With the light that is emitted from the integrated LED in this bath faucet, you will be able to easily tell if the water is hot, warm, or cold, without the risk of burning a finger or two.
… this unique LED faucet will instantly show you the water temperature by changing colors. If the water is hot, the LED light will change red, if the water is cold, the LED light will turn blue, and if the water is right in the middle or lukewarm, the LED light will turn green.
He came to the stairs. He saw the stairs. And, he conquered the stairs.
Check out this short video of this tiny beagle slowly climbing these two wooden steps. The song from Rocky III, Eye of The Tiger, plays in the video, which makes the clip badass and cute at the same time.
The same puppy also tried to climb from the bed onto the sofa, although without the same kind of success that was had with the stairs.
How come some people say “how come” instead of saying “why”? Where did the phrase come from? How is it different from a simple “why”? Mignon Fogarty tries to give answers to all of these questions over at QDT. For now, here’s her answer to where the phrase “how come” came from.
Well, ”how come" is believed to be short for "how did it come about that," "how is it that," or "how comes it.”
For example, here’s a line from the British poet Edmund Spencer’s “Sonnet 30” that uses the older, longer phrase:
How comes it then that this her cold so great is not dissolved through my so hot desire . . . (That’s from 1611.)
And here’s an even older one from Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” published in 1513.
How comes it that the Church has attained such greatness in temporal power . . .
Even in that type of use, it can be “how come” instead of “how comes” For example, here’s a line from a British book from 1817 talking about young animals:
How come they to run so naturally?
But we love to shorten things. “Pantaloons” became “pants” and “omnibus” became “bus,” and “how comes it that” became “how come.”
With the LED lighting up the semi-transparent chessboard, which then shines through the chess pieces, this chess set from Showcase Plastics gives a futuristic look. The chess set is available in a variety of colors.
Have you ever seen inside a pregnant elephant? Asha is a third of the way through her pregnancy; that's eight months of 22, so the calf isn't due until 2022! Veterinarians at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Gardens took a look with an ultrasound and saw the head, trunk, and legs as the little fellow seems to have plenty of room to move around. Read more about Asha and the zoo's other Asian elephants at Bored Panda.
It is said that birds such as chickens and ostriches are the closest living relatives of the now-extinct Tyrannosaurus rex. It is kind of difficult to believe that the T-rex evolved into a chicken, but I guess that explains why chickens could be aggressive sometimes.
Twitter user Just Jo Nah probably has been inspired by that scientific discovery.
[He] fired up his 3D printer and gave his pet chicken these beautiful T-Rex arms. If you are looking for reason to buy a 3D printer yourself, this is it.
The result is this.
For those who already have a 3D printer at home, he has uploaded a blueprint so you can make a set of arms yourself, and you won’t have to search where to order them online.
As you may know, chickens with doll arms have been featured here some months ago, but this one clearly looks better.
Minnesota — When Katy Morlok cleaned her fridge, she did not want to just throw away the old pear that she pulled out from it. Fortunately, she found some squirrels outside her house, and upon confirming via the Internet that the fruit was safe food for the animals, she decided to give the old fruit to them.
The woman said she saw a squirrel she nicknamed "Lil Red" take the pear and run up a tree.
She was not expecting this to happen next, however.
She said the squirrel reappeared about an hour later and was noticeably off balance. She captured video of the animal repeatedly appearing to almost fall over.
"And then it kind of dawned on me ... oh no, those pears were so old I bet they fermented," Morlok told KMSP-TV. "And then he got drunk and I did not mean to do that so I went out and I grabbed all the pears."
Fortunately, the squirrel seemed okay the following morning.
One of the main problems of wearing a mask while wearing eyeglasses is that your eyeglasses tend to get foggy, which means that you’ll have to remove your glasses and wipe them frequently.
Breath fogs up the interior of their lenses and requires constant cleaning. No matter how fitted the mask, bespectacled people often find it hard to avoid steaming up their lenses.
Surprisingly, there is a very simple way to solve this problem, and it involves taping a band-aid over the bridge of your nose.
On November 12th, neurosurgeon Dr. Daniel M. Heiferman tweeted his mask hack for avoiding steamy glasses. The surgeon does not wear prescription lenses himself, but often wears surgical loupes—magnifying eyeglasses worn in the operating room. Doctors mask up during surgeries, so for years now Dr. Heiferman has been using adhesive cloth bandages over the bridge of his nose. The bandages tape the upper rim of the mask down so that the opening underneath the eyewear is mostly sealed. The surgeon shared a picture of his method, citing the bandage is also useful to anchor the mask if it is slips regularly. In a follow-up tweet he shared a tip for positioning your bandaid: “Put the cotton part of the bandaid on the bridge of your nose with half of it on the mask and half on your face. With the cotton on the bridge, I found my nose didn’t get irritated after many days of use like other tapes would.”
