PEANUTS FOR YOUR BEER?
IN ARGENTINA, A GLASS OF BEER is served with a small handful of roasted shelled peanuts. A ploy to raise thirst for another beer? A counter to the hops flavor? … Continue reading
AVOCADO CARNITAS JALAPẼNO PIZZA
VOICE OF AMERICA REPORTS “THESE ARE Young America’s Favorite New Ethnic Foods,” and they ain’t pizza anymore. Dora Mekouar writes in VOA, June 14, 2023, “Millennials, people between the ages … Continue reading
ANDERS CELSIUS’S CLEVER IDEA
THE INTERESTING FACTS WEBSITE has the added fun of encouraging further investigation. For instance, a recent topic was “The Celsius Scale was Originally Backward.” Interesting Facts notes, “Instead of 0 … Continue reading
THE RICHNESS OF PRESTON STURGES PART 2
YESTERDAY, FILM DIRECTOR PRESTON STURGES lolled with the likes of folks named Hutton, Post, and Woolworth. It apparently rubbed off, and his movies blended this rich environment with a screwball … Continue reading
THE RICHNESS OF PRESTON STURGES PART 1
CONNECT THE DOTS: THIRTIES FILM DIRECTOR Preston Sturges and Mar-a-Loco, er… Lago. Indeed, as cited by David Trotter’s “An Elite Worth Joining,” London Review of Books, April 13, 2023, the … Continue reading
BROCCOLI TIDBITS—INCLUDING A MCDONALD SNAFU, A MISRECALLED CARTOON, AND A RECIPE COMPLETE WITH FULL DISCLOSURES
THESE PARTICULAR TIDBITS SURELY DON’T suffer from lack of variety. They arose from two seemingly unrelated events: reading about a rare McDonald failure and wondering how to finish off the … Continue reading
HARVESTING ELECTRICITY FROM THE AIR—BEN FRANKLIN, NICOLA TESLA, THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST PART 2
YESTERDAY IN “HARVESTING ETC. ETC, PART 1”, Franklin fooled with a kite, Telsa fooled with giant arcs. Both preceded recent research about deriving renewable electric power from the air itself. … Continue reading
HARVESTING ELECTRICITY FROM THE AIR—BEN FRANKLIN, NICOLA TESLA, THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST PART 1
RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Massachusetts, Amherst, and, independently, at the European Commission’s CATCHER project have been transforming atmospheric humidity into renewable power. This is in line with Benjamin Franklin’s … Continue reading
SCIENTIFIC METAPHORS
ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE PROFIT from explanatory metaphors. For instance, hydrogen’s promiscuity explains why its universal abundance doesn’t promote its being the slam-dunk of energy production. There’s lots of hydrogen, but … Continue reading
PEGASO TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LEARNED FROM R&T, November 1954, that Wilfredo Ricart’s Pegaso cars seemed well-nigh unbreakable. Today several other sources contribute to this Spanish exotic’s history. More Pegaso Lore. Wikipedia gives … Continue reading
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