Once you can name the mechanism, the failures become predictable rather than mysterious. Almost every sauce disaster is one of four things going wrong. Here are fifteen.
1. Roux-Thickened Sauces…
The recurring problem is the same everywhere: sleep appears to be necessary, and being asleep is dangerous. Almost every solution below is a compromise between those two facts. Here are…
Animal navigation combines several systems at once, which is why removing one rarely stops an animal entirely. Here are seventeen of the tools involved.
1. Reading the Earth's Magnetic Field…
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There is an object in a museum case in London that does something a piece of fourth-century glass has no business doing.
Look at it with the light coming…
Almost nobody looks at a dark night sky and thinks it requires explanation. It is dark because the sun has set, which seems sufficient.
It is not sufficient, and noticing…
Nearly every effect below comes from one of three things: a curved surface that guides sound, a shape that focuses it, or a surface that refuses to reflect it at…