meet young people on their own intellectual turf. BBC has the details: It's been a couple of years since large sections of the media first started panicking about drill music, questioning if the genre's often violent lyrics were contributing to knife crime in London - sometimes claiming outright that they were. For the youth workers helping young people navigate daily life, it was never that black and white. Instead Ciaran Thapar saw drill as an opportunity to meet young people on their own terms. "How can we use this undeniably organically popular type of music, and our understanding of that music, as a way of connecting with young people who otherwise are being lost to the system right now at unprecedented rates?" Combining drill and education felt natural for Ciaran, a writer who studied political theory. "You literally have kids that are coming into the classroom bouncing off the walls and by the end of it they're calm, they're having conversations. And that's because we've met them on their intellectual turf." image via BBC |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:05 AM PDT
Alexi McCarthy, an art director, designed and built Face Shelving with his son. It's a cute look and easy to build with the step-by-step instructions that McCarthy provides. Screws hold the pieces together. McCarthy mounted the eyes with double-sided poster tape. -via Toxel |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:05 AM PDT
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| The History of Scholastic Book Fairs Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:05 AM PDT
Read about Scholastic Book Fairs at Mental Floss. |
| Meet The First FDA-Approved Prescription Video Game Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:05 AM PDT
EndeavorRx is a FDA-approved prescription game that helps kids between ages eight to twelve who are struggling with ADHD. The game lets users dodge obstacles and collect targets as they traverse through icy wonderlands and lava rivers. Akili Interactive, EndeavorRx' developer, says that the game stimulates neural systems that are intrinsic to attention function, as Slate details: The decision follows seven years of clinical trials. Over five separate studies, researchers examined more than 600 kids to determine whether EndeavorRx could affect their ADHD symptoms. One such study found that 30 percent of the children "no longer had a measurable attention deficit on at least one measure of objective attention" after playing EndeavorRx for 25 minutes a day, five days a week for four weeks. According to Akili, these changes persisted for up to one month following treatment with EndeavorRx. The most common side effects were frustration and headache, which seem mild in contrast to traditional medications. |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:04 AM PDT
The parent barn owl has come back to its nest and to its young after a hunt, bringing with it a vole as food for the young. Unfortunately, the food cannot be easily split, and so only one chick can be fed at a time, while the other five chicks wait (barn owls raise six chicks at once on average, but not all of them hatch at the same time). It wouldn't be surprising if the chicks competed for the food, and then the eldest chick won because it's larger and healthier, taking the food as their price. But we're talking about barn owls here, and they might just be one of the most generous birds on the planet, as the elder owlets sometimes share their meal with their younger siblings. Such cooperative behavior has been reported in adult nonhuman primates and birds, but rarely among young. A young owlet, however, has to be a good younger sibling to its elder sibling if it wants to share food, and so the young owlet decides to groom the elder sibling to "maximize the probability of being fed in return." "I don't know any other species where you can find it," says Pauline Ducouret, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. But scientists weren't sure what prompted the food sharing. Now, observations of nests show that elder barn owlets offer their food to their younger siblings in exchange for grooming, Ducouret and her colleagues report in the July issue of the American Naturalist. More details about this study over at ScienceNews. What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: chdwckvnstrsslhm/ Wikimedia Commons) |
| Is The World More or Less Dangerous? Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:04 AM PDT
With the many technological advancements that the world has seen since the end of World War II, it could be said that wars may be more violent than they were before. After all, new weapons of war mean new ways to kill a person. However, this is not the case at all. Turns out the world has been less violent in the past 30 years, according to this recent study. The study, by mathematicians at the University of York, used new techniques to address the long-running debate over whether battle deaths have been declining globally since the end of the Second World War. The team carried out a "change point" analysis on publically available data sets tracking the number of global deaths in battle since the Napoleonic wars. And what they found was a greater level of peace beginning in the 1990s. Co-author of the study, Professor Niall MacKay from the Department of Mathematics at the University of York, said: "The question of whether the world today has become more or less dangerous is a hotly debated issue among historians. Our study attempts to address this question purely from the perspective of what the data can tell us. "The change for the better our analysis detected over the past 30 years may be due to peace keeping work by global organisations like the UN and increased collaboration and cooperation between nations." The researchers, however, admit that there is room for inaccuracy in their study. Nevertheless, it is a study that could give us hope for a better future. More details about this over at EurekAlert. What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: Pixabay) |
| Antares Is Bigger Than We Thought Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:04 AM PDT
Found around 604 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpius, is the red supergiant star Antares. When scientists estimated its diameter in the past, they determined that about 700 of our own suns could fit in the supergiant. It turns out, however, that Antares is much larger than that, as a new radio map created with the help of two powerful telescope arrays reveals that the red supergiant's atmosphere goes beyond its radius. With this detailed map, the team found that Antares' chromosphere, a gaseous layer that creates a star's outer atmosphere along with its corona, stretches to 2.5 times the star's radius. For context, our sun's chromosphere only extends to 0.5% of our star's radius. "The size of a star can vary dramatically depending on what wavelength of light it is observed with," Eamon O'Gorman, a researcher at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland and lead author of this study, said in a statement. "The longer wavelengths of the VLA revealed the supergiant's atmosphere out to nearly 12 times the star's radius." The star is indeed worthy of being called a supergiant. More details about this over at Space.com. (Image Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello/ Space.com) |
| Synchronized Basketball Is Amazing Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:04 AM PDT
You know what's more epic than synchronized swimming? Synchronized basketball! In this amazing montage, watch as various basketball players unconsciously synchronize their movements with each other during different games. This video was posted by reddit user chocolat_ice_cream on the subreddit Nearly Impossible Odds. Watch it over at the site. (Image Credit: u/chocolat_ice_cream/ Reddit) |
| Children Are Exposed To Junk Food Marketing In Social Media Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:04 AM PDT
Despite being protected against advertisements of tobacco, alcohol, and gambling, children who use social media are still exposed to a health risk in the form of junk food advertisements from junk food companies. The bad news is, there are hardly any restrictions to these kinds of advertisements. This recent study reveals that this is happening on a global scale, which means that kids all around the world are "heavily exposed to unhealthy food marketing, including on TV, online and through outdoor advertising." In our study, we focused on the 16 largest social media platforms globally. These included platforms popular with children, such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Facebook. We examined each platform's advertising policies related to food and drinks. We found none of the social media platforms have comprehensive restrictions on the advertising of unhealthy foods to children. More details about this study over at MedicalXpress. (Image Credit: Fotorech/ Pixabay) |
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