Today, two odes to British Tea. First, the British Standards Organization’s official six-page standard for how to brew a cup of tea. It was honored with the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature. Second, Professor Elemental’s music video “Cup of Brown Joy”:
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Confessions of a recovering engineer
Charles Mahron’s “Confessions of a recovering engineer“, in Grist magazine, is itself a well-engineered essay. (Thanks to investigator Ethel Saylor for bringing this to our attention.)
A Solid Approach to Old Dung
Coprolites, which are not manufactured to meet to meet any regulated industry standard, can be examined in a standard way: “A Standardized Method for the Description and the Study of Coprolites,” F. Jouy-Avantin, A. Debenath, A.-M. Moigne, and H. Mone, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 30, no 3, March 2003, pp. 367-72. (Thanks to Tom […]