But there’s a way to pick up a new language without the hassle. Dubbed as the #1 language-learning app in the world, Babbel is developed by over 100 expert linguists to help millions of people assimilate to a new language quickly, and with confidence. For a limited time, you can grab it on sale at a special price of just $199 (reg. $499). Did you know that in the U....
Boasting rave reviews on various sites, such as 4.6 out of 5 stars on GetApp and 4.3 out of 5 stars on TrustPilot, Koofr offers an intuitive and user-friendly interface where you can easily manage, sort, locate, and preview files with no size limits. High-speed transfers and secured backup space give you plenty of freedom to quickly rename multiple files, remove unnecessary duplicates with its Koofr Duplicate Finder, and access everything on your laptop or phone through the dedicated Koofr app....
But there truly is a better way: Build a storage rack on the inside of a kitchen cabinet door. By turning this normally unused space into something functional, you’ll make your home a little more organized, and you’ll avoid being associated with someone who tries to slice a loaf of bread with a wooden doorstop. That’s company no one wants to keep. Warning: DIY projects can be dangerous, even for the most experienced makers....
Now imagine that you’re facing that same beach with a widescreen high-definition video recorder. The whole shoreline is in your lens, and you’re recording it all—the diameter of every grain of sand, the movement of every wave—in an image that can later be viewed from any angle you choose. That’s what the ONE does when taking pictures of your innards. The machine, which took 10 years and $500 million to develop, could change the way doctors diagnose and treat such illnesses as stroke and heart attack, making many standard tests unnecessary....
Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang regularly does explosive events like this. However you want to interpret their meaning, they’re quite a spectacle. Here he set up three separate explosions on the National Mall, blowing up 2,000 black smoke drops attached to the 40-foot tree. See you in 364 days, Christmas. Smithsonian
Within a roughly 600-light-year radius from the center of our galaxy, there is a dense region of stars and the molecular gas that feeds the formation of said stars. Prior to star formation, this molecular gas is pulled into vast molecular clouds that are pulled into two elliptical orbits around the black hole that anchors the galaxy at the center by magnetic field lines that exist there. These two massive loops of molecular gas are nested, one inside the other, but they intersect at two points on the galactic disc, and at these intersections both the molecular gas clouds and the magnetic fields collide, changing the behavior of both....
She’s halfway through the take when the gulls arrive. They swoop and swirl above the shoreline in a swarm, calling in harsh, jeering tones that drown out her carefully chosen words. As the sound technician pulls off her headphones in frustration, the director Oliver Twinch halts the taping and ventures a smile in Wolfe-Simon’s direction. “How about we try that one again?” he says. “I think we’ll have to move,” Wolfe-Simon says, peering down toward her boots....
But in addition to an impression of the seal itself, the warm wax also recorded something else–the fingerprints of people applying the seal to the document. Now, researchers at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom are taking a closer look at these old fingerprints using modern forensics. Over the next three years, researchers will examine the fingerprints left on the seals of hundreds of documents from the Medieval period in a project called Imprint....
Just off the coast of the Keys, wind-driven swells toss our little boat like a bath toy. Nearly 30 feet below, in the blue murk, divers tend their plot: a sparse patch of sea-floor 10 meters square. One swimmer hovers over a brain coral the size of a fishbowl, studying its corduroy surface as she readies a syringe in one hand. She dispenses a droplet of white putty and dabs it onto the edge of the colony....
A group of physicists have leapt even closer to the ultimate limit of how much scientists think objects can be magnified. This group previously held the world record for the highest resolution achieved with a microscope. Their latest work, published in Science, shrinks that record even further. “This is the highest-resolution imaging in human history,” says David Muller, a physicist at Cornell University and one of the paper’s authors. You won’t get resolution anywhere near this high with the sort of microscopes that you might have used in school....
