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• The Exact Amount Of Coffee You Should Drink
• Final Hours In Pompeii, Animated
• 110 Million-Year-Old Lizard Preserved In Amber
• Beverly Hilton Mural Mystery
• High School Student Discovers And Publishes New Calculus Technique
• Familiar Songs Played on a Toy Piano
• The 50 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time
• A Hidden Gem in the Terms and Conditions

The Exact Amount Of Coffee You Should Drink Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:40 AM PST After years of research on coffee, experts have found the optimal amount of the delicious caffeinated drink we need to drink for maximum health and brain benefits. Three cups of coffee a day is good enough, according to Harvard-trained psychiatrist, trained nutrition specialist, and trained chef, Dr. Uma Naidoo.  Studies that focused on coffee consumption and its effect on the cognitive health of men and women show us that coffee drinkers had less than half the cognitive decline as the non-coffee drinkers did. Participants of these studies that had the least decline healthwise drank at least three cups a day. Now there's my excuse when my parents tell me I drink too much coffee– I haven't even passed the minimum recommended amount!  Image credit: Nathan Dumlao

Final Hours In Pompeii, Animated Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:39 AM PST Australian tech company Zero One Studio created an animation that depicts the destruction of the once glorious city of Pompeii. The video was formed from the bits and pieces of historical evidence obtained by experts through the years. Initially premiered in A Day in Pompeii, an exhibition held at theMelbourne Museum in 2009, the video can also be seen on the studio's YouTube account. The animated short gives the viewers the perspective of someone atop a villa, watching Mount Vesuvius erupt and destroy the city over the course of 48 hours.   (via My Modern Met)

110 Million-Year-Old Lizard Preserved In Amber Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:39 AM PST Scientists usually get prehistoric insects preserved in amber, perfectly holding their insides for analysis. In a new discovery, it seems that amber can also hold lizards well! A new extinct species of lizard was trapped in Burmese amber, perfectly preserved. The lizard, a member of the Retinosaurus hkamentiensisspecies, was discovered to still have its scaly skin and skeleton intact. The good quality of the lizard's remains shocked paleontologist Andrej Čerňanský of Comenius University and his team. "We were able to study not only a skeleton, but even the external appearance (scalation) of the lizard," Čerňanský told SYFY WIRE. "In fact, we can study the animal in the same way that herpetologists study modern species." Read more about the discovery here!  Image credit: Joseph Bevitt/Edward Stanley/Andrej Čerňanský et al

Beverly Hilton Mural Mystery Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:38 AM PST A nine-panel glass mosaic was discovered during renovations for a new restaurant at the Beverly Hilton hotel. Now, the artwork is being displayed behind the bar at the rooftop restaurant, called Sant'olina. Seven of the nine panels display different figures from classical mythology. While the mosaic is stunning and pleasing to look at, part of its appeal comes from the mystery that accompanied it. The creator of the artwork was initially unknown. Hints of letters that were enigmatically placed on the panel were the only clues the Hilton had. After hard digging, the company found out that it was created by  Dale Owen and Robert Mallory, and was installed when the hotel opened in 1955. The artwork was hidden behind a wall in 1944, for it to only resurface now.  Image via The Art Newspaper

High School Student Discovers And Publishes New Calculus Technique Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:38 AM PST A 17-year-old discovered a calculus technique that solved integral equations. The high schooler, named Glenn Bruda, stumbled upon it when he woke up in the middle of the night to fetch a glass of water. He was ready to go back to sleep when the solution to a formula he had been trying to solve for months hit him.  After revisiting the notes he wrote that night, he cross-checked the newly formed calculus technique with professors at Santa Fe College and the University of Florida. With their encouragement, Bruda published his discovery to Cornell University's "arXiv", an open-access archive for scholarly scientific articles. Bruda named his technique the "Maclaurin Integration" after Colin Maclaurin, a famous 18th-century Scottish mathematician, where his solution was derived from.  Image credit:  Jennifer Bruda

Familiar Songs Played on a Toy Piano Posted: 26 Feb 2022 07:56 PM PST Musician Nahre Sol bought a tiny toy piano that has keys for only two octaves and has the rinky tink sound of a cheap glockenspiel. How do the songs we know and love sound played on this piano? Sol had to rearrange songs to fit into two octaves, and plays a bunch of them for us. Most of the songs are labeled classical, but there are also songs from movies and video games and some surprises. In other words, you've heard them all. Then she rates which ones work on this tiny piano and which don't. There's at least one note on this instrument that's out of tune, but it doesn't get used much. This is one of those videos that may seem long, but once you get started listening to the songs, you can't stop watching. -via Laughing Squid

The 50 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time Posted: 26 Feb 2022 02:58 PM PST Here's a list that will really make you want to argue! MSN went to IMDb and found ratings for science fiction TV series, the ranked the top 50. The results may seem a little strange. For one thing, it skews very much toward recent shows, which can be explained by IMDb itself, which wasn't around 50 years ago, and anything internet-based is skewed toward younger users. For another thing, you have to wonder how they defined "sci-fi series," since it includes fantasy, comedy, animation, and superhero series, and especially animated superhero series. There is only one live-action series based on comic book superheroes in the top 50. The highest any Star Trek series placed is #19. And The Twilight Zone, which is mentioned in the introduction, didn't make the list. What were they thinking? Oh yeah, they were thinking that people would check out the list and argue about its contents. See where your favorites lie in this ranking. -via Fark Sure, that leads us to a whole 'nother question: How exactly does one define science fiction?

A Hidden Gem in the Terms and Conditions Posted: 26 Feb 2022 06:02 AM PST It's become an internet joke that no one reads the terms and conditions, pages and pages of the legalese you need to agree to in order to use a website, or download an app, or sign up for service. You might do it when it's turned into a game or a comic book, but almost always we just agree and go on without reading them. Lucky for us, there are a few rare people who do, and if something really odd or nefarious is hiding in there, they will alert us. We have become so used to skipping a lot of dense reading that people sometimes hide treasure amid the prose to see who will read it. Pro tip: never, ever skip reading terms and conditions for a mortgage. One of those people who actually read the terms and conditions is TikToker @mckenziefloyd's boyfriend, who read through the streaming service Peacock's terms and conditions and found a recipe! It's not just any recipe, but the recipe for Kevin's chili, which you might remember from The Office, in a classic scene where he spilled a huge pot of the chili he was so proud of. You'll find the recipe spelled out at Digg, although it seems quite a bit more complicated than the way I make chili. Or you can read Peacock's terms and conditions to try to find it.

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