Before all other stuff, you should firstly know that oil (and really all ‘dirt’ in general) predominantly consists of a group molecules dubbed ‘hydrophylic’ molecules. It’s a category that’s characterized by its stubborn immiscibility in water (immiscible means not mixable; it will never form a homogeneous, blended mixture). The simplest experiment demonstrating this principle consists [...]
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Having been an avid cook for several years, I’ve lived through the pleasant experience of rivers of tears involuntarily gushing out of my eye sockets on the occasions I peel and cut my own onions or shallots many times. But what’s the phenomenon that so brings us to tears? It seems that it’s just our [...]
What’s the slowest animal?
Jul 29
The slowest animal in the world is the sloth! This fact isn’t too difficult to except, seeing as how these fellows spend an overwhelming majority of their time sleeping (20 hours per day) and feed exclusively on leaves sorely destitute of nutritional value. So sloths aren’t horribly lively; indeed, they move at the catatonic pace [...]
Ah, summer: sunny days, heavy storms. Sniff sniff.. smell that? That delightful rainy odor? “Oh please, rain is simply water, which has absolutely no odor to speak of”, you say. Indeed you’re right! But it’s not the rain that smells rainy, but rather the soil; more precisely, that beloved characteristic smell is attributed to an [...]
It seems that in this mighty battle, it’s the child who wins. A baby’s born with about 300 soft bones; on growing older, some of them harden and others join together. The disparity between the adult and child bone count is due to the fusion of the small bones in the child’s skull, vertabral column, [...]