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In 1960 a chocolate works took in raw beans by the sack, roasted them, cracked and winnowed them, ground the nib, ran the result in a conche for…
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In 1960 a hotel kitchen ran as a military hierarchy in a hot basement, on split shifts spanning fourteen hours, six days a week, with a great many…
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In 1960 toys were painted with finishes that contained lead, pressed from tinplate with cut edges left exposed, moulded on machines the operator reached into, and sold with…
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In 1965 your photographs went away in a paper envelope and came back a week or more later, and until they did you had no idea whether any…
Take two golf balls of identical weight and size, one smooth and one dimpled, and hit them identically. The dimpled one will travel roughly twice as far.
That is the…
There is a compartment in the base of most dishwashers that takes coarse salt, and a great many people either ignore it entirely or assume the salt is some kind…