If you try to translate ‘ribbit’ (the sound a frog makes in English), Google Translate will usually just leave it untranslated. The real Greek onomatopoeia for a frog is among the best of any animal: βρεκεκέξ κουάξ κουάξ (vrekekéx kouáx kouáx). It makes more sense if you think of a marsh frog’s sound.

Tesla confirmed today that it has increased the prices of all Model 3 variants by $400 and it has also made changes to its ‘off-the-menu’ Model 3 variants. The base version of the Model 3 at $35,000 was also put off-the-menu and can only be ordered by calling Tesla or going at the store. Tesla also says that they are making the base Autopilot package standard on the Long Range Rear-Wheel Drive Model 3, which is also available off-the-menu:

Recently, Tesla has admitted that it needed to make some drastic moves to lower the price of the Model 3, like closing stores and bringing all sales online.

The researchers multiplied these concentrations by the rivers’ water discharge to calculate the total weight of plastic flowing into the sea. The results, published last November in Environmental Science & Technology, show that rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the seas every year, depending on the data used in the models. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.

“My son is a hero, a superhero,” shouts a jubilant Zahra, nestling into Amar’s chest and kissing him. Amar pulls out his phone and shows his mother photographs of the fish he caught in Devon. The next day Amar says he wants to visit his family’s house in Karbala – about two hours south of Baghdad.

The biggest retailer in the world will now offer shoppers the option to have their online orders delivered the next day, following Amazon, which on April 25 announced plans to spend $800 million for one-day delivery for all Amazon Prime members. Amazon, for comparison, has no minimum purchase threshold for free, next-day delivery but requires customers to have a Prime membership, which costs $119 annually. When Amazon made its one-day shipping the new standard for all Prime customers last month it sent shares of Walmart and Target tumbling, as investors worried bricks-and-mortar retailers would now have to spend more money to match the e-commerce giant’s steps.

Twenty leading drug companies—including Teva Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Novartis, and Mylan—were in cahoots for years to fix and dramatically inflate the prices of more than 100 generic drugs, in some cases to raising prices “well over 1,000 percent,” according to a lawsuit filed late last week by 44 states. In the peak timeframe noted in the lawsuit, Teva raised its prices on about 387 formulations of 112 generic drugs. The lawsuit is the second stemming from the multi-state investigation alleging that the 20 companies and 15 individual drug company executives violated federal and state antitrust laws.

The researchers multiplied these concentrations by the rivers’ water discharge to calculate the total weight of plastic flowing into the sea. The results, published last November in Environmental Science & Technology, show that rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the seas every year, depending on the data used in the models. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.

The little demand left is shared among a seemingly never ending hord of aspiring freelance developers, many of whom are willing to work at prices far below that of what their skills had once demanded. With a market such as this what place, if any, is there for new developers who wish to break into freelancing? Is there any hope at all for these developers?

For over a decade, books about the “New York Intellectuals” had been appearing at a steady clip, and they usually devoted considerable attention to him: his early years in the socialist movement and at the City College of New York; his career as a prolific intellectual journalist; his development into one of the great modern sociologists. Dorman also beautifully traced their subsequent careers, the way they dealt with McCarthyism and the New Left, and their political parting of ways: Howe the democratic socialist (and Dissent founder) on one side, Kristol the unabashed neoconservative and Reaganite on the other; Glazer and my father somewhere in between, with my father eventually tending more toward the left. The sport of the New York Jewish intellectuals was competitive talking, and they all needed their stories, their performances, to be contenders.

If your phone was more like your toothbrush, your life would be a lot better. To do this, a great tool must have three properties:

Your phone does none of these and that’s why it’s a lousy tool at best. That’s 17.5 hours a week and, unless you work part-time at a call center, that’s way too much.