Yeah, I’m gonna add another decade onto that, sorry.
yeah I don’t grate. It scares me.
The answer, young grasshopper, is to purchase a food processor.
I can also recommend kevlar gloves (they’re great for mandoline slicers, too! Take it from someone with 9.5 fingerprints)
I think that the ability to grate a food, without adding a bit of yourself into the final product, is the function of a U-shaped curve. Perhaps not so existent when you’re younger and you haven’t accumulated the wisdom of scarred knuckles. And perhaps not so much when you’re wisdom is failed by your dimming eyesight and poor ability to manage more than one thought at a time. I’ll leave you to guess on which end I am currently sliding down rapidly.
Why the noise? Scientists can only speculate. It could be, says Baumann-Pickering, that the creatures “are truly, actively communicating — potentially to initiate migration.” In other words, maybe the buzz is just a signal that “it’s time to go,” she says.
But there’s another more mundane possibility.
“It’s known that some fish are considered to be farting,” says Baumann-Pickering, “that they emit gas as they change depths in the water column.” The gas comes from a swim bladder inside the fish that controls its buoyancy.
In either case, billions of fish may be jetting up and down in the ocean every day, and making it hum. If so, it would likely be the largest migration of vertebrate animals on the planet, Baumann-Pickering says. She calculates that the weight of the fish amounts to some 10 billion tons.
“We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful.”
“For all those fans of “Supernatural” who caught last night’s episode, “The Vessel”, here’s an external photo of the amazing submarine replica built in Burnaby for the shoot.
This is director John Badham, with two of the torpedo tubes featured in the production. Hats off to the crew who put the amazing set together.
There were times when I had to shake my head to remind myself I’m not back aboard USS RASHER. This is a mockup, and the flames in the corner of the control room are real flames, but will be turned off once the cameras have the shot.“
Hearseeno 