Mathematically Optimal Potatoes


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Mathematician Victoria Hart wishes you an operative and efficient Thanksgiving. To aid this endeavor, she offers this tutorial on how to maximize the gravy carrying capacity of a pile of mashed potatoes.

-via The Mary Sue


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It's a prototype for recycling garbage bags. Flip over gadget so prongs face up. Rinse the large black plastic bag and hang it to dry over the prongs. Future models didn't require user to hold it and rubber tipped the ends so bags weren't pierced.
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This is indeed used for hay: for searching hay wagons trying to smuggle people in or out. Most smugglers knew enough to put the cargo down low enough so a regular pitch fork couldn't reach, so they invented this. It is of course German.
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On the picture behind the tool a farmer(?!) is using it in a field of sunflowers it seems. It looks like he is using it as a dowsing-rod, looking for water. Or maybe he's measuring? Or planting seeds? Or killing something, like moles, or rabbits, rats, mice, and their holes?
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Easy, it's a six-pronged skewer for medieval-style shishkebabs that you cook over a fire like a spit. You put the meat on each stick or you could jam a whole pig in there. Mmmm.
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