We love firing up the grill to cook the new beef cuts that have become available in recent years, but it’s possible to achieve that perfect sear on the stovetop, too. Here’s how: Salt your steak well before cooking for the deepest seasoning and best browning. Salting overnight is best, but if you can’t plan that far ahead, try seasoning your steak with kosher salt for at least an hour before cooking....
“Any images we make are fuzzy, as though you’re looking at a small light through frosted glass,” says Shep Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. So astronomers are linking 11 telescopes around the world into one Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), named for the spacetime boundary where the black hole’s gravity prevents the escape of light and matter. When an upgraded ALMA joins in 2015, it should make EHT 10 times more sensitive and may help bring Sagittarius A*’s shadowy edge into focus....
But you don’t necessarily want to leave your smart home devices configured in the normal way if you’re going to be away for an extended period of time. There are special options and modes available specifically for those times when you’re taking a trip. You don’t want to waste energy and money heating an empty building while you’re on vacation, and your smart heating system will be up to the challenge....
The structure is between 60 and 100 feet long and was found sticking out of the sand over Thanksgiving weekend, near homes that had collapsed during November’s Hurricane Nicole. “Whenever you find a shipwreck on the beach it’s really an amazing occurrence. There’s this mystery, you know. It’s not there one day, and it’s there the next day, so it really captivates the imagination,” maritime archaeologist Chuck Meide told the AP....
Don’t stick you finger in the electrical socket! That’s one of the first things you learn as a kid, right? Otherwise, as all proper cartoons show, you’ll end up with singed eyebrows and a wild poufy Einstein-style ‘do. But all joking aside, electrocution is a serious business. People die from electrical burns, whether they have been hit by lightening or deliberately executed in the electric chair. (If you’re worried about the former, and you find yourself the tallest object in an open field during an electrical storm, LIE DOWN....
For restaurant owners, this is a huge opportunity to push for sustainable eating. New research seems to suggest that it’s possible for restaurants to move their customers toward low-emissions eating through menu design reconfigurations. Putting carbon labels on menus and switching defaults may reduce carbon emissions A recent study published in PLOS Climate found that the design of restaurant menus is capable of influencing customers’ dish choices. Make those dish choices more climate-friendly, and there’s a chance for a reduction in the carbon footprint of the meal....
But a preliminary analysis of seismic data suggests that unrest leading up to the eruption actually became detectable four years before the volcano blew its top. Understanding how this volcano, which had been dormant for 50 years, reactivated could help improve future eruption forecasting and volcanic hazard assessments, says Marc-Antoine Longpré, a volcanologist at Queens College in New York, who published the findings on December 2 in Science. “That’s the rationale for looking at this—hoping that in the future when the volcano wakes up again…we will be better prepared to say what might happen and over what kind of period of time,” he says....
Unfortunately, the biocides within these paints are the cause of frequent concern from environmentalists, as they remain within water systems for decades while harming local ecosystems by poisoning species and their environment. Recently, scientists showcased how an existing alternative to popular copper-based antifouling agents is not only potentially better for the environment, but also appears to be more effective. In a collaborative study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers tested biocide-free, silicone-based coatings alongside more traditional copper-based paint at three Baltic Sea region sites, only to find that the silicone kept surfaces cleaner for a longer period of time than its toxic forebears....
Whatever the reason, there is no excuse for not going all in. To turn your home into a proper nightmare hellscape, you need to make sure your commitment shines through in all the little details. And the big, blood-soaked ones, too. A little translucent projection material over your window, compact LED projector, and the right atmospheric DVD and your house isn’t just the one people stop and nod their appreciation at—it’s the one they openly stop and gawk at....
It was recently announced that Project M would cease development. While it’s still available to download, the team behind Project M will no longer update the game. The r/smashbros section of Reddit provides instructions on how to still obtain the game. But with the attention to detail we’ve seen in the latest iteration—Super Smash Bros 4—Project M may be less necessary. Masahiro Sakurai, the game’s creator, addressed many of fans’ complaints....
