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Did you eat yet? If not, you should grab something before watching the most delectable video ever. The past twenty years have given us phenomenal digital photography and photo editing advances. One of the perks is the increased use of time-lapse photography. This technique has brought us sunrise-to-sunset visions of the horizon, the birth of baby birds, the waxing and waning of the moon, and much more. Now, there are time-lapse baking reels that will make you hungry. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ???’? ??????? (@cook_as_you_feel_it) Watching time-lapse baking, you can see how a blob of raw dough reacts to the oven’s heat. Baking time is complete in seconds as the butter melts into a loaf. A simple flat blob with slits in the top grows and expands to become a sturdy loaf of bread resembling a crown. It truly is impressive. This is how food porn earned its name. Image from Instagram. There is nothing like the smell of fresh bread baking. Walking into Grandma’s house on Thanksgiving Day always meant the house would smell wonderful. While not quite as satisfying, you can “almost” smell the loaves of bread while watching time-lapse baking. Whether baking Phyllo dough, crescent rolls, a loaf of Italian bread, or a banana-walnut muffin, the result is oddly satisfying — sort of. My eyes like it, but the video left my belly wanting all the bread! The melty, cheesy breadstick things? I need a recipe for those because they look scrumptious! Watching the dough expand slightly was satisfying, but when that cheese bubbled up in the center of each section? Drool! Image from Instagram. Whatever your lifestyle or tastes in baked goods, this time-lapse baking video has something for every preference. More Time-Lapse Baking Reels The channel where we found this, cook_as_you_feel_it, has hundreds of videos showing pastries, bread, and all the good things. The creator also publishes content on YouTube. You will get lost watching and lose track of time. Perhaps you should wait until after work to check them out. Share this if you know someone else who enjoys time-lapse imagery and baking. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post The Most Satisfying Time-Lapse: Watch Bread & Pastries Bake In Seconds appeared first on InspireMore.

Spoon was formed in 1993 in Austin, Texas. The band was founded by lead vocalist and guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno. Known for their precise, minimalist musical style that blends elements of rock, punk, and experimental music, Spoon has consistently been hailed for their streamlined sound and dynamic live performances. Over the years, they have released multiple albums that have contributed significantly to the indie rock landscape. Albums like Kill the Moonlight and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga have received critical acclaim and have solidified Spoon’s position as a stalwart in the indie music scene. Their ability to The post Complete List Of Spoon Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Over the last decade or so, beards have enjoyed a prominent place in men’s fashion. What was once deemed a temporary resurgence among hipsters in the late 2000s has now become a staple feature of chins across the land. But regardless of whether you think beards are hot or not, those with them have various motivations for maintaining the facial furniture. New research has shown that having a beard may correlate with certain social motivations for status as well as to signify a commitment to family care.Facial hair in humans is a sexually dimorphic feature; that is, it is more strongly pronounced in males than it is in females. But have you ever wondered what purpose this serves us as a species?Given that humans, like other primates, are social creatures that operate in groups of different sizes with multileveled social organizations, there is a good argument that beardedness could help signal status among males as well as attractiveness to females. Having a beard, for instance, may help signify someone’s age, their dominance, and their place in the group. This ornamentation argument would suggest then that men may intentionally manage the amount and shape of the hair on their faces as part of a self-promotional strategy.But this type of upkeep comes with a cost, both financial (the male cosmetic industry continues to grow) and in terms of time and effort. So what are the psychological factors that motivate men to grow and maintain their beards?This was the question that drove researchers from the University of Silesia in Poland and University of Padova in Italy.“Studies conducted so far have shown that people give different characteristics related to fundamental social motives to men with different types of facial hair”, the team write in their study.“However, research on perceptions of men's facial hair provides mixed findings and there is a need for more research on the topic to help clarify this ambiguity.”For instance, people see bearded men as healthier and as better fighters, possibly highlighting motivations concerning disease avoidance and self-protection. They are also regarded as more trustworthy and friendly, which could correspond to affiliative social interests. But bearded men can also be seen as more aggressive and dominant, which may suggest status-seeking motives.In addition, research has shown that people regard men with facial hair as having greater fathering abilities, indicating potential family-care motives.