Traeger Ironwood 885 Pellet Grill Review

What is the Traeger 885 Ironwood pellet grill? Pellet grills work much like pellet stoves folks use to heat their homes. A screw-shaped auger pushes a steady stream of pressed wood pellets into a burning crucible, which fills the chamber with smoke and just the right amount of heat. A fan system directs airflow around the chamber to manage how much time the smoke spends around the food. Traeger is the 800-pound gorilla in the pellet cooking space and the $1,500 Ironwood 885 offers its most universally appealing set of features....

December 25, 2022 · 7 min · 1287 words · Alice Torres

Transpod S Hyperloop Plans Zoom Forward

This vehicle would operate on the company’s TransPod Line, which it received around $550 million to build between Edmonton and Calgary, Canada. The total cost for this project is estimated to be around $18 billion. The company, which was founded in 2015, said in March that the ride would take 45 minutes, can carry around 54 passengers, and would cost CAD$90 (around $70). TransPod has already started environmental impact assessments and preliminary construction, on track with its originally proposed timeline in 2020....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 377 words · Michael Row

Uk Is Shutting Down All Coal Plants By 2025

Amber Rudd, the UK’s Secretary of Energy and Climate Change, said in a statement: Coal supplies over 20 percent of the UK’s power, according to The New York Times. The gap in the energy system left by the closing coal plants will be filled by nuclear, gas, and wind power. The timing of the announcement is purposeful. In one week, representatives from governments around the world will gather in Paris for the 21st Conference of Parties also known as COP21 or the climate conference....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 250 words · Eric Ferguson

Un Report 2021 Set New Climate Change Records

The WMO just released its latest State of the Global Climate 2021 report on Wednesday, which evaluates humanity’s global impact on climate across six domains: atmosphere, land, ocean, Earth’s frozen water called the cryosphere, extreme events, and risks and solutions. Four indicators of global warming—greenhouse gases, sea level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification—set new records last year. Concentrations of carbon dioxide reached a new global high in 2020, at 413....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 408 words · Shaun Maxwell

Universal Energy Efficient Adapter To Come

Now, such a device is in the works at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. There, Palmer is creating an adapter that can communicate with its wall socket. When an electronic is hooked up to his “smart” device, it will request the exact amount of voltage it needs–and no more. This is a substantial improvement to current adapters, which use 100 to 200 more volts than necessary. For a few more bucks, customers can also purchase a solar panel to power their adapter, thus bypassing the energy-sucking U....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 94 words · Dan Ybarra

Unsure About Getting The Covid Vaccine Read This

Vaccines are our most powerful tool for bringing the novel coronavirus to heel. There are currently three vaccines against COVID-19 available in the U.S. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was fully approved for people aged 16 and up by the Food and Drug Administration in August (the shots also have emergency use authorization for 12- to 15-year-olds and may soon become available for younger kids). The vaccines developed by Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have received emergency use authorization....

December 25, 2022 · 10 min · 2037 words · Tommie Jones

Use The Kinsey Scale Test To Measure Sexuality

Alfred Kinsey’s spectrum of human sexuality shocked the world when he published it in 1948. His book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, featured extensive interviews with 5300 people—almost exclusively white males along with a paltry number of racial and ethnic minorities about their sexual histories and fantasies. The second volume, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, came out five years later and made equally shocking claims about the inner lives of 5940 women, also almost exclusively white....

December 25, 2022 · 8 min · 1576 words · Michael Spears

Valve Announces Multiple Steam Consoles Will Not Show Them

No, it is not. Since we got almost zero information apart from the fact that these gaming machines are coming out in 2014. Apparently, Valve is working on its own prototype right now to kick out any bugs before releasing the real consoles–and they’re sending out the prototypes to 300 users for testing in the meantime–but that one console won’t be the only one you can choose from. Valve will be teaming up with multiple manufacturers to make different versions of the console, all running on the Steam operating system, but deviating by price, size, loudness, etc....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 183 words · John Bishop

Vibrant Ammonia Free Dyes For At Home Hair Color

Manic Panic’s Classic High Voltage line hair dye is hard to beat. Their dyes are wildly bright, as well as vegan, PETA-accredited, and free of ammonia and parabens. This bright pink shade will pop most over blonde or pre-lightened hair. Mix it with other colors to create your own unique shade, or with their “pastel-izer” to give it an even softer look. Arctic Fox is vegan and cruelty free, and even donates 15 percent of its profits to fight animal cruelty....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 267 words · Carla Holland

Vsco S Dsco Iphone App Makes Gifs As Easy As Snapchat

Welcome to the DSCO. Upon opening the app from the Visual Supply Company, users are treated with a fluid, blackish background. The on-boarding process of the app is simple if you already have a VSCO account, dreadful if you don’t. But after you create an app and choose your desired url, you never have to worry about logging in again. From then on, opening the app brings you straight to the camera view....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 491 words · Anette Jordan

