鈥淐razy bug!鈥� That鈥檚 what the Spanish "cucaracha" means. Why crazy? Because when these darkness-loving bugs are surprised by a light being turned on, they scamper away in a wild, crazy, zig-zag...
The word 鈥渂arbecue鈥� derives from the ancient Caribbean tradition of supporting food over a fire with a scaffolding made from green wood which in Spanish was called "barbacoa." The technique itself...
Breakfast of champions. This phrase might make you think of a hearty, greasy bacon platter. Or even a martini if you鈥檝e read the Kurt Vonnegut book with the same title. But it was first coined by...
Looking through a microscope will make something tiny look big. It blows the teeny-weeny out of proportion. As it turns out, you don鈥檛 even need a microscope to do that.
In 1943, the Smith, Kline and French pharmaceutical company added hot pepper extract to Benzedrine, its popular decongestant inhaler. The fiery taste of capsaicin, the compound responsible for the ...
I ventured into homemade bread-making at the start of the pandemic two years ago. My first try failed miserably. The bread turned out to be a shapeless, mushy mess. What ingredient was missing?...
Yes, in a limited way. Honey is a concentrated solution of various sugars in water. The main sugars are fructose and glucose with smaller amounts of sucrose (table sugar) also present. Of course,...
In the third novel of the Harry Potter series, the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry encounters the 鈥淒ementors鈥� for the first time -- creatures that feed on hope and happiness. When he is left with a...
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