Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: science

74 bookmarks tagged “science

All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go — Matter — Medium

medium.com/matter/all-dressed-up-for-mars-and-nowhere-to-go-7e76df527ca0
Valentin Vitaljevich Lebedev was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days,[1] was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/
Besides the need for new technologies, there is a continuing great need for new basic knowledge in the sciences if we wish to improve the conditions of human life on Earth. We need more knowledge in physics and chemistry, in biology and physiology, and very particularly in medicine to cope with all these problems which threaten man’s life: hunger, disease, contamination of food and water, pollution of the environment.

The Food Lab: The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs | Serious Eats

seriouseats.com/2014/05/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs.html
Pressure-cook your eggs for six minutes to get perfectly hard-cooked yolks, and the outer layers of your whites end up tough. At least, tougher than equivalently steamed or simmered eggs.