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Open your beer and drink it with this all in one Pop n’ Pour Beer Mug. This is the glass beer mug with the built-in bottle opener on the bottom. So convenient. It’s a thick glass mug with a handsome diamond cut pattern around the lower portion that holds 24 delicious ounces of beer. And it opens your bottles. Underneath the glass is a stainless steel bottle opener. The mug’s handle helps give you some leverage to pop those tops too.

But wait, that’s not all. The bottom also has a magnet so those beer caps stick after being removed from their bottles. It’s just that easy, even if you’re on your 3rd beer (or 4th, 5th, or… ok maybe at this point it’s not that easy, better take a break there). Works with soda bottles too, or any other beverage that comes in bottles. Once you pop, you can’t stop.

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If the eyes are the window to the soul, then the mouth must be the window to endless nightmares. The business ends of many, if not most, of the planet’s creatures are terrifying. They’re gorgeous and horrible instruments honed over millennia by evolution to grab, gouge, tear, and destroy things—often flesh of other animals. Here, 10 such critters with scary, grotesque and/or downright weird teeth, tongues, and jaws that you wouldn't want to smooch on Valentine's Day.

1. Horned Frog 

South America’s horned frogs munch on bugs like many of their brethren, but the big-mouthed amphibians (whose large maws earned them the nickname Pacman frogs) also take on larger prey. They grab lizards, snakes, rodents, crabs, and even other frogs with their sticky tongues and pull the prey—which is sometimes as large as themselves—into their mouths. Their secret to landing such big items is a very strong tongue. Last year, scientists in Germany measured the pulling forces of the frogs’ tongues and found they averaged around 1.4 times the frog’s body weight. “Translated into human dimensions, that would be an 80-kilogram [176-pound] person lifting 112 kilograms [246 pounds] just by using his or her tongue,” one of the researchers, Thomas Kleinteich, told National Geographic. 

2. Emei moustache toad

One month a year, the normally bare-faced male emei moustache toads grow a variation on the facial hair that gives them their name. It’s like an amphibian version of Movember, but instead of being fuzzy fashion accessories, the moustaches are made of a row of hard keratin spikes and meant for fighting. During the toads’ short mating season, the males battle for nesting sites and the chance to mate by grappling and trying to stab each other’s soft undersides with their weaponized cookie dusters. 

3. Python

Pythons regularly swallow large animals—antelope, alligators, even people—whole. How do they not choke to death? The opening to the python’s windpipe, called the glottis, can actually extend outside of the snake’s mouth so it can keep breathing with its mouth full.

4 and 5. Camel and Leatherback Sea Turtle

Camels and sea turtles: Both kind of cute as long as you never catch one mid-yawn. Both animals’ mouths look something like the Sarlaac from Return of the Jedi, a horrible chasm covered in growths that could pass for either teeth or tentacles at first glance. Those things are actually papillae, which help camels, leatherbacks and some other animals with eating by pushing food down their gullets. In the turtles’ case, they also keep a grip on jellyfish, prevent them from slipping back out of the mouth, and protect the turtle from stings. 

6. Cookie cutter shark

Cookie cutter sharks are just two feet long, but instead of chomping down on smaller prey appropriate to their size, they’ve mastered hit-and-run attacks on larger animals, nibbling off a bit of flesh here and a bit of flesh there. As the misleadingly cute name implies, cookie cutters take these meaty morsels out in round little chunks. They do this by suctioning onto prey with their mouths, anchoring themselves with their upper teeth, and twisting and rotating their bodies while slicing into their victim with their serrated lower teeth until a circular cut is complete. The sharks have been known to feed like this on dolphins, whales, seals, other sharks, naval submarines, and, in the first documented attack on a person, marathon swimmer Michael Spalding.

7. Stoplight loosejaw 

The stoplight loosejaw is another fish whose name should give you an idea of its M.O. Its long lower jaw, which accounts for 20 percent of its total length, has no floor and can be thrust out to spear prey (the “stoplight” part of the name, meanwhile, comes from the fact that it produces red light from special organs on its head). This adaptation, and the fish’s large fangs, led scientists to believe that loosejaws ate fish and shrimp, but studies of their stomach contents show they mostly prey on copepods. These tiny crustaceans likely provide the chemicals that the fish need to see the red light they produce for hunting and communication. 

8. Goblin Shark

The goblin shark can pull a similar trick and launch its upper and lower jaws forward. 

9. Moray Eel

The moray eel has two sets of jaws, like the Xenomorphs in the Alien movies. After the eel bites into a fish with its main jaws, the second set moves forward from its throat, latches onto the food, and pulls it into the esophagus.

