Problem: Article: Put 8 green cardamom pods, 8 cloves, and 4 whole black peppercorns into a sealable plastic bag and press the air out. Seal the bag and press a heavy skillet or rolling pin on it to crush the spices. If you have a mortar, put the spices into it and use the pestle to crush the spices until the pods open. Put the lid on the pan so the tea doesn't cool and set a timer. Steep the tea until the liquid becomes a deep, pinkish-tan color. You can stir the tea occasionally to prevent the spices from settling as the tea steeps.
Summary: Use a skillet to crush cardamom, cloves, and peppercorns. Cover the saucepan and steep the tea for 10 minutes.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you have an established colony of salamanders, quarantine your new animals for a few weeks. This can ensure that they are healthy and don’t wipe out any other animals with disease.  Be aware that fungal infections are very common in salamanders and often fatal.  Keep quarantined animals in buckets or, ideally, in separate aquariums. As adorable as salamanders are, it is very important to not handle them unless absolutely necessary, such as transferring the animal to its new habitat. Secretions, salt and heat from human skin or substances on it can harm salamanders.  Wash your hands in hot and soapy water before handing the salamander. Make sure to remove any soap residue from your skin so you don’t harm your salamander.  Transferring or touching your salamander with a small net is the best way to not harm it. Once you’ve checked the health of your salamander, you are ready to move her to her new habitat. Giving her a clean and fun environment may help her live for up to 20 years. Your habitat should include:  a clean aquarium large enough to accommodate all of your salamanders two to three inches of sloped and washed aquarium gravel to line the tank plants that have been washed so they don’t introduce diseases or fungi to the salamanders a sufficient source of sunlight a water filter a lid. All species of salamanders are carnivores but may eat their meals very slowly. Salamanders eat different types of animals depending on their size; larger salamanders will go for larger prey. Give your salamander food on alternate days five days a week. These foods can include:  earthworms or wax worms slugs snails crickets frozen brine Mysis shrimp fish crayfish mice shrews  spiders centipedes. Salamander enclosures are havens for bacteria and fungi. Keep your salamander’s aquarium very clean to maintain her health and prevent the growth of harmful organisms.  Place a water filter in the aquarium to keep the water clean between more thorough disinfection.  Disinfect the aquarium with hot, soapy water every couple of weeks or more often if you notice it is dirty. Transfer the salamanders to holding tanks while you’re cleaning. Make sure to rinse the aquarium thoroughly so any residue doesn’t harm your salamander. If you’ve got multiple salamanders in a habitat, they may reproduce. Keep an eye out for salamander eggs under the water in the tank or on ground surfaces.  Be aware that many salamanders go through egg, large, juvenile, and adult life stages. Some species, however, will hatch directly into small salamanders.  Capture eggs or larva in a small net and release them into the wild if you don’t want to keep the babies.

SUMMARY: Quarantine new animals. Avoid handling salamanders. Transfer your salamander to her new habitat. Feed your salamander. Clean the habitat. Watch for eggs.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Above all, your car should be light. The smaller the mass of your car, the better — every gram or milligram you can shave off of your car's frame is a little further your mousetrap will be able to push your car. Try not to have any extra frame material beyond what's necessary to keep your mousetrap and wheel axles in place. If you see wasted space on your frame, try removing it, or, if this is impossible, make holes in it with a drill to bring its weight down. You'll also want to use the lightest material possible for your frame. Here are just a few suitable ones:  Balsa wood Hard plastic sheets Thin, light metal sheets (aluminum/tin roofing material, etc.) Building toys (K'NEX, Legos, etc.) Ideally, you want your car to be shaped aerodynamically — that is so that it presents the smallest possible surface area in the direction it will travel. Like an arrow, a longboat, an airplane, or a spear, a vehicle that's designed with maximum efficiency in mind will almost always have a long, skinny shape to minimize drag from air resistance. For the purposes of your mousetrap car, this will mean making your frame both narrow (though it will be difficult to get your frame any narrower than the mousetrap itself) and vertically skinny. Remember, to minimize drag, you're trying to give your car the narrowest, smallest profile possible. Try getting down on the ground and looking at your car from the front to spot pieces of the frame that make your car's profile unnecessarily large. Wherever you can, try to use glue in your car's design, rather than nails, pins, or other heavier solutions. For instance, you should only need to use just a few small spots of glue to fix your mousetrap to the frame. Generally, the glue will hold just as well as nails, which can add unnecessary weight. Use super glue not school glue it won't hold as good. Another advantage of glue is that it shouldn't usually affect your car's air resistance. On the other hand, if either end of a nail sticks out of your frame, it can have a minor effect. The only limiting factor when it comes to how light and skinny you can make your mousetrap car's frame is its fragility — if it's too light, it may become so fragile that the action of springing the mousetrap breaks the car apart. The delicate balance between achieving the maximum distance and making your car unstable can be quite tricky to get right, but don't be afraid to experiment. The mousetrap itself is unlikely to ever break, so as long as you have extra frame material, you'll have the freedom to make mistakes. If you're using an extra-fragile material like balsa wood and you're having a hard time getting your frame to hold together, consider adding a small strip of a sturdier material like metal or plastic on the underside of the frame. Doing this increases the structural strength of the car while minimizing the change to its air resistance and weight.
Summary:
Build the lightest frame possible. Make the frame long and narrow. Use glue instead of nails wherever possible. Keep your frame's structural integrity in mind.