“We hypothesized that men’s striving to realize fundamental social motives might manifest through increased interest in facial hair enhancement”, the team explain. “[T]herefore, we predicted positive correlations between facial hair enhancement motivation and orientation on such fundamental social motives as self-protection, status-seeking, mate-seeking, and kin care related to children.”To explore this, the team surveyed 414 men between 18 and 40 years of age. Those who took part provided information about their facial hair and completed questionnaires that measured four factors: their hair enhancement motivation, fundamental social motives, gender role stress, and intrasexual competition (between other males).Hair enhancement motivation was measured by questions regarding their willingness to use professional beard and facial hair services, to buy facial hair care products, and to spend time trimming and styling their facial hair. To assess participant’s fundamental social motives, they were asked to rate the importance of things like self-protection, disease avoidance, affiliation to a group, affiliation to friends, their status-seeking, mate-seeking motives, and so on.Participant’s gender role stress levels were measured by translating the Masculine Gender Role Stress Scale into Polish. This consists of five subscales that describe situations related to physical inadequacy (with statements like “Not being able to find a sexual partner”), subordination to women (“Being with a woman who is more successful than you), intellectual inferiority (“working with people who seem more ambitious than you”), and performance failure (“Being unable to perform sexually”). Participants were asked to rate how stressful they would find these situations.Finally, intrasexual competition was measured using a translated version of the Intrasexual Competition Scale, which examined participants levels of envy (“I cant stand it when I meet another man who is more attractive than I am”), jealousy (“I look for negative characteristics in men who are successful”), and superiority (“I always want to beat other men/women”).Overall, the team found that men with more facial hair were more likely to value keeping long-term relationships and were more interested in taking care of their family than those with less facial hair.“Previous findings indicated that observers tend to perceive bearded men as having more parenting skills,” the team explain. “Therefore, having more facial hair may be used by men to inform other people that their social motives shift from focusing on mating market to focusing on long-term romantic relationships and family.”“In addition, we found that among clean-shaven men mate-seeking motive was linked with a higher motivation to enhance their facial hair, which further supports this thesis.”Interestingly, men who reported more competitiveness did not seem to display more facial hair. At the same time, gender role stress was not higher among men with more facial hair – growing beards, therefore, is not an attempt to compensate for other areas related to masculinity.“The mixture of affiliative and competitive motivations which correlated with facial hair enhancement suggests that men who are motivated for facial hair enhancement also want to present themselves as valuable and reliable allies and friends,” the authors conclude.The study is not without its limits, however. Future work, the authors argue, could pay more attention to the variety of different types of facial hair out there and how men shape it. The study also relied on self-report measures, which means it is possible respondents declared their conscious beliefs, rather than their actual motivation.Nevertheless, the study is the first to examine facial hair enhancement motivations in men and provides new insights into why beards remain in fashion today.The study is published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Night two of the Republican National Convention was about "safety," talking about crime and immigration. So at the top of their show on taxpayer-funded PBS, anchor Amna Nawaz announced Republican rhetoric can "veer into outright racism" and echo white supremacy. Our tax dollars are abused. Within minutes of their beginning, co-anchor Amna Nawaz warned: "We have seen though, we should note, Republican rhetoric veer into outright racism, echoing some white supremacist notions as well. Do you think that will be avoided here tonight?” David Brooks mocked his old Weekly Standard colleague Tucker Carlson sitting next to Trump. Nawaz didn't feel the need to offer any specifics on what rhetoric is outright racist, and she apparently doesn't think any Republicans are watching PBS and feeling offended. Apparently, using the term "illegals" is racist.  Our latest studies at NewsBusters underline the dimensions of media bias. Geoffrey Dickens demonstrated how rapes and murders by illegal aliens -- including a 12-year-old girl -- are buried by the networks. Rich Noyes did a deep dive into the numbers and found more than 1,600 minutes of ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news on Trump's "legal woes" since the start of 2023, and yet his poll ratings have actually risen.  Then there was Joe Biden yelling at Lester Holt about how the media never cover Trump's lies. Does that sound like someone in his command of his faculties?  Enjoy the podcast below. 

