Wednesday, September 30, 2015
23 Delicious Things For Your Fall Baking Bucket List
If you bake one thing this fall, let it be all of these things.
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Apple Crisp with Salted Caramel Sauce
Even if you don't make the caramel sauce, this dessert is still keeping it 100. Choose apples that are on the tart side, so all that sweet sauciness has something to stand up to. Recipe here.
Pumpkin Bread with Walnuts
I want to smother this pumpkin bread with butter like an overbearing stage mother. Recipe here.
Baked Cider Doughnuts
Perhaps the most beloved fall dessert of all. Behold: The Apple Cider Donut. And yeah, because these ones are baked, you *do* need a donut pan to make these. Worth it. Recipe here.
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This Hot Aussie Bloke Took The Ultimate Surfing Photo
The young man and the seal.
Meet Aussie surfer Russell Quinn.
Russell was out surfing with his brother Adam at Sussex Inlet on the Australia's east coast last week when a little bit of magic happened.
A seal just straight up launched out of the wave right next him creating this stunning photo.
BuzzFeed spoke to Russell who said it was easily one of the highlights of his 15 years surfing.
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Please Tell Me: Is Candy Corn The Best Or The Worst?
I need answers.
Halloween is coming, which means the return of one very seasonal treat: Candy Corn.
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Some people absolutely love it.
While others think it's the actual worst.
And as a concerned candy consumer who happens to love it, I need to know: Who else is with me, and who's against me?
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I Ate Durian For The First Time And Actually Liked It
All hail the “King of Fruits”.
Confession: I've lived in the Philippines my entire life — that's 22 full calendar years — and I've never eaten durian.
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It's a pretty large fruit with a husk covered in thorns. In the Philippines, durian is largely grown in Mindanao, particularly in the Davao region.
From where I came from, durian — like balut — is always a hit or miss. Personally, I never really thought about it. Probably because I live far away from where the fruit is cultivated. Plus, no one in my family is crazy enough about it to actually buy one from the local supermarket where it's made ~easily accessible~.
I only see (smell?) durian at the fruit section of groceries. Putting a stinky fruit inside a closed, air conditioned room is not the best idea. But grocery shopping is a chore I actually enjoy.
I am the Miranda Priestly of grocery shopping. I have a strategy, and part of that strategy is to avoid the fruit section as much as possible. The reason I do this is because the smell of durian morphs my face into Miranda's when Andy couldn't tell two very different belts apart.
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Whoever first discovered durian and said, "Hey, guys! Check out this stinky fruit! It's a stinky fruit! We should eat this stinky fruit! " is probably too tired of living in this world to do such a risky thing. I mean, if the smell alone doesn't put you off — it smells like shit, there I said it — then the appearance should do the job.
Dude, if you see something spiky and stinky, you don't eat it! You stay away from it! If jackfruits were Charmander — edgy, but also cute and harmless — then durian is Charizard; you don't mess with it unless you're looking for trouble.
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17 Scrumptious Reasons A Punjabi Household Is Heaven On Earth
Sweet lord have mercy. Spice lord have mercy.
We have kickass breakfast options like chhola bhatura.
And halwa puri worth ALL the cholesterol problems.
HHHHNNNNNNNGGGGG.
There's aloo parathas served with a dollop of butter, fresh yoghurt, or pickle.
*Drool fest*
Basically you can't beat us when it comes to carby buttery deliciousness, for e.g. this kulcha...
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Free Apple Music Trial Ends Today
Time to pay.
The much-hyped music streaming platform debuted with a three-month trial period during which Apple waived the $9.99 monthly fee it charges for the service. That offer was Apple's bid to get new users in the door, and pick up some market share from streaming music incumbents like Spotify.
Today, that free trial period ends for anyone who signed up for Apple Music on its first day, June 30. And it's time to decide whether or not it's worth paying for.
Apple is only going to charge you after a full 90 days.
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Here's how to determine when you signed up.
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Patients Are Helping Doctors Understand Asthma By Using iPhones
Since an asthma app built with Apple’s ResearchKit went live six months ago, patients are reporting that they’re exercising more.
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Six months ago, Apple unveiled ResearchKit, an open-source software platform that helps iPhone users participate in clinical trials. The premise: People all over the country would download apps that periodically ask about their health, and scientists would study their answers. Given that there are more than 94 million iPhones in use in the U.S., ResearchKit was touted as a way to conduct clinical studies of potentially unprecedented size and scope.
Today, a team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai revealed data that — while preliminary and not published in a peer-reviewed journal, as is standard in scientific research — suggests that the program may be working as intended. This group, along with app developers at LifeMap Solutions, were the forces behind an app for patients with asthma — one of the first five ResearchKit apps released in March.
Some 50,000 people downloaded the app and 8,600 of them enrolled in the study. Of those, about 2,000 use the app regularly, according to researchers. About 87% of users report living outside New Jersey and New York, where Mount Sinai is located (participants in traditional studies usually live close to where the study's being done). In addition, participants tended to report having severe asthma.
One of the most surprising findings: Patients have on average reported exercising more over the last six months, researchers said. While it's true the scientists have never personally witnessed these workouts, they say the participants' iPhones back up their claims. The devices' motion sensors continuously collect data on the user's walking, running, and other physical activities, provided that the user is carrying the phone or wearing a fitness tracker that feeds data into the phone. And the phones showed a significant increase in steps over the same time period.
"We capture a patient's vital signs at the doctor's office maybe once a year or every two months," Dr. Yvonne Chan, director of personalized medicine and digital health at the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai and principal investigator of the ResearchKit study, told BuzzFeed News. In contrast, with the app, "all of a sudden you could literally have millions of data points on their blood pressure — or whatever we're measuring — and for the first time we can capture the nuances and the fluctuations that occur from seconds to minutes to hours that have never been seen before. It blows my mind a little bit what we're able to do now."
The app reminds participants to take their asthma medications, notifies them about air pollutants in their area, and prompts them to keep a daily diary of their triggers, symptoms, and attacks. For patients, Chan said, the result of these combined interactions may be "greater insight into their own disease process," better management of their asthma, and better capability for exercise.
Like with any study, there are limitations. Only people who can afford iPhones, iPads, or iPod touches can use ResearchKit apps. So far, Chan said, participants skew toward being male and college-educated, with reported incomes of at least $60,000.
In the future, participants' electronic medical records may be built into the app so their doctors can see and react to their asthma attacks instantly, Chan said. Her team is currently testing an integration with Epic, the electronic medical record provider, with some Mount Sinai patients.
The Icahn School's asthma app is the first ResearchKit team to release preliminary findings. MyHeart Counts, which tracks heart health, expanded in August to users in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. In June, a team at the University of California, San Francisco, launched The PRIDE Study to identify and study lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer health issues. More than 14,000 people have enrolled since late June, researchers told BuzzFeed News.
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