Using The Cray Supercomputer to Make Ice Cream More Delicious

If the next time you eat an ice cream you notice that it's yummier, you have a computer to thank. A supercomputer, actually.

The processing power available inside modern supercomputers isn’t just able to help us better understand the universe we live in, develop better medicines, and model complex systems. Apparently it is also helping to make better ice cream.
Research has been carried out at the University of Edinburgh to simulate the soft matter that makes up ice cream. More specifically, scientists are trying to understand the complex interactions occurring between the many different ingredients that make up your favorite flavor of the delicious cold stuff.

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Listen to Cars 4 Kids' radio ad. tune.

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Wikipedia said this: "It is argued that this song is the single most performed and most translated piece of music on Earth"

I have never heard that song before. Ever.

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Of course! hateful people hate innocence most.

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I, too, was trapped on this ride for about 45 minutes when I was a very young teen. The repetitive music quickly becomes a form of torture that has been recognized and banned under the Geneva Conventions, and the creepy, dirty, cracked and peeling animatronic dolls were frightening.
I refused to go on this ride ever since.

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It's lovely! How can you hate on ''It's a Small World"? Dude. I saw it with my folks when I was a child and I STILL remember it. It's sweet. Sweet is fine, you know. Kids like sweet. So do many adults.

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The song "Dominique" drives me insane.

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I love It's a Small World, and the song is magic to me.
Then again I love accordions, banjos, synthesizers, harps, and organs.

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As a kid I was trapped in this ride for 45 minutes because it broke down.

I still have nightmares...

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I go to Universal because I can't stand that 'song'. Universal has better stuff, anyway.

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Children's Choirs. Uuuugh. I, however,like it's a small world. I like to drive my husband crazy with it, but he is always amazed that I know all the words. It really is a short song...

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I can understand people not liking bagpipes, accordions, banjos, or synthesizers, even though I'm quite a bagpipe fan. But harps? The harp has such a beautiful sound!

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