Sen. JD Vance officially accepted the Republican Party's vice presidential nomination on Wednesday.In a rousing keynote address that closed out the third day of the Republican National Convention, Vance recounted the powerful story of his hardscrabble upbringing, connecting it to the "Make America Great Again" agenda and Trump's promise to restore the American dream.'When I walk into that White House to help President Trump, I will be doing it for you, for your family, for your future, and for this great country.'"Tonight is a night of hope — a celebration of what America once was, and with God’s grace, what it will soon be again," Vance said."And it is a reminder of the sacred duty that we have to preserve the American experiment, to choose a new path for our children and grandchildren," he said.Throughout the speech, Vance repeatedly criticized President Joe Biden for being a career politician whose policies have only made America "weaker and poorer." The solution, Vance argued, is Trump's "America First" policies."Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington for longer than I've been alive," Vance said. "For half-a-century, he's been the champion of every major policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer."In four short years, Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by Joe Biden and the rest of the corrupt Washington insiders," he continued. "Just imagine what he's gonna do when we give him four more years!"The promise Vance offered is simple: Trump is going to fight for the working man, and he will put Americans first. With Trump in office, Vance promised there will be an economy that works for all Americans. He promised the border and immigration crises will be solved. He pledged that American manufacturing will be restored. He pledged a solution to the opioid crisis. And he pledged an end to the ruling class cashing checks on the backs of hard-working Americans.Most importantly, Vance promised to serve Americans each and every day he shows up to work."I pledge to every American — no matter your party — I will give everything I have to serve you and to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself, your family, and your country will be possible once again," Vance promised. "And I promise you one more thing — to the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and every corner of our nation — I promise you this: I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.""And every single day for the next four years, when I walk into that White House to help President Trump, I will be doing it for you, for your family, for your future, and for this great country," he pledged. Republicans believe that Vance's story in particular resonates with blue-collar and rural Americans, those forgotten by the coastal elites and ruling class."People feel like Washington’s forgotten about them. That’s JD Vance, his family. Those are people across this country, who, like his family, suffered from drug addiction, suffered poverty," former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) told NBC News. "And I think that’s going to be compelling — to say that this is someone who can relate to the kind of people that Donald Trump is standing up for."If Vance's story connects with voters who feel forgotten, Republicans believe Vance will help them secure victories in the Rust Belt, states critical to winning the White House."He's going to connect so well with these states that are so important in this upcoming election — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan," said Republican congressional candidate Riley Moore (W-Va.). "He represents those kinds of values and a lot of those struggles that he went through."If elected, Vance will become the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history. He will also become the first millennial to hold the office.The theme of the third night of the convention was "Make America Strong Again," promoting the Republican Party's vision for national security and foreign policy while slamming President Joe Biden’s handling of these important issues.In addition to Vance, speakers included Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Donald Trump Jr., Rep. Brian Mast (Fla.), Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.), Rep. Ronny Jackson (Texas), North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Kellyanne Conway, and the family members of the American soldiers who died during Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Trump will address the convention on Thursday when he formally accepts the Republican Party's presidential nomination.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Our Declaration of Independence reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”Any student of history knows that our great country has not always lived up to these ideals. But my uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., saw them for what they were.Despite real progress, woke ideologues are hard at work seeking to restore the resentments of yesteryear, and they have infiltrated our school systems.In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he correctly identified those words as “a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir” and knew that one day, all people, regardless of color, would enjoy their guaranteed unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As a Christian, my uncle also acknowledged the biblical truth that we are of one blood and that we are all made in the image and likeness of God. He knew, too, that our country is not irredeemably stained by racism and that it is redeemed when we unite around our shared values and seek to lift up each other.I have spent my life as an activist, an elected official, a mother, and a grandmother fighting for the realization of that vision, united in love and fellowship with Americans from all backgrounds. I have also led efforts to serve the marginalized and the most vulnerable among us. I am proud to say that so many times and in so many ways, we have succeeded.Despite that real progress, some sadly want to take us backward. Woke ideologues are hard at work seeking to restore the resentments of yesteryear, and they have infiltrated our school systems. What we are now witnessing is a top-down effort to divide parents from children and children from their innocence.Instead of educating our children, America’s schools have become factories for indoctrination. Today, left-wing activists in our institutions are working hard to erase all the progress we’ve made in unifying our country and transcending our differences.In place of my uncle’s dream — in which we are judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character — they would erect a system of racial hierarchies, grounded in resentment, in which innocent black children will be taught that they are defined at birth by their skin color and it will be explained to them that the color of their skin will dictate the breadth of their ambitions. They will be taught that Caucasian children in their classrooms are to blame for all of it simply because they were born white. Many parents are shocked to learn that school systems are spending tens of millions of dollars a year to have teachers tell their students the American dream is a lie.While our students’ minds are being poisoned by anti-American ideology, they are also being deprived of quality education, which is the foundation of success. Implementing Marxist and radical gender curricula has coincided with a rapid decline in U.S. academic achievement. Minority students suffer the most. In Virginia, just outside our nation’s capital, 84% of black students lack proficiency in mathematics, and 85% lack proficiency in reading skills. In the name of “equity,” we are setting these children up for failure. It is difficult to imagine this system producing another Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Secretary Condoleezza Rice, or Justice Clarence Thomas. Where hope no longer exists, it is impossible to dream.It’s time for all Americans to come together, united around our love and our desire to protect our children, to push back this rising tide. We have no illusions about our country. It’s not perfect. But it is at its best when parents are free to raise their children to love God and to love one another.Our children deserve a fair chance to obtain the skills to understand our complex history, to understand the heroic figures who have helped move our country forward, and to dream of a future where they can succeed, regardless of the color of their skin.That’s why I’m calling on everyone who cares about our children to join me on August 31, 2024, on the National Mall for the March for Kids. Setting aside our political or cultural differences, we can unite instead in love for our children and a commitment to nurturing their dreams.It’s time we remind those who would divide us, once again, that we are one nation, under God.

The nation’s power grid doesn’t need additional threats to its stability in the form of Democrats playing politics with funds meant to support critical infrastructure.

On President Biden, the tragic Ali–Holmes fight, and knowing when to quit.