Children ask why the sea is salty, and the standard answer — rivers carry salt into it and evaporation leaves the salt behind — is correct as far as it…
Scripts are usually classified by what a single character represents: a sound, a syllable, a consonant, or a whole word. Almost every design choice below follows from that decision. Here…
The variable is what is fermenting and which organisms are doing it. Bacteria produce acids and a sour taste; yeasts produce gas and alcohol; most of these involve both in…
Few scientific ideas have travelled as far or as fast as this one. Trees, it is said, are connected underground by fungal threads through which they share nutrients, support their…
Transparency is so familiar that it stops registering as strange. You look through a window and see the street, and it does not seem to require an explanation.
But consider…
Two properties do most of the work: how hot a fat can get before it degrades, and how much flavour it brings. Everything below is a different combination of those…