Saturday, October 9
A Salt Comparison
Variation in size and shape changes how densely salt crystals pack into a teaspoon. The denser they pack, the more salt a given unit of volume will deliver.
So pay attention to what the recipe calls for—1/4 teaspoon of fine sea salt will have a bigger impact on your dish than the same amount of a larger-grained salt like Diamond Crystal. Using both interchangeably may mean an over- or under-seasoned meal.
When it comes to the question of kosher salt vs. sea salt, at BA, our cooking salt of choice is Diamond Crystal kosher salt: Its light and hollow flakes are easy to grip and crush, readily adhere to protein, and dissolve quickly. It’s also less salty by volume, meaning that it’s harder to oversalt.
When it comes to the question of kosher salt vs. sea salt, at BA, our cooking salt of choice is Diamond Crystal kosher salt: Its light and hollow flakes are easy to grip and crush, readily adhere to protein, and dissolve quickly. It’s also less salty by volume, meaning that it’s harder to oversalt.
But there’s also a strong contingent of chefs and recipe developers who prefer fine sea salt. Ben Mims of the Los Angeles Times turns to fine sea salt to dissolve seamlessly into baked goods; cookbook author Dorie Greenspan prefers it to regular kosher salt for its cleaner taste; and Joe Yonan of The Washington Post likes its reliability: In general, brands don’t differ that drastically.
So if you want fine sea salt to be your cooking salt of choice, go for it—but remember, when recipes call for Diamond Crystal kosher, you’ll have to adjust.
A rough conversion: About 1¼ teaspoon of coarse kosher salt will be about 1 teaspoon of fine sea salt, but be very wary—coarseness varies by brand of salt, and the only way to be absolutely sure is to take out that kitchen scale and make sure the two are equal in weight, especially in more finicky baking projects that require precision. READ MORE...
A rough conversion: About 1¼ teaspoon of coarse kosher salt will be about 1 teaspoon of fine sea salt, but be very wary—coarseness varies by brand of salt, and the only way to be absolutely sure is to take out that kitchen scale and make sure the two are equal in weight, especially in more finicky baking projects that require precision. READ MORE...
A Strange Moon
Iapetus, the second moon ever discovered around Saturn back in 1671, has three bizarre properties that science still struggles to explain. It orbits out of Saturn's plane and has a two-toned appearance, an equatorial bulge, and a giant ridge. How did it form and develop these strange properties? 350 years later, we still don't know.
After having no superior tools to our naked eyes to explore the universe, the 17th century ushered in a revolution with the adoption of the telescope. With larger apertures and the power to gather more light at once, objects beyond the limits of human visibility — both in terms of resolution and faintness — suddenly transformed from being unobservable to being observable at will. Almost immediately, new objects and features became apparent, including the four major moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, the rings of Saturn with many features inside, and much more.
Then in 1671, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini was observing Saturn, already known to possess a giant moon, Titan, and discovered another moon: Iapetus. While Cassini would go on to make many other discoveries about Saturn, including numerous other moons, Iapetus was one of the strangest things anyone had ever seen in the sky. Cassini discovered Iapetus on the western side of Saturn, but when he looked for it later in its orbit, on Saturn’s eastern side, it wasn’t there. The moon remained missing for decades until, with a significantly upgraded telescope, Cassini finally saw it, a full two magnitudes fainter than it appears on Saturn’s western side, in 1705. As remarkable as that was, it was just the start toward understanding the mystery of Iapetus: our solar system’s strangest moon.
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| Compared to Earth, or even Earth’s moon, Saturn’s moon Iapetus appears small and insignificant. However, it remains one of only a small number of solar system bodies over 1,000 kilometers in diameter, Saturn’s 3rd largest moon, and perhaps the least understood moon in our solar system. (Credit: Tom.Reding and Ppong.it, Wikimedia Commons) |
Compared to Earth, or even Earth’s moon, Saturn’s moon Iapetus appears small and insignificant. However, it remains one of only a small number of solar system bodies over 1,000 kilometers in diameter, Saturn’s 3rd largest moon, and perhaps the least understood moon in our solar system. (Credit: Tom.Reding and Ppong.it, Wikimedia Commons)
Today, we have the luxury of hundreds of years of scientific advances at our disposal, and technologies about which Cassini could have only dreamed. Modern telescope have hundreds of times the light-gathering power of the greatest telescopes of his day, with views that take us into wavelengths that the human eye cannot observe, with numerous observatories located in space, and with a few of them — like the Voyager 1 spacecraft or NASA’s Cassini mission — actually traveling to and imaging these distant worlds in situ. TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS STRANGE MOON, CLICK HERE...