10. Trap-jaw ant

The trap-jaw ant Odontomachus bauri has the smallest mouth on this list, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in speed. The ant’s “spring-loaded” mandibles snap shut at 145 miles an hour—one of the fastest bites in the world. They’re useful not just for dismembering prey, but also getting out of tough situations. When they close, the mandibles strike with a force that can “exceed 300 times the ant’s body weight,” says biologist Sheila Patek, and the ant can fling itself away from danger by snapping its jaws against the ground. 

Bitter. Salty. Sour. Sweet. More recently, umami. The tastes science has blessed. This week researchers branched out, publishing findings in Flavour: Fat is the sixth taste. (Not to be confused with the Sixth Sense, which flattens substantially once the surprise is over.)

Chefs and bartenders beat science to the bench — we’ve seen a resurgence of fat in high mixology and haute cuisine, luxuriating in bacon fat and coconut oil melted into cocktails; of pig’s tails and chicken skin pressure-cooked to crispy perfection. Remember: the right alcohol offers counterpoint to every fatty extravagance.

Charleston chef Sean Brock, featured on the PBS series The Mind of a Chef, captures this essence in an episode exulting the best of southern indulgence when he wraps up with the steps to make a Rattlesnake cocktail, a “boozy slushie” of bourbon, lemon, absinthe, egg white, and ice. It’s the edge to rejuvenate the palate.

The next time you pull a bottle off the shelf or pour a brew into a glass, consider the fat to accompany it. A few suggestions:

• Cajun popcorn (popped on a stovetop, served heavy on the butter and Old Bay) – ideal to accompany an Imperial IPA. (Ballast Point’s Grapefruit Sculpin is my early forerunner for favorite IPA of the year.)
• Dark chocolate with caramel and black sea salt – more than just the fat in the chocolate and caramel, the salt adds is an extra note against the bracing glory of an Islay or other heavily peated Scotch. (Not to knock Scotland, but India’s Amrut Cask Strength Peated Single Malt is the top choice on my shelf right now.)
• Purple Haze or other herbal goat cheese topped with lemon curd – sweet, tart and leaves a luxurious film on the tongue, which exaggerates the jammy notes and tannins in a good port. (I’m fond of Bogle Petite Sirah Port as an accessible, affordable dram.)

What are your favorite sixth taste pairings?

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Not sure if any of you recall, but last year, HBO worked out a deal with some rappers and had them drop a mix tape based around Game of Thrones. For the uber-geeks who don’t know what a mix tape is, it is basically an underground album, in this case, with all songs being based around the fantasy series GOT. It was a smart (albeit quite contrived) viral business move, but one that seemed to work as they are repeating it. This time they have thrown some rock bands in for good measure (which makes sense because rockers LOVE singing about high fantasy. No really).

From Flavorwire:

 Catch the Throne: The Mixtape, Vol. 2. HBO has announced it’ll be releasing this follow-up to last year’s mixtape in March, and that it’ll feature Snoop Dogg and Method Man, as well as metal acts Anthrax and Killswitch Engage, all cohered by a thematic focus on George RR Martin’s series’ titular elements; some might say, in fact, that these are all actual “song[s] of ice and fire.” All fifteen songs will feature samples from the Season 4 soundtrack.

I had to cover this story for a different site last year when it dropped, and my thoughts have not changed. There is something inherently hilarious about hardcore rappers who claim they came from the streets spitting rhymes about ‘the Mother of Dragons.’ That being said, it is also kind of awesome in a campy way, so really, you can’t even be mad. Plus the inclusion of some metal acts seems a step in the right direction. Now how about Tyrion releasing an album of spoken word poetry? We’d be all over that.

[image via Nerdcoremovement, story via Flavorwire]

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Uggghhhh is it Spring Break yet bro? I gotta take a break from all this stressful partying at school and go party at the beach to relax.

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This 1988 Jeep Wagoneer wears a backdated grille, headlights, trim and is also equipped with an older AMC 390 V8 and auto trans. New shocks, stabilizers, and meaty 35″ tires have been fitted and rubber coating has been substituted for carpet. A good looking truck, it’s nonetheless not without issues as the tailgate shows some peeling paint, the passenger armrest is missing a screw and rust shows below the front most passenger side trim piece. Find it here on Craigslist in Eastpointe, Michigan for $5,500. Special thanks to BaT reader Paul G. for this submission!

FBI Director James Comey’s Thursday speech on race and law enforcement is getting a lot of attention for what The New York Times called its “unusually candid” assessment of a wide range of issues: racial disparities in arrests and incarceration, the FBI’s history of racial oppression, low employment rates among African-American men and the lack of good data on police shootings. Here is a bit of context on some of the key passages (quotes are taken from the FBI’s official transcript).

Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson and New York City, and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and many citizens—predominantly in communities of color.

