Friday, August 07, 2020

Miss Cellania's Links

The Science Against Making Tea in a Microwave. I use the barbaric American method, because I need some hot caffeine in a hurry, and I already have a microwave that needs to justify its continued existence.

A chilling tale from the Crypt of Murder: "Death by Donald!" The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.

Number Fever: The Pepsi Contest That Became a Deadly Fiasco. (via Damn Interesting)

See 30 species of odd-looking bats with names like the hammer-headed bat, the yellow-winged bat, the little white-shouldered bat, the big-eared woolly bat, the desert long-eared bat, the eastern tube-nosed bat, and the wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat.

The Truth Behind A Viral Picture Of A Reopening School Is Worse Than It Looked. The students who posted the pictures have been suspended.

How Many Habitable Planets Can One Star Have?

Nine Eyewitness Accounts of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Warning: these accounts are disturbing and sometimes graphic.

How the Electoral College made America's pandemic response worse.

The Nazi Interrogator Who Killed Them With Kindness. 

A blast from the past (2016): 12 Uses for Pickle Juice.

5 comments:

  1. At the number fever link you have to scroll down to the bottom of the August 5th section.

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  2. I don't always drink pickle juice, but when I
    do, I'm probably hung over. I've also never
    understood why pregnant women crave pickles. It's
    a pickle that got them pregnant in the first place. . .

    Just gherkin your chain Miss C. Happy Friday!

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  3. Bruce, I can't find an August 5th section in that article. What would I find there?

    Happy Friday, gwdMaine!

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  4. Would it be possible to hold off on the panic-inspiring posts about school openings now? People are under a lot of stress. There are other things to post about. Thank you.

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  5. Regarding making tea in a microwave... So what's wrong with stirring the heated water to de-stratify the temperature? In fact, you could stir it vigorously before putting the container into the microwave, leaving the contents to spin and allowing mixing to occur during heating.

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