Our own Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, much like the one featured in this newly shared image captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. What you’re seeing is NGC 691, a spiral galaxy that’s roughly 120 million light-years away.
This beautiful image is more than just a snapshot, thoughHubble doesn’t operate all on its own. An image like this pulls together the details the space telescope is able to discern across multiple wavelengths. Those filtered images are then collected and handed off to a scientifically minded art team that decides which colors best represent each filter. Read more…
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Simone Biles is back in competition, so it’s been another great week for fans of sensational gymnastics routines.
The gold medal-winning Olympian is well on her way to participating in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in July and August, with a superior performance on the first night of the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. She finished the night with the top score in three of the four events she competed in, including the one below (and her score is good enough for second place in the fourth event, bars).
Simone Biles closes out night 1 on top of the leaderboard after a powerhouse of a performance on floor. 💥@Simone_Biles // #USGymChamps pic.twitter.com/tsmDapx1KP
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) June 5, 2021 Read more…
June 4, 2021 was the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests in Hong Kong.
Naturally, more people than usual would look up pictures from the 1989 protests on that day. And, of course, the most infamous photos from Tiananmen Square are that of “tank man,” a single Chinese man — who is still unidentified to this day — that stood in the way of Chinese military tanks cracking down on the protests.
If users in the U.S. tried to search “tank man,” on Google Images, this is what they’d see:
However, if they attempted an image search on Microsoft Bing, they would have seen a very different results page: Read more…
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DASH DCSJ255 Deluxe Compact Power Slow Masticating Extractor — $79.99
NutriBullet Centrifugal Juicer — $79.99
Oster Easy-to-Clean Professional Juicer — $99.99
Eating healthier doesn’t have to require some rigid, miserable diet and counting calories in an appBlenders, air fryers, and juicers are simple appliance buys that can transform the way you eat. If you’re big on the taste of fruits and veggies already, juicing is a great way to squeeze the most nutrients out of the stuff you already love. Drinking a green juice is way faster than eating a salad in the car — not to mention those citrus drinks are so refreshing. Plus, juicing is a way to slip in those veggies that you don’t particularly care for. In an apple and celery juice, you’re mostly just going to taste the apple, but get the nutrients and benefits of both. Read more…
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BEST FOR SLOW JUICING
Omega J8008C Juicer Extractor
This is the cream of the crop for masticating juicers, as its slow speed gets the max nutrients out of everything.
Weight: 13 pounds
Type: Masticating
Slowest speed: 80 RPM
$290.99 from Amazon
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BEST QUICK-SPEED JUICER
Breville JE98XL Juice Fountain Plus
This amazing juicer can pump out a full 8-ounce glass of juice quickly, but beware of froth and pulp left behind.
Weight: 9.9 pounds
Type: Centrifugal
Top speed: 12,000 RPM
Juice container capacity: 35.2 fluid ounces
$149.95 from Amazon
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BEST FOR LUXURY JUICING
Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite
Simply one of the best juicers you can get, from the trusted brand name to the luxe design you’ll want to show off.
Ready to spice up your Netflix queue with some full-throttle action?Â
Whether you’re a fan of science fiction or secret intelligence, car chases or rooftop combat, Neo or Indiana, super pigs or James Bond, there’s an action movie for every kind of adrenaline seeker on Netflix. The streaming service has classics as well as fresh installments — plus a smattering of original projects all their own. With so much streaming, it can be an overwhelming task to choose an adventure.
But kick back and try to relax. We’ve picked the 16 best action movies on Netflix streaming now just for you. (And if you’re looking for the best thrillers on Netflix, we can help you there too.) Read more…
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SAVE $10.05:ResidentEvil Village is on sale at Walmart as of June 4 — grab a copy for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, or Xbox One/Series X for just $49.94 (normally $59.99).Â
Holding out for a decent discount on Resident Evil Village? Well, lycans and gentlemen, we thank you for waiting: Capcom’s new first-person survival horror game — now a bona fide bestseller — just went on sale at Walmart.
As of June 4, you could grab a copy there for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, or Xbox One/Series X for only $49.94 — that’s a little over $10 off its suggested retail price of $59.99.
SEE ALSO: PlayStation’s Days of Play sale is live — here are the best deals Read more…
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Amid the worst Southwestern drought in at least 400 years — and easily one of the worst sustained droughts in over a millennium — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has asked the denizens of Utah to pray for rain:
“By praying together and collectively asking God or whatever higher power you believe in for more rain, we may be able to escape the deadliest aspects of the continuing drought,” Gov. Cox said on Thursday.Â
The 20-year drying trend in Utah and the greater Southwest is prolonged, and exacerbated by record Utah dryness in 2020, because a relentlessly warming climate is drying out the land. It’s a “hot drought.” This means precipitation trends overall in the Southwest haven’t changed much over the last half-century, but with added heat, more water is now evaporating from rivers, plants, soils, and snowpack. This makes it easier to fall into drought spells, and harder to get out, climate scientists say. Read more…
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Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with a batch of recently released emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s official government account.
If you’ve been on social media at all over the past few days, you may have seen #FauciEmails trending. Or you may have seen your own family and friends sharing screenshots of the emails along with commentary about the big reveals and discoveries uncovered from the email release.
But here’s the truth: There are no big reveals. There are no bombshells.Â
Let’s break down the misinformation that’s being spread around so you can avoid it.
For starters, the emails are real. They are from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. They weren’t hacked, either. (We’re so used to hearing about email archives obtained by hackers and dumped online that it’s an easy assumption to make.) The emails were obtained legitimately by media out like The Washington Post and BuzzFeed using Freedom of Information Act requests. Read more…
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A viral tweet is bringing the fanfiction community together under the lyrical genius of Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years,” and it’s bringing a long-running Tumblr meme format to Twitter.Â
The song was written for the 2011 masterpiece The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 but, thanks to the enduring enthusiasm of the Twilight fandom, it resides in the hallowed halls of evergreen meme material.Â
Emma Logsdon, a Twitter user and fanfiction enthusiast, brought “A Thousand Years” back into the spotlight with a viral lyric video that used titles on the fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own for each lyric. Read more…
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