The organising fact is that rice is not one ingredient. Varieties differ in starch composition in ways that make them truly unsuitable for each other dishes, and almost every rice…
The single idea that makes all of this make sense is that cold is not a thing being added but heat being taken away and put somewhere else. Everything below…
There is a category of human variation that is essentially invisible, because it concerns something nobody can observe in anybody else and nobody has reason to compare.
Ask two people…
Most descriptions of the ocean concern its surface, which is understandable, since that is the part anybody sees.
The surface is a thin film on top of something much larger.…
There is an assumption that things used routinely are understood, and it does not hold in general.
A great many effective interventions were established empirically — somebody noticed that something…