The common feature is that nobody is doing anything for most of the duration. The work is at the beginning and the end, and in between the food is changing…
The counterintuitive fact underlying all of this is that mixing two soft metals frequently produces something substantially harder than either, and the reason is geometric. Here are twelve.
1. Why…
The pattern across all of these is the same trade: more character, less predictability. What follows is what each category is actually like rather than how it photographs. Here are…
Almost every quirk of cooking with pulses follows from one fact: they are dried on purpose, so everything you do is a negotiation about putting water back. Here are fifteen.…
Almost everybody has experienced this, and almost nobody has considered how strange it is.
Sitting still in a vehicle, entirely uninjured, having eaten nothing unusual, a person becomes progressively unwell…
Before printing, every copy of every text was made by hand and therefore differed from every other copy. Almost everything below follows from that changing. Here are sixteen.
1. Paper…