You know the movie It's a Wonderful Life well, but there's always more to learn. A bit of movie trivia will make watching it again this Christmas even more interesting. Some of the trivia is about the production or references that you might not know 74 years later, like the Zuzu Gingersnaps. Others are about its legacy and longevity.
Jake Haendel came close to dying in 2017. He was diagnosed with toxic progressive leukoencephalopathy, caused by the use of adulterated heroin. Haendel did not die, but spent a year unable to move or communicate, while still being painfully aware of bodily sensations, the passage of time, and what was going on around him.
To outside observers, Jake exhibited no signs of awareness or cognition. “Is he in there?” his wife and father would ask the doctors. No one knew for sure. An electroencephalogram (EEG) of his brain showed disrupted patterns of neural activity, indicating severe cerebral dysfunction. “Jake was pretty much like a houseplant,” his father told me.
They had no way of knowing Jake was conscious. In medical terms, he was “locked in”: his senses were intact, but he had no way of communicating.
“I could do nothing except listen and I could only see the direct area in front of me, based on how the staff would position me in bed,” Jake later wrote. The disease had attacked the cables carrying information through his brain and into his muscles, but had spared the areas that enable conscious processing, so he was fully alert to the horror of his situation. He struggled to make sense of this new reality, unable to communicate, and terrified at the prospect of this isolation being permanent.
A 36-year-old elephant named Kavaan was the only Asian elephant in Pakistan until this past weekend. At only a year old, he was given to Pakistan as a gift from Sri Lanka. Kavaan hasn't always been alone, but since his mate died in 2012, he's been the sole elephant at the Marghazar Zoo. Now, after years of work and planning (most notably by Cher), Kavaan boarded a plane bound for a 25,000-acre sanctuary in Cambodia.
And I use the word “boarded” liberally here. It took hours for a team of experts to cajole Kaavan into a custom-built metal crate for the journey, and that was with the help of months of training, some light sedatives (for an elephant, at least), and sturdy chains. His crate was then loaded onto a truck and driven to Islamabad airport on Sunday, where a Russian cargo plane will take him to the 25,000-acre wildlife sanctuary, per the Guardian.
Cher was in Pakistan to see him off, and also in Cambodia to welcome Kavaan after his journey, which went smoothly once the elephant was loaded. Officials hope Kavaan will breed with the Cambodian elephants, bringing some needed genetic diversity to their group.
Owning electric cars will now be more convenient. There’s no need for electric vehicle owners to plug their cars into wall outlets. A wireless charger for electric cars will be available in the future, as car manufacturers are readying their systems to be compatible with the chargers that will be released in the future. The Society of Automotive Engineers is now supported by a lot of automakers and suppliers to develop the universal charging system, as Freep details:
If you use wireless charging for your phone, you know how quickly having to plug in seems as old-fashioned and laborious as carrying a bucket of well water to your house. People will get used to wireless vehicle charging just as quickly.
“It makes EVs more convenient,” IHSA Markit senior analyst Stephanie Brinley said. “Giving customers more choices will expand the market.”
The system delivers DC current up to 11 kilowatts at the maximum voltage the vehicle can accept over up to 10 inches of space between a pad mounted on the floor to a receiver on the vehicle. Charging efficiency is up to 94%, comparable to wired connections. The SAE is working on higher power levels for future passenger vehicles and heavy-duty applications like mining equipment.
When it comes to looking for people lost in the woods, thermal imaging can sometimes be rendered useless, especially when there is vegetation that covers the subsoil, and when the sun heats up the trees to the same temperature of the human body. When these things happen, the accuracy of the thermal camera decreases.
Researchers from the Johannes Kepler University used artificial intelligence to improve thermal imaging camera searches of people lost in the woods.
Testing of the system showed it to be approximately 87 to 95 accurate compared to just 25 percent accurate for traditional thermal images. The researchers suggest their system is ready for use by search and rescue crews and could also be used by law enforcement, the military, or wildlife management teams.
Every year, the people of Halifax, Nova Scotia, send a grand tree to be erected in Boston Common. Why? It's an annual act of gratitude for disaster relief provided to the Canadian city of Halifax over a century ago.
It's December 6, 1917. Canada has been at war for three and a half years. The United States has been an ally in that war for several months. There is a feeling of fraternity between the two nations. That feeling would be strengthened that day and soon afterward.
A French ship packed with explosives blew up in the city's harbor. It was a catastrophic explosion that killed 1,963 people, injured 9,000, and destroyed much of the city. Then a blizzard struck the beleaguered city.
As the Twitter feed for Canadian armed forces in the US describes, the outpouring of help from Americans was huge and immediately. A US warship, the USS Tacoma, immediately steamed to Halifax. The people of Massachusetts raised nearly $2 million in relief funding within an hour and sent a train with doctors and nurses twelve hours after the blast. In a single day, the Maine National Guard established a hospital in Halifax. This American help continued for several months.
Halifax was and remains grateful for what Americans did during the disaster. And so, every year, they cut down a good tree and send it to Boston as an ongoing way to say "Thank you, America."