After the police shooting of Michael Brown in August, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, drew widespread attention for having an overwhelmingly white police force patrolling a majority-black community. But as The Washington Post showed, Ferguson was hardly unique; most U.S. cities have a higher share of white officers than white residents, in many cases by a wide margin.

Race isn’t the only way in which there is a disconnect. As FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver wrote in August, most officers don’t live in the communities where they serve. Many people have suggested that the two problems are connected and that requiring police to live where they work — as some cities do — could help reduce racial disparities. But it may not be so simple: In an October article for FiveThirtyEight, Batya Ungar-Sargon and Andrew Flowers found that cities with residency requirements actually had police forces that were less representative than cities without such rules. Rather, Ungar-Sargon wrote in a follow-up story, creating a diverse police department requires a combination of aggressive recruiting and a focus on community policing.

A second hard truth: Much research points to the widespread existence of unconscious bias. Many people in our white-majority culture have unconscious racial biases and react differently to a white face than a black face. In fact, we all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

Comey quoted “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” a song from the Broadway hit “Avenue Q.” Social science research generally finds the musical – and Comey – is right. The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University publishes an annual “Implicit Bias Review” that collects research on unconscious racial bias. In one study, research subjects playing a police video game were more likely to accidentally “shoot” unarmed black characters than white ones. In a similar study, pediatricians were more likely to prescribe painkillers to white patients than black ones. But the 2013 report also finds that training can help to counter unconscious bias.

A mental shortcut becomes almost irresistible and maybe even rational by some lights. The two young black men on one side of the street look like so many others the officer has locked up. Two white men on the other side of the street — even in the same clothes — do not. The officer does not make the same association about the two white guys, whether that officer is white or black. And that drives different behavior.

There is ample evidence that police treat black and white residents differently in many communities. In Ferguson, black drivers are more likely to be stopped by police and more likely to be searched when they are stopped, even though they are actually less likely to be caught carrying contraband, according to a report from Arch City Defenders, a local nonprofit that provides defense counsel to low-income defendants. In New York, there were large racial disparities in the city’s controversial “stop and frisk” program, according to a 2013 analysis by the New York Civil Liberties Union. In 2012, young black and Latino men accounted for more than 40 percent of stops despite making up less than 5 percent of the city’s population. Nationally, black drivers are 31 percent more likely to be pulled over than white drivers, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal crime statistics.

Racial disparities in stops and arrests translate into disparities in incarceration as well. According to the Sentencing Project, an advocacy group, black men have a 1-in-3 lifetime chance of imprisonment, compared with 1-in-17 for white men. That has long-term economic and social consequences: Having a felony conviction makes it much harder to find a job, even as high incarceration rates no longer seem to be bringing down crime.

The truth is that what really needs fixing is something only a few, like President Obama, are willing to speak about, perhaps because it is so daunting a task. Through the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, the president is addressing the disproportionate challenges faced by young men of color. For instance, data shows that the percentage of young men not working or not enrolled in school is nearly twice as high for blacks as it is for whites.

The unemployment rate for African-Americans was 10.3 percent in January, more than double that of whites. But that actually understates the racial disparity in employment, particularly for young men. The unemployment rate treats anyone who isn’t actively looking for work as “not in the labor force” and makes no distinction between people who are out of the labor force for good reasons (in school) or bad ones (they’ve given up looking for work). And official labor-force statistics completely ignore anyone who’s in prison or jail.

Account for those factors, and the situation is grimmer. According to data from the American Community Survey, 30 percent of African-American men aged 18 to 24 were neither working nor in school in 2013, compared with 15 percent of white men in the same age range – figures consistent with Comey’s claim. There are similarly large race gaps in income, wealth, and college graduation rates.

Many of the protesters in Ferguson and New York cited economic disparities as a source of their anger. As Bishop Timothy Woods, a local pastor, told me when I visited Ferguson in August, high unemployment and poverty have bred a sense of hopelessness among many young African-Americans. “They kind of assume that how they are now is how they’re always going to be,” Woods said.

Twenty years ago, Bed-Stuy was shorthand for a kind of chaos and disorder in which good people had no freedom to walk, shop, play, or just sit on the front steps and talk. It was too dangerous. But today, no more, thanks to the work of those who chose lives of service and danger to help others.

There’s no question that American cities in general, and New York in particular, have grown much safer in recent decades. In Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed in December, the number of murders fell 84.5 percent between 1990 and 2014; major crimes as a whole were down 77.1 percent over the same period. Nationwide, crime is down by about half since the early 1990s.

In his speech, Comey attributes falling crime rates to police work. But the connection isn’t clear. A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice attributes the decline to a wide range of factors, some related to policing (such as the expanded use of data) but most of them not (such as the aging population and declining alcohol consumption).

