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Question from Katy: I have a very simple question that I’ve been curious about for most of my life.
Why is milk white instead of some other color?
I know you can change the color of milk by adding stuff to it (chocolate syrup for example), but milk always comes out of the cow white. I know that for a fact because I grew up on a dairy farm. [Read more…]
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Today’s youngsters will never know what it was like to place a phone call before the invention of push button phones and smartphones with touchscreens.
If you’re old enough to remember using a rotary dial telephone you probably remember what it was like to dial each number manually and then have to wait for the dial to return to its original position before you could dial the next number. [Read more…]
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As a youngster I became fascinated with the world of electronics after watching my dad pull the back off our old black & white floor-model TV set and remove a vacuum tube that wasn’t glowing, suspecting that that “dead” tube was the reason the TV had stopped working.
I tagged along as he took that tube to our local TV repair shop to have it tested. Sure enough, it was deader than 4 o’clock in the middle of the Sahara desert. [Read more…]
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A while back I published this post discussing how honey is one food product that will never spoil.
That post prompted lots of feedback with several people asking what it is about honey that makes it last, well…forever.
That’s a great question so I went digging around for the answer, and I found it. [Read more…]
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Question from Melissa: Several of my friends and I were talking about all the snow we’re getting this year in upstate New York when someone said they can remember a time when there was snow on the ground in all 50 states at the same time.
None of us believed him when he said that. Is it true? That just doesn’t seem possible. [Read more…]