Today, we have the luxury of hundreds of years of scientific advances at our disposal, and technologies about which Cassini could have only dreamed. Modern telescope have hundreds of times the light-gathering power of the greatest telescopes of his day, with views that take us into wavelengths that the human eye cannot observe, with numerous observatories located in space, and with a few of them — like the Voyager 1 spacecraft or NASA’s Cassini mission — actually traveling to and imaging these distant worlds in situ. TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS STRANGE MOON, CLICK HERE...
Friday, October 8
Disrupting Battery History
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| The Addionics Tream |
And here is where Biton saw a huge opportunity “as trillions of dollars will continue to be invested in creating better batteries.”
Addionics aims to capitalize on this opportunity by introducing a relatively small change into how batteries are designed.
Unlike other companies that focus on improving battery chemistry, Addionics is focused on the physics of a specific part of the battery, the electric current collector.
The current collector serves as the substrate of a battery’s electrodes. These small metal sheets, not dissimilar to aluminum foil, are layered around the “active material” – lithium ion, for example.
Think of an electric battery like a sandwich, Biton suggests. “The bread is the electricity collector, and the cheese is the active material.”
Most electric car battery “sandwiches” have the “cheese” only on the top. Addionics layers the “cheese” throughout, along with layers of porous and spongy “bread.”
“Using nanotechnology, we can find space that’s not well utilized and make it more efficient,” Biton says. READ MORE...
Gulfstream Glitter
With holiday shopping season approaching, we thought we’d bring this to your attention. Gulfstream has unveiled two new jets, the G400 and G800, which sit on opposite ends of the lineup of their latest tech jets, the G500 and G600, which Gulfstream has been delivering for a couple of years now.
The G800 will attract the most attention, as it is the most profitable airplane company in the world’s emerging flagship, taking over the top dog status from the G700.
Gulfstream launched the G700 in Las Vegas in 2019, boasting remarkable specs, including a 7500-nm range and a maximum speed of Mach .925, but not both at the same time.
The G800 will stretch the limits of the possible even more with an 8,000-mile range at Mach .85 and a 7,000-nm range at Mach .90.
The G800 will stretch the limits of the possible even more with an 8,000-mile range at Mach .85 and a 7,000-nm range at Mach .90.
With seating for up to 19, the wide-body G800 will link previously unlinkable city pairs while offering the same groundbreaking Honeywell Symmetry avionics system as on the G700—Gulfstream expects to make first G700 deliveries in 2022, with the entry of the G800 slated for 2025. Cost of the G800 is rumored to be $71.5 million.
World Expo in Dubai
The World Expo is opening in Dubai, and its organisers hope it will attract millions of overseas visitors to the emirate.
World Expos allow countries showcase their latest technology, and they've been drawing in crowds for the past 170 years dating back to Queen Victoria's reign.
But visitor numbers for this year's Expo may be lower than usual due to Covid as many countries are still putting restrictions on international travel.
On 27 November 2013, fireworks painted the sky from the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, as thousands across the UAE celebrated. A national holiday was even declared for all educational institutions across the country.
On 27 November 2013, fireworks painted the sky from the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, as thousands across the UAE celebrated. A national holiday was even declared for all educational institutions across the country.
We were overjoyed that we won the bid and would soon be ‘Connecting Minds and Creating the Future’ with the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region.
Thursday, October 7
Chemo Day
The Opdivo infusions once started last 30 minutes whereas the IVIG infusions once started last almost 2 and 1/2 hours... which still seems like a short period of time to me since my previous chemo infusions of Rituxan lasted 5-6 hours.
I am also taking 2 - 140mg tablets of Imbruvica to counteract and prevent my non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from growing as well... those pills are usually taken in the mornings.
Chemo Day and IVIG Day, are both early morning days as I am up at 5:30 am and leave the house a little after 6:00 am, arriviug at UT Medical about 7:15 am depending upon traffic which can never be predicted, since there seems to be traffic accidents every day of the week, even though their times vary.
Instead of putting an IV into my arm, I have had a port inserted in my upper chest on the right side just below the colar bone... it is a dual port, so each time it is used, the nurses try to use the other access point to make sure that both openings are constasting flushed and kept from clogging.
I call this chemo day but in reality it is immunotherapy day which has virtually no adverse side effects for me these days but at one point, I was experiencing fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, and general malaise.
I am in my 14th year so it would appear that something is working.
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