How can we address concerns about “use of force,” how can we address concerns about officer-involved shootings if we do not have a reliable grasp on the demographics and circumstances of those incidents? We simply must improve the way we collect and analyze data to see the true nature of what’s happening in all of our communities.

As my colleague Reuben Fischer-Baum wrote in August, data on police killings is incredibly bad. The FBI collects data on “justifiable homicides” by police. But as Comey noted in his speech, reporting is voluntary and sporadic. And that’s far from the only problem with the data. It doesn’t include unjustifiable killings (which may be included elsewhere in federal crime statistics but aren’t identified as police killings), doesn’t include many killings that are still under investigation and doesn’t include killings in federal jurisdictions.

Demographic information, such as the race of the officer and victim, are often missing. To fill the void, various independent groups — most notably the “Killed By Police” Facebook page — have sprung up to try to compile their own figures. Fischer-Baum looked at the Facebook group’s data in August and found it fairly reliable, though certainly not comprehensive. But there’s a clear need for better statistics.

Hayley Munguia contributed reporting.

Edmund McMillen has revealed details about The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's upcoming DLC Afterbirth.

According to his latest blog post, he plans to release it sometime in 2015, "hopefully around the middle" of the year.

The expansion features a ton of new stuff, including 100 items, 10 challenges, a new playable character, an alternate final chapter, and new bosses and enemies. McMillen says that the new content should "easily" extend the gameplay time by up to another 200 hours.

Afterbirth will also contain a new game mode "that will totally change how you play," though McMillen didn't provide further details.

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Netflix could spend as much as $5 billion in 2016 on programming, making it the second biggest spender on content buyer after ESPN, says Tony Wible, analyst at Janney in a new report.

He adds that it would be bigger than the "$4.5 billion of estimated programming collectively expensed at HBO, Amazon, Starz, and Showtime in 2014. The spend builds a competitive advantage and virtuous cycle as it draws in more subscribers that allow it to afford more content. Amazon’s investment exemplifies the competitive hurdles as it is spending roughly half of what Netflix does in the US but yet Netflix is seeing 1,250% greater usage."

Using data from Wible's report, BI Intelligence charted out the current state of Netflix's programming spend as compared to the programming spend of its rivals in 2014. As you can see, Netflix is way out in front.

It's only going to go up from here, making life harder for its rivals.

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Everyone hates a cold, soggy grilled cheese, and the way the cheese congeals into a lukewarm brick and the bread sags under the weight of the oil.

Leave it to a venture-capital-backed grilled-cheese chain to solve this ungodly problem.

Fast-casual eatery The Melt, whose headquarters are in San Francisco, dedicates itself to savory and tech-savvy grilled-cheese sandwiches starting at $5 a pop. It recently relaunched its patented Smart Box, a catering-delivery system designed by former NASA engineers that regulates humidity, heat, and air circulation, ensuring that the sandwiches arrive at your office or home in warm, ooey-gooey condition.

Business Insider's West Coast team recently ordered some of The Melt's new catering menu items to see the Smart Box in action.

Tommy Thompson, head of catering at The Melt, rolled the Smart Box into our office. At chest level, the wheeled contraption was surprisingly light.

Before the Smart Box leaves a Melt location for delivery, it's plugged into a power source so that the hot plate can heat a mass of aluminum inside. En route, the aluminum acts as a "heat battery," storing the heat and continuing to warm up the chamber after it's unplugged.

An exhaust fan at the back of the box regulates the humidity level, and a center fan blows a continuous stream of air on the aluminum, creating a convection flow that evenly distributes heat and humidity.

As the chamber heats up, the humidity levels must be adjusted accordingly, because hotter air holds more moisture. A microcontroller monitors and regulates the box's internal environment using a proprietary algorithm.

The engineers also designed the trays the food comes in. Each sandwich sits in a pocket so that it doesn't get squished in transit. Holes in the bottom let out moisture, preventing the bread from getting soggy.

All this science means the grilled cheese tastes fresh from the frying pan every time.

I ate the Italian Job Melt, which contains fontina cheese melted over truffles and spinach, about a half-hour after the delivery person arrived. The sandwich lost its warmth by then — it had been a half-hour, after all — but the white bread maintained its crispness.

The Buffalo Chicken Melt, on the other hand, retained heat thanks to its parchment-paper packaging. The item is a new addition to The Melt's menu, which now includes burgers, chicken melts, fries, and mac and cheese.

Naturally, we tried everything on the new catering menu, from the Double Bacon BBQ Chicken Melt topped with aged cheddar and grilled onions to the Trio mac and cheese made with cheddar, fontina, and jack.

A public-relations manager for The Melt tells us other restaurant chains are looking to get their hands on the Smart Box too. After tasting its grilled cheeses, we understand why.

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