Rinse Your Turkey at Your Own Risk
You may want to think twice before rinsing your turkey this Thanksgiving. While many home cooks believe in bathing their bird before popping it in the oven or deep fryer, this common practice carries many potential dangers. Rinsing raw poultry to wash away dangerous microbes like Salmonella may seem like a logical idea, but it...
10 Fun Facts for Savvy Folk
Okay, here’s the deal: you’re about to delve into a new set of wonderful, informative facts that are going to impress you. After you’re doing reading them, you’re going to sit back, exhale deeply, and say to yourself (or whoever you’re with)…”WOAH! I HAD NO IDEA.” You can start the process right now! 1. The...
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Inventor Creates Viable Plastic Alternative from Fish Waste
This year’s International James Dyson award went to the inventor of a plastic alternative that could be used to make sandwich bags and other small carriers. And it’s made out of fish. Inventor Lucy Hughes, age 24, won the UK category, beating out 1,078 other entries. The prize money amounted to 30,000 pounds. Hughes created...
Rare Baby Zebra Born with Spots Instead of Stripes
If you had to define a zebra, one of the first things you’d probably say is that it has stripes. But one baby zebra in Kenya has spots instead. Wildlife photographer Frank Liu captured pictures of the unique baby zebra in Masai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya. The zebra’s lack of stripes is the...
High School Engineering Class Creates a Prosthetic Arm So Middle Schooler Can Play Cello
A high school in Irving, Texas put its engineering class to good use by fulfilling a middle school girl’s dreams of playing in the orchestra. Kayla Arqueta was born without her left hand and part of her forearm. As a student at Austin Middle School, she wanted to join the orchestra, so she auditioned for...
‘You Guys Are Obscenely, Dangerously Wrong’ — Tumblr Users Get a Physics Lesson on Why Older Cars Are NOT Safer
“They don’t make them like they used to!” It’s a refrain we hear often from the older generation around us, and about pretty much everything – cars, washing machines, people – and even though most of us may just roll our eyes and mutter “OK, Boomer,” one Tumblr user was on the same page: https://princealigorna.tumblr.com/post/179536633233/and-this-is-why-we-used-to-make-cars-out-of-steel...
