Teresa--I saw your high-octane limeade recipe, and it's giving me ideas (maybe making it with lemons and using seltzer as a mixer?). What would you recommend using as a straining material?
The New York Review of Books now has a blog, A Different Stripe: http://nyrb.typepad.com/ . It looks pretty damn good.
Tom Reynolds (the author of Blood, Sweat, and Tea) also has a blog, which I'm pretty sure is the source for much of the book's material. The blog is here: http://randomreality.blogware.com
Per Chr J.@142: The story's called 'The Fourth Profession', and the cocktail the protagonist mentions is an Old Fashioned (if someone asks for it during rush hour, he leaves out the sugar).
Bill T @73, JennR @80: What's a GT party?
What does the title of the date palm link mean, by the way?
The problem I had wasn't in making working links, but rather in getting the line breaks in the posted message to work well. I think this happened because the html tags for the links took up a lot of room in the message and affected the appearence of the finished post, and I'm not sure how to deal with this. Any thoughts?
The thermite reaction has actually been (and is still used, I think) for the production of pure uranium metal, though I think they start with UF4 instead of a uranium oxide. They also do it in closed containers, which probably makes it a little less exciting to carry out. It's called the Ames Process, because it was developed at Ames Laboratory in Iowa during WWII. There's some info
here, under 'commercial and industrial uses', and a bit more here on pages 313
and 314.
The thought of that having that reaction go wrong is...unnerving.
(How do you get links to format correctly, btw?)
Ulysses: the story is called 'The R-Strain' (r as in ruminant). It's in the collection _Departures_.
Eric: I think so, since it's millions of years old and is made of inorganic matter, so its link with shellfish would be rather tenuous. (That raises the question of whether the microscopic chalk-forming organisms are treif--are they, or is there some sort of 'infinitesimal creature exemption'?)
Because it was made by animals (teeny little aquatic ones-foraminifera and such), making it an animal product, for all that it's millions of years old. (On those grounds, I'd say yes--the organism that made it died of natural causes and was not exploited--but that's just my guess).
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