Huh. No mention of gravel/grit? That's what our city uses instead of salting the roads. Come spring, there's a day when they come around with the sweepers to take the deposits away.

I got the same story five times in a row. And it wasn't a story I particularly wanted to re-read.

Here in Sweden the days are once again lengthening. This week it's no longer dark bringing the kids home from after-school. Within a week or two I expect it will no longer be dark taking them to school. In about a month, it will be light again for breakfast. Break out the sólarpönnukökur!

My Dad picked up a used one at a garage sale. He and my grandfather got the motor working again, but weren't able to get it to fly again. Based on this article, seems that's not surprising.

When people quip "Madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result", I point to this flight as a counter-example of how it was not madness for the pilots to try restarting the engines over and over again.

I loved the presentation style! My recipe isn't that far off from authentic Ragusea style.
My problem with the suggestion of adding a few loose dark chocolate chips is that once the bag is open, the rest of the chips seem to simply disappear within a day or so.

Two Egg, FL. Wikipedia says "Some believe poor families during the Great Depression would trade eggs for goods at the local store, while others say two eggs were dropped by accident, causing the name to be selected."

I couldn't figure out the start. Finally gave up and got the answers. A word was "NGI"? Huh? Never heard of it, and can't find a definition for it which isn't an acronym.

One of the Wikipedia citations says it's due to storