A few of the company’s new Farpoint and Fairview Trek packs, which are a travel-backpacking pack hybrid, are on sale as part of this event. The men’s Farpoint Trek Pack 55 is on sale for $164.50, down from $220. The women’s Fairview Trek Pack 70 is on sale for $172.50, down from $230. Each pack includes an AirCover, which protects your backpack in the plane undercarriage or when it rains....
This isn’t the first time this year that pesticides have made headlines. This past August the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would finally ban chlorpyrifos, “one of the most toxic and widely used pesticides on the market” according to the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC). But chlorpyrifos being taken off the market was a small success when removing pesticides from the agricultural industry—some well known toxic chemicals like dicamba, an herbicide that was under fire for being linked to causing cancer, came back on the market in October 2020 after being banned just months before....
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Everyone deserves a hot shower at the end of a long day and the Advanced Elements Summer Shower is the best choice to leave you warm, relaxed, and ready for the next excursion. All you need to do is fill it up and let it sit in the sun while you go out for your day-time adventure. The shower comes with a solar panel, reflector panel, and insulation to help your water heat up and stay warm....
We’ve known for a while now that cycling is one of the most dangerous ways you can use the road, says study author Wesley Marshall, a civil engineering professor at the University of Colorado Denver. But even though cycling is dangerous for cyclists, cities that have a larger proportion of cyclists tend to have safer roads overall—for pedestrians and drivers, too. “Bike friendly cities shouldn’t be safer,” Marshall says. After all, cyclists are the most threatened road users, and more of them on the streets should mean more injuries and deaths....
Originally, Kanner had suggested that children with this disorder were victims of some kind of inherited, biologically based defect. But he had at the same time been intrigued that most of them also had quite odd parents: “psychometrically superior” but “literal-minded and obsessive.” In 1949 he had elaborated: “One is struck again and again by what I should like to call a mechanization of human relationships. . . . They [the parents] were anxious to do a good job, and this meant mechanized service of the kind which is rendered by an over-conscientious gasoline station attendant....
Cities across the country have their own fair share of vermin issues, but somehow rats in New York are meatier, tougher, more present, lurking in MetroCard machines and hopping in strollers, the target of vigilante rat bounty hunter groups working at night and, of course, propped up on sidewalks across the city in the form of Scabby the Rat, New York unions’ enormous inflatable protest symbol. New Yorkers may not know that climate change could be part of what makes these guys so tough....
“Nature did the experiment for us,” says Alan Robock, a climate scientist and co-author on a new paper published in Science who’s been studying nuclear winter since the 1980s. The 1.1 million acres burning across the Northern U.S. and Canada spawned a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. Imagine the massive, dark, powerful clouds that come with a thunderstorm—then add fire and smoke. These mega-clouds produce treacherous storms while simultaneously funneling smoke and aerosols up into the earth’s stratosphere....
The answer: probably not. It seems that most humans still don’t trust smart robots to tell them what to do, which is not all that surprising. What’s more interesting is that it matters whether the robot is presented as the figure in charge or not. If there is another person in charge, and the robot is simply presented as an assistant to the human authority, then people are more likely to trust it for help....
Vocal fold mucosa, the bits of tissue commonly called vocal cords, has unique physical and biological properties. They need to be able to stretch and bend as air moves through them to create vibrations that we know as the voice, but they also can’t rip as they bang together constantly, and the body isn’t able to repair the tissues if they are profoundly scarred or damaged. Doctors can treat minor issues by injecting biomaterials like collagen into the tissue, but these treatments are only temporary and aren’t suitable for people who have more extensive damage....
If you watch the video carefully you can see that at specific sound frequencies we get a static-looking wave pattern. For example, at a certain frequency/pitch we get a pattern of four wave peaks. However, watch what happens when the frequency increases. The pattern disappears for a while until the frequency rises to a (specific) higher value. Then we see five standing wave peaks spring up. So why do these patterns form?...
Long in development, the T-14 Armata is planned both for the eventual replacement of the existing tanks in Russia’s arsenal, as well as for export abroad. Key to the Armata’s design is an uninhabited turret. By removing the need for humans to be physically present next to the gun, the Armata can have a lower profile, making it harder to see and hit in fights. It also lets the tank use cover from natural terrain....
A land war in Europe would be a tragedy for the countries fighting the war, and a crisis for the international community, which has taken steps to see if a path towards deescalation remains. On February 15, President Joe Biden gave a speech about how the United States might respond to a Russian invasion of Ukraine. He promised continued efforts at diplomacy, but also listed a range of policy responses the United States would likely pursue if Russia moved its amassed forces into Ukraine....
The routers can cover a range of up to 4,500 square feet, which means they would be appropriate for a large single-story home or a double-story house. One of Eero’s routers needs to be connected to your cable modem with an Ethernet cable, but the other “satellite” routers can be installed anywhere there’s an outlet. If the idea of managing multiple routers sounds tedious, it’s not bad thanks to Eero’s app, which makes setting them up and troubleshooting problems non-issues....
BUY IT This L-shaped desk from Trent Austin Design is pretty and practical—and you can get it for a perfect price this Cyber Monday. It’s on sale for $229.99, down a whopping 53 percent from its $484.99 OG price. A spacious work surface gives you plenty of room for two monitors, a laptop, a separate keyboard, decor, and even your cat who hates his cat tree but loves your desk. Built-in cable management keeps everything organized, and attached drawers with extension slides can hold letter-sized hanging files to round up loose papers....
April is citizen science month. In a normal year, any curious person, from kindergartner to senior citizen, would have opportunities to get outside and contribute to research, harnessing the power of the crowd to generate useful data for science. While the COVID-19 pandemic has thwarted many of these plans, there is a world of online citizen science projects in need of volunteers—and there’s more than enough data to go around....
Scientists recognize the clear advantage of the assassin approach, of course, and have successfully engineered several targeted cancer-killing drugs over the past few decades. The problem is, assassins ain’t cheap. A single course of targeted drug therapy can cost upwards of $100,000. That’s largely because the drugs take a lot of effort to create–scientists have to first grow human antibodies capable of recognizing enemy cells, and then equip those cells with a weapon by attaching them to toxic molecules....
Skills can be learned through proper, expert-led (and often affordable) online training, but computer and software? Acquiring those typically involves a whole lot of money. The good news is there’s a way to score a super bundle that packs everything you need for maximum productivity. For a limited time, you can grab the Microsoft Office Pro for Windows 2021 + HP EliteBook + Certificate Course Bundle for over 70 percent off....
Although the majority of US newspaper printers still use petroleum-based ink today, there is now consumer pressure to move in the direction of more environmentally friendly options. One of which is soy-based ink. Here’s why the growable ink is considered greener than its petroleum-based counterpart. Soybean oil is renewable and emits less volatile compounds When it comes to determining the sustainability of a product, it often all comes down to where the core resources come from....
The Complete Limited Edition Mac Bundle is put together to turn your Mac into a productivity powerhouse. It packs a dozen award-winning apps for graphics, task management, PDF, cloud, VPN, brainstorming, and a whole lot more. And for a limited time, you can snag all of them on sale for just $17.99 (reg. $1,040) with the code MACBUNDLE40. Here’s a sneak peek of some of the apps you’ll receive with a purchase of the bundle:...
