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…
There is a question that sounds simple and is not: what is the minimum an animal needs in order to be an animal?
Most of the answers people reach for…
Dry heat does two things to spices, nuts and seeds: it releases what was locked inside them and it creates compounds that were never there. Here are fifteen.
1. Moisture…
A balloon is a very thin sheet of stretched rubber holding back a pressure it can barely contain - and almost everything it does follows from that. Here are twelve.…
There is a widespread mental model of a kite that treats the string as a leash, restraining something that would otherwise escape.
That model produces a specific prediction: cut the…