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Video: How to Trick a Baboon into Revealing Its Secret Watering Hole
Next time you're in the Kalahari Desert and need to find out where water is, here's how to trick a baboon into leading you to its watering hole. You just have to catch one, feed him salt to make him thirsty, let him go, and chase him to the water source.Video: Cat Drinking Water With its Paw, and Other Drinking Methods
How does a cat drink water? Let me count the ways. It can dip its paw into a bowl and lick the water off; it can stick its head under a faucet and catch the water that drips off its head...And if you're wondering whether "cats drinking water" is food-related enough, I say "yes." Watch the video to decide for yourself.How Clean Is Your Tap Water?
Click here for bigger. [Image: GOOD Magazine] GOOD Magazine reminds us that tap water may look clear and safe, but there could be a lot of nasty gunk hiding in there—and oftentimes it's legal. They've listed the top five cleanest and dirtiest U.S. water utilities. Among the cleanest: Arlington Water (Fort Worth, Texas) and Providence Water (Providence, Rhode Island) and, drum roll, the dirtiest: Emerald Coast Water Utility (Pensacola, Florida), City of Riverside Public Utilities (Riverside, California), and Las Vegas Valley Water District (Las Vegas). To check the safety of your faucet water, go here. Related Video: 'Look Around You - Water' Snapshots from Paris: Perrier with Smaller Bubbles Should Restaurants Charge for Filtered Water?...Video: 'Look Around You - Water'
What is water? According to Look Around You, it's impossible to describe, but they carry out a few highly controlled experiments to unlock the mysteries behind this element, H-twenty. Watch this video after the jump....Snapshots from Paris: Perrier with Smaller Bubbles
"It was more sparkly than Badoit, less sparkly than the green Perrier in a can." [Photographs: Kerry Saretsky] I was baking like a clam in the Luxembourg gardens one boiling hot day recently. It was time for a can of Perrier. Yes, a can. I love how its looks like soda. An older American ex-pat with a round belly looked up at me and scolded, “The French never drink Perrier.” “Well, my parents are French and they drink Perrier!” They buy cases of it at Costco every two weeks. “The bubbles are too big.” He closed his eyes and sunk back into the heat. Hmph. I marched off to the little pagoda and demanded my cold can of Perrier. And...Fiji Water Responds to 'Mother Jones' Story
A post on the Fiji Water Blog attempts to answer the issues brought up in a recent Mother Jone article: "The real irony here is that the reporter suggests that buying FIJI Water somehow legitimizes a military dictatorship, when in fact the jobs, revenues, and community projects supported by FIJI Water are strong contributors to growth in the well-being of the Fijian people." Oh, and there's a Mother Jones response to the response in the comments of the Fiji Water Blog post. [via attgig]...Fiji Water Exposé
From an interesting article on Mother Jones by journalist Anna Lenzer, who visited Fiji in an attempt to get the lowdown on Fiji Water outside of the typical press junkets the company normally brings reporters in on: "Shut up!" he snapped. He rifled through my bags, read my notebooks and emails. "I'd hate to see a young lady like you go into a jail full of men," he averred, smiling grimly. "You know what happened to women during the 2000 coup, don't you?"Eventually, it dawned on me that his concern wasn't just with my potentially seditious emails; he was worried that my reporting would taint the Fiji Water brand. [via The Awl]...Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 75: Can (and Should) I Give Up the Flavored Liquid Habit?
I've read all the literature on how important drinking plain water is to any meaningful weight loss effort, but I must admit I am having trouble giving up flavored liquids cold turkey. I have managed to kick the Diet Coke habit. But I certainly haven't given up on diet sodas or soft drinks as a whole. Last night I posted about the joys of Fresca. I drink Snapple Diet Cranberry Raspberry Drink because it doesn't have any caffeine. When I'm up on Cape Cod, I drink Cape Cod Cranberry Dry. It's a local soda made with 5% cranberry juice concentrate. I know I shouldn't, but I drink a bottle a day of the stuff. At least I did last week....Tap Water Now Available at Millennium in San Francisco
Last week we told you about Millennium restaurant in San Francisco charging customers $1 for filtered water (with no free tap water option). After reading reactions from San Francisco Chronicle readers, they've rethought the approach. "It's clear from your recent blog and the responses to it that it makes sense to offer our guests a choice if they want just good old Hetch Hetchy tap water for no cost," said general manager Erica Culp....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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