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Food & nutrition

Killing Germs Without Boiling: Pasteurization

Pasteurization heats food below boiling to cut pathogens and spoilage microbes while keeping flavor and nutrition. This piece covers Pasteur’s wine experiments in 1864, Soxhlet’s m

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Food & nutrition

How to Measure Spiciness in Numbers: The Scoville Scale

The Scoville Scale expresses how hot a chili pepper is as a number, the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU). This article explains why spiciness is actually pain, how the scale is measured by

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General knowledge

Safe Driving Guide: Accident Prevention and Essential Checks

Safe driving is an essential virtue for every driver and an important responsibility for protecting one's own safety and that of others. With traffic accidents increasing recently,

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Design

Widen, Then Narrow, Twice Over: The Double Diamond

The Double Diamond is a model that draws the design process as two diamonds side by side. This article covers what the two diamonds mean, the Discover and Define phases, the Develo

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Earth science

When the Ground Flows Like Water: Soil Liquefaction

Why does solid ground turn soft and flow like water during an earthquake? This article explains soil liquefaction, in which water-saturated sandy ground behaves like a liquid, cove