There is a question about weathervanes that catches almost everybody out, and it concerns which way the pointer faces.
The natural assumption is that the arrow shows where the wind…
Coarse material behaves completely differently from sand under waves - it drains, it rolls, it stacks and it sorts - and almost everything distinctive about a shingle beach follows from…
A stair is a compromise between space and effort, and the dimensions that make one comfortable are older than any regulation that now enforces them. Here are fifteen.
1. Every…
A base-and-radiate trip has a different rhythm from a moving one, and it rewards a different set of decisions. Here are ten.
1. The Base Matters More Than the Room…
Cocoa butter can set in several different ways, and only one of them produces chocolate that behaves the way people expect. Almost everything below follows from that. Here are fifteen.…
The air around you is holding water you cannot see, and the amount it can hold depends almost entirely on temperature. Cool it enough and the water has to go…