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Mar 21, 2014
Mar 14, 2014
Happy Friday
Don't make 'good morning' just a wish for someone, make it a
positive statement.
Try this - Good morning, have a Happy Friday!
Try this - Good morning, have a Happy Friday!
Pi Approximation Day
Pi Day was
invented by physicist Larry Shaw and the first Pi Day celebration
was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988. In 2009 the
US Congress officially recognized March 14 as Pi Day in the United
States. Traditional Pi Day activities include eating pizza,
fruit pies, pancakes, and other circular food.
Foiling Garden Pests
Early spring planting tip - cut up
small strips of used aluminum foil and mix in with garden soil to
keep away aphids and other garden pests.
Salt and Grilling
Spring means time to clean the
barbecue and get ready to grill. Salting meat after it is cooked
helps the flavor, but salt draws moisture out of the surface of
the meat. If salt is left on the surface of meat for a significant
period of time, it will dehydrate the meat. Usually, this is not a
good idea before cooking meat.
However, if the meat is going to be cooked quickly (like a grilled steak) and if the salt is added just before cooking, then the salt will neither help nor hurt the meat. This is because it is too short a period of time for the salt to dehydrate the surface of the meat.
However, if the meat is going to be cooked quickly (like a grilled steak) and if the salt is added just before cooking, then the salt will neither help nor hurt the meat. This is because it is too short a period of time for the salt to dehydrate the surface of the meat.
Ultra Thin Circuits
Ultra thin film-like organic
transistor integrated circuits are being developed by a research
group led by Professor Takao Someya and Associate Professor
Tsuyoshi Sekitani of the University of Tokyo, who run an
Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology program sponsored by
the Japan Science and Technology Agency, in collaboration with
Siegfried Bauer's group at the Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria.
The circuits are extremely lightweight, flexible, durable and thin, and conform to any surface. They are just 2 microns thick, just 1/5 that of kitchen wrap, and weighing only 3g/m^2, are 30 times lighter than office paper. They also feature a bend radius of 5 microns, meaning they can be scrunched up into a ball, without breaking. Due to these properties the researchers have dubbed them "imperceptible electronics", which can be placed on any surface and even worn without restricting the users movement.
The integrated circuits are manufactured on rolls of one micron thick plastic film, making them easily scalable and cheap to produce. And if the circuit is placed on a rubber surface it becomes stretchable, able to withstand up to 233% tensile strain, while retaining full functionality.
"This is a very convenient way of making electronics stretchable because you can fabricate high performance devices in a flat state and then just transfer them over to a stretchable substrate and create something that is very compliant and stretchable just by a simple pick and place process."
In the future, the group would like to expand the capabilities of these circuits and open a wide range of new applications, from health monitoring systems, wearable medical instruments, and even robotic skins.
The circuits are extremely lightweight, flexible, durable and thin, and conform to any surface. They are just 2 microns thick, just 1/5 that of kitchen wrap, and weighing only 3g/m^2, are 30 times lighter than office paper. They also feature a bend radius of 5 microns, meaning they can be scrunched up into a ball, without breaking. Due to these properties the researchers have dubbed them "imperceptible electronics", which can be placed on any surface and even worn without restricting the users movement.
The integrated circuits are manufactured on rolls of one micron thick plastic film, making them easily scalable and cheap to produce. And if the circuit is placed on a rubber surface it becomes stretchable, able to withstand up to 233% tensile strain, while retaining full functionality.
"This is a very convenient way of making electronics stretchable because you can fabricate high performance devices in a flat state and then just transfer them over to a stretchable substrate and create something that is very compliant and stretchable just by a simple pick and place process."
In the future, the group would like to expand the capabilities of these circuits and open a wide range of new applications, from health monitoring systems, wearable medical instruments, and even robotic skins.
Two Interesting Microwave Facts
Microwaves convert
Vitamin B12 to an inactive form, which means about 30-40% of the
Vitamin B12 in microwaved foods is not usable by mammals. On the
other hand, spinach loses about 77% of its folate when cooked in a
normal stove, but retains nearly all of it when cooked in a
microwave. In the same way, steamed vegetables, as a rule, tend to
retain more of their nutrients in a microwave than when cooked in
a traditional oven.
Eleven More Uses for Butter
Butter has many more uses
than just for sandwiches and sauteing.
- If you have anything sticky on your hands, like glue, tar, or paint, rub with butter, then wash with soap and water.
- Gum in hair comes off easier if rubbed with butter.
- Tree sap on a car comes off easier if rubbed with butter before washing.
- Cutting things like marshmallows, pies, toffee, dates is easier if you slice the knife through butter first so it does not stick.
- Butter works like oil to shine shoes, baseball gloves, etc. Just put some on a cotton swab and rub in.
- Large pills can go down a bit easier if rubbed with a bit of butter before swallowing.
- Butter works like expensive skin oils to soften cuticles and nails and to soften dry skin. it can also be used in a pinch to replace shaving lotion.
- Rubbing butter on hard cheese helps keep down mold if you rub it on the cut edge before wrapping.
- Dingy dusty holiday candles can be brought back to life by rubbing with butter. It cleans and brings back the shine.
- Difficult to remove rings slide off easy if you apply butter first.
- After handling and cleaning fish, rub some butter on your hands before washing with soap and water to remove the smell. (Butter is not good to rub on burns, use an ice cube instead.)
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