Watch This Fireproof Drone Not Burn

Named Fireproof Aerial RObot System, or FAROS, the drone is built specifically for fires inside skyscrapers, which can be hard to access and assess. FAROS builds off of previous KAIST work, specifically their wall-climbing drones. For drones that fly, making them climb walls may seem as redundant as teaching Superman how to shoot a web, but it means the drone can move around obstacles and stay out of the path of falling debris....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 151 words · Norman Toland

We Can Now Sequence A Whole Human Genome In 26 Hours

Researchers at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO, and the biotech company Edico Genome–the same group that developed the original 50-hour test–have managed to cut that time almost in half by using a new device that performs whole genome sequencing in 26 hours–the fastest sequencing technique to date. Their results were published Tuesday in the journal Genome Medicine. While genome sequencing could help diagnose any individual with an unknown genetic disease, its rapid results are critically important for infants, as their symptoms are relatively vague–often just a fever, weight loss, or a cough–and they don’t yet have the ability to communicate the pain they feel....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 758 words · Deborah Compton

What Animal Do You See In This Image Of A Nebula

This image of the Carina nebula shows only dust, ionized gases, and stars. But there’s a chance a dog on its hind legs looks back at you. Neuroscientists dubbed such recognition “pareidolia”—the human tendency to interpret random stimuli as familiar objects. It’s why people sometimes perceive a smile in a passing cloud or the man in the moon. Two parts of the brain cause facial pareidolia, says Kang Lee, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Toronto....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 227 words · Paula Maxwell

What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving Paul Liebrandt

What are you eating and/or cooking for Thanksgiving? Being that I’m British, I grew up eating turkey on Christmas Day. Even after being in the U.S. for 15 years, I still feel like I’m eating turkey a month early. I usually do Thanksgiving at my house with friends, but I like to put a little British twist on it. On Christmas Day in England you traditionally do roasted turkey, with roast potatoes, brussels sprouts with bacon, cranberry sauce, and sage and onion stuffing....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 377 words · Alfred Logan

What Counts As Drug Use In Sports

The setup of each topic, whether medical marijuana, euthanasia or felon voting, is similar. A single broad question is asked, in this case, “Should performance enhancing drugs (such as steroids) be accepted in sports?” There’s a one-minute (and sometime ten minute) overview that offers an introduction to the issue and several popular pros and cons. The topic is then broken down into subcategories with sub questions such as “are the laboratories used to test athletes credible and reliable” or whether Tiger Woods’ alleged LASIK surgery is ethically equivalent to injecting steroids....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 301 words · Grace Rodgers

What Gives A Black Hole Its Giant Flare

The conclusion comes from observations made by NASA’s Swift Observatory and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). Swift watches for gamma ray and x-ray outbursts, and in doing so, spotted a big flare coming from the supermassive black hole known as Markarian 335 in September 2014. After that, NuSTAR focused its attention on it to catch the end of the flare. After analyzing the data gathered by Swift and NuSTAR, scientists determined they had caught a glimpse of the black hole’s corona ejecting and collapsing....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 171 words · Kelly Eichenlaub

What Orangutan Noises Can Tell Us About Human Speech

A new study published Tuesday in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences could show a bit more of the link between human speech and sounds that our animal cousins make. The new research finds that orangutans produce consonant-like calls more often and of a greater variety than their African ground-dwelling cousins (gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees). While orangutans and humans share about 97 percent of their DNA, chimpanzees and bonobos are more closely related to our species....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 713 words · Frankie Haas

What The Heck Is A Haboob Hint You Can See It From Space

Around 6 p.m. that day, the local National Weather Service warned of an inbound rush of dust-laden, 60-mile-per-hour winds and severe thunderstorm, altogether deemed an “extremely dangerous situation.” Within an hour, Lubbock residents received their first dust storm warning in five years and the motorists among them were advised: “Pull aside, stay alive.” A haboob—an enormous, storm-born front of dust—was on its way. Matthew Cappucci, a meteorologist for The Washington Post, found himself face-to-face with the haboob....

December 25, 2022 · 6 min · 1277 words · David Kutner

What The Pact Act Means For Us Veterans Health

Danovich didn’t think too much of it at the time. Occasionally, he would get short of breath and have to pull out an inhaler, which he’d never had to use prior to deployment—but he figured that might have to do with the smoking habit he’d picked up. Then, two years ago, Danovich was diagnosed with early-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of blood cancer often related to chemical exposure. When tests came back showing no genetic precursors to the condition, which suggested that the diagnosis might be the result of an environmental exposure, Danovich immediately thought back to those burn pits at Mosul....

December 25, 2022 · 5 min · 1001 words · Annie Heath

What To Know About Qr Code Scams

QR codes found in public places are transporting more and more people to fraudulent websites run by scammers. The latest trend in this rising new form of financial crime is centered around pay-to-park meters. Early in January, the Austin Police department issued an announcement warning residents that “fraudulent QR code stickers were discovered on City of Austin public parking meters. People attempting to pay for parking using those QR codes may have been directed to a fraudulent website and made a payment....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 680 words · Jennifer Vesco