Just over a month ago I decided to start making yoghurt. Everyone does something, bread, pasta etc, but I eat a lot of yoghurt and decided that I could, with practice, come to a standard as good as the top-of-the-range ones while having complete control of what goes into them. I started out by following [...]
I love technology. I don’t necessarily mean gadgets and (specifically) not all the rubbish that some corporations produce in an attempt to make more money, but technology in its greater sense and as a concept. The best part of all is that it provides a massive ground for education and research into every subject including [...]
I was bought a book called “An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (or 200 years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge)” by John O’Farrell. It’s some 587 pages long and worried me greatly. But, one night I gave it a go and found that it was one of the hardest books to put down. It [...]
While idly browsing on YouTube, I found this great video by a professor at Nottingham University. He discusses the recent creation of Element 114, which has since been called Ununquadium, by accelerating and fusing Calcium with Plutonium. The existence of the atom has been indirectly observed 80 times now through inspecting the evidence of its [...]
A few weekends ago I made confit de canard following the recipe below. It was very good, although I had the heat a little high and so the meat was a bit tougher than I’d have liked it. Ingredients 6 duck legs 25g rock salt 20 black peppercorns crushed 5 sprigs of thyme 3 garlic [...]
