‘A Nice Cup of Tea’ by George Orwell
From the Evening Standard, 12 January 1946: If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, […]
Scientist Drinks Billion-Year-Old Water Just to See What It’s Like
By Ashley Feinberg from Gizmodo.com: This map, from the United States Geological Survey, shows the age of bedrock in different regions of North America. Scientists found ancient water in bedrock north of Lake Superior. This region, colored red, was formed more than 2.5 billion years ago. So remember about a month ago when scientists in […]