Cook's Illustrated magazine advises you to find out where your broiler's "hot spots" are by positioning bread slices all across the oven and studying the results after they are toasted. Link -via Nag on the Lake
Cook's Illustrated magazine advises you to find out where your broiler's "hot spots" are by positioning bread slices all across the oven and studying the results after they are toasted. Link -via Nag on the Lake
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Too bad the broiler doesn't work. But the rest of it needs no electricity, so it warms the house when the power is out.
I again was taught this "trick" when I was in home-ec class in the mid 80's. I think there has been innovation in home appliances that you would not need to do this with a new range/oven. Maybe anything pre 90's though.
They do bring up the point that people refer to "intelligent materials", but I think the study does more to show the ridiculousness of that label rather than the actual intelligence of the slime mold. "Smart materials" or "responsive materials" would perhaps be better.
If a plant is placed in the same maze, with nutrients at one end, it would be intelligent? Its roots would fill out the same maze, and in the end, the root that finds the nutrients would grow the strongest. Same result.
Am I missing something?
In any case, it's just doing it's thing, growing toward a food source. If you consider that intelligent, then we must consider a whole bunch of things 'intelligent', like DNA and virii, various internal organs, all types of plants and stuff.
Putting something in a maze is a poor test for this kind of thing, i think. Why do so many 'scientists' think maze=smart? bah!
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