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Here's the dangerous scenario that you've gotten yourself into:

You’re stranded in a rainforest, and you’ve eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need an antidote excreted by a certain species of frog. Unfortunately, only the female frog produces the antidote. The male and female look identical, but the male frog has a distinctive croak.

As you begin to lose consciousness, you find yourself standing equidistant between two points. At one of them is a single frog. At the other are two frogs. You just heard the sound of the male croaking from the second point. You have time to get to one of those points and begin frantic frog licking. Which direction do you choose?

The answer isn't quite so obvious. Derek Abbott explains in this demonstration of conditional probability.

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Some gamers see the Lawful Good alignment as a roleplaying challenge, struggling through every gaming session as they try in vain to maintain their "holier than thou" morality in a chaotic neutral world.

But playing through a fictional character's morality struggle wears thin fast, and you're left with a paladin turned embittered fighter who melts down their halo for a pouch full of gold pieces.

John Kovalic exposes the hypocrisy of going Lawful Good when you roll up a character in this strip from Dork Tower, the webcomic that always makes me want to play Munchkin for some reason...

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The boy and a police officer crossed the snow-filled street in Belarus. The cop saw that a car driving toward them was going too fast and wouldn't be able to stop in time. So he grabbed the boy by the handle on his backpack and yanked him back, twisted around at the same time so that he, rather than the child, would take the brunt of the impact.

Surprisingly, neither of them was seriously injuried. Dashcam footage shows the cop standing up, opening the passenger side door of the car, and having a few words with the driver.

This is how many people are interpreting the video. But as the Daily Mail points out, other internet commenters say that the cop actually pulled the boy toward danger, not away from it. If he had only left the child alone, he would have missed the car completely.

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Amanda is a food photographer and chef in Sydney, Australia. At her blog, Chew Town, she reveals this incredible dessert that's perfect for an Easter gathering. She made them with hollow Cadbury creme eggs which she filled with tiramisu and savoiardi cookies. Then she topped them with shredded chocolate and what appears to be whole coffee beans.

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Everybody should know how to whip up a batch of chocolate chip cookies, they're the magical munchies that never fail to put the muncher in a good mood, and they're so simple to make even kids can manage it.

But not all chocolate chip cookies are created equal, and the ingredients and ratio of each used in the cookie dough can have a very noticeable effect on the flavor, shape and consistency of the cookies.

Thanks to the efforts of chef Tessa Arias you can see how your chocolate chip cookies will turn out when you modify the basic recipe, so you can skip the experimentation and go straight to snacking!

Read The Ultimate Guide To Chocolate Chip Cookies here

Splash Mountain is one of the most popular Disney Parks ride, especially in the summertime, and aside from the Song Of The South characters it's just a really fun log ride with an incredible drop at the end.

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The drop is so exhilarating that the automatic cameras capture some really funny expressions on riders' faces, except for one lady who seems rather ticked off about the whole affair.

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Her sourpuss expresson while riding Splash Mountain made for a pretty bitter Photoshop Battle on Reddit, and it all happened because her husband Blackthorne519 wouldn't go on the ride with her.

He was overheard remarking that his wife is "a real piece of work", but I don't think this is what he meant:

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But in the end Blackthorne519 discovered that Splash Mountain's drop is just as great as it always was, but his wife is really hard to impress!

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See more from Unamused Woman In Splash Ride Photoshop Battle here

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‘Sea-nomad’ Moken children can see underwater https://t.co/UwQqVPdfGc https://t.co/tZ4C9vVY9P via @BBC_Future pic.twitter.com/LBReVUVAvq

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The Moken people of western Thailand are sometimes called the Sea Nomads because they live almost their entire lives in the shallow waters of the Andaman Sea. From a very young age, they can swim as well as walk and hunt and fish in the water for their food.

They see remarkably well underwater. How? In 1999, Anna Gislén of the University of Lund in Sweden decided to find out.

BBC Future explains the problem. When we put our eyes underwater, our vision necessarily gets blurry:

Light is refracted when it enters the human eye because the outer cornea contains water, which makes it slightly denser than the air outside the eye. An internal lens refracts the light even further.

When the eye is immersed in water, which has about the same density as the cornea, we lose the refractive power of the cornea, which is why the image becomes severely blurred.

But the Moken children are taught to narrow their pupils to compensate for this change:

“Normally when you go underwater, everything is so blurry that the eye doesn’t even try to accommodate, it’s not a normal reflex,” says Gislen. “But the Moken children are able to do both – they can make their pupils smaller and change their lens shape. Seals and dolphins have a similar adaptation.”

It's an impressive adaptation. But it isn't permanent. Gislén found that the Moken lost this ability as they reached adulthood.

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In 1903, Mary Franklin of Birmingham, Alabama was riding on a streetcar during a winter rainstorm. She noticed that the driver could barely see out the windshield because the rainwater adhered to the glass. That gave her an idea. The History channel tells the story:

Anderson began to sketch her wiper device right there on the streetcar. After a number of false starts, she came up with a prototype that worked: a set of wiper arms that were made of wood and rubber and attached to a lever near the steering wheel of the drivers’ side. When the driver pulled the lever, she dragged the spring-loaded arm across the window and back again, clearing away raindrops, snowflakes or other debris. When winter was over, Anderson’s wipers could be removed and stored until the next year. (This feature was presumably designed to appeal to people who lived in places where it did not rain in the summertime.)

Anderson tried to sell her invention, but no one bought it and her patent expired. But other inventors followed with other designs that were put to good use. You can read more about the history of their windshield wipers at Jalopnik.

(The Fall of the Alamo by Robert James Onderdonk)

180 years ago last Thursday, the representatives of the people of Texas voted to declare independence from Mexico. During that time, approximately 200 men stood in the old mission of the Alamo in San Antonio. Arrayed around them, from February 23 on, were the 1,800 soldiers of the dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Lt. Col. William B. Travis commanded the vastly outnumbered Texan forces. On February 24, Travis wrote to his countrymen, asking for immediate reinforcements, but pledging to hold on regardless:

The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country VICTORY OR DEATH.

Because he has a deathwish, the man loaded an app on his phone that makes it sound like an electric shaver. He turned it on, approached his mother from behind, and swiped the phone across the back of her head, as though he had just cut off a huge swath of her hair.

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May he rest in peace. If a man must die while commiting a prank, this is the way to do so.

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It can be hard for the adopted to go through life without knowing who their birth mother is, and many people who were adopted as a kid start searching for their biological parent as an adult.

They may get help from the adoption agency involved in the adoption, or even from their adoptive parents if they know the birth mother's info, but nowadays even TV shows like TLC's Long Lost Family are contributing to the cause.

36-year-old Jenny Thomas from Rochester, New York reached out to Long Lost Family for help finding her birth mother, and what they found out blew Jenny's mind- her biological mother was a coworker she'd known for years.

She worked with her birth mother Nita Valdez at the same Rochester hospital for two years, and the two had spoken on many occasions without knowing they were related:

Thomas was a patient care technician and Valdez was a patient transporter, so they both interacted frequently when patients had to be taken to rehab therapy.

"She's very quiet, funny. I'm comical, so she would always laugh at my jokes, so that was a plus. We never went past a working-professional relationship at all," Thomas told the NY Post.

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You've seen Depp as Trump in the Funny Or Die video Miss C recently posted here on Neatorama, now prepare yourself for the utterly terrifying part they decided not to include with the video- Johnny Depp tearing off the Trump makeup.

(Warning: video is barely NSFW due to language and may induce flashbacks like Pink Floyd's The Wall did back in 1982)

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Vote Johnny Depp for President this November, because at least he will admit that he's pretending to be someone he's not!

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Working as a professional assassin may not be a noble calling, nor is it a career that allows you to plan for the future, but from what I hear the pay is really good and government agencies like the CIA are always hiring new " independent contractors".

So if you're thinking about pursuing a career in wetwork then you should head over to Archive.org and read the declassified CIA manual from 1953 entitled A Study Of Assassination, featuring deadly cool stuff like this:

The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject. A human being may be killed in many ways but sureness is often overlooked by those who may be emotionally unstrung by the seriousness of this act they intend to commit. The specific technique employed will depend upon a large number of variables, but should be constant in one point: Death must be absolutely certain. The attempt on Hitler’s life failed because the conspiracy did not give this matter proper attention...

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It is possible to kill a man with the bare hands, but very few are skillful enough to do it well. Even a highly trained Judo expert will hesitate to risk killing by hand unless he has absolutely no alternative. However, the simplest local tools are often much the most efficient means of assassination. A hammer, axe, wrench, screw driver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or anything hard, heavy and handy will suffice. A length of rope or wire or a belt will do if the assassin is strong and agile. All such improvised weapons have the important advantage of availability and apparent innocence. The obviously lethal machine gun failed to kill Trotsky where an item of sporting goods succeeded.

Don't worry, we won't judge you, although you probably shouldn't go around telling people about your new career because secrecy is a big part of the assassination game. *wink*

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Aliyah Ryan, 2, of Greenville County, South Carolina needed to put on her pants in the morning. This required more coordination than she was capable of. She needed help, so she picked up the phone in her home and called 911.

The dispatcher was confused by the child's need. But, as is standard procedure, he sent a Greenville County Deputy Sheriff out to the location.

Deputy Martha Lohnes drove to Aliyah's home. Her grandfather, who didn't know about the 911 call, answered the door. Then Aliyah walked up to the door with one leg in her pants.

Deputy Lohnes helped her put on her pants the rest of the way. 7 News reports:

“I just ended up sitting down on the stairs helping he put on the rest of her pants and then it was almost like a reward, she just wanted a hug,” she explained.

Needless to say, when mom, Pebbles Ryan, got the call at work, she was a little surprised.

“I came home to “oh, the police helped your daughter put pants on”. I was like “OH! Ok?” Then she wouldn’t let any of the police leave because she wanted hugs,” said Ryan.

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There seems to be nothing that Shelley Gifford can't do with her daughter's hair. Every day, she sends her 6-year old daughter Grace to school with an inventive style. It takes her about 15-20 minutes to weave this kind of astonishing artistry.

And she's entirely self-taught! Gifford has been braiding for only 2 years. She tells the Today show that it's a great creative outlet:

"I try and think of a new style each night for the following day," said Gifford, who teaches mothers how to braid and does special occasion braid work. "I like trying to be creative with my braiding."