"How To Dunk A Doughnut"

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__ The Giant Sequoia: the capillary channels containing the menisci can be no more than .2 micrometers wide. ... If the column of liquid breaks, the occurrence is signified by a 'click' that can be heard with a stethoscope. Eventually, all columns should break and the tree should die. Yet massive trees continue to grow.

__ Washburn equation... isn't the only equation that works when it's not supposed to. The equation that describes how a thin stream of water dripping from a tap breaks up into droplets, has been applied to describe the breakup of an atomic nucleus during radioactive disintegration.

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__ Just add 50% to th cooking time if you double the weight.
__ Meat is almost as efficient an insulator as the rubber in a wetsuit.
__ Stepped blocks help a claw hammer best.
__ The cheapest supermarket is likely to be the one with the highest proportion of items marked in whole dollars, because the big price jumps for these items haven't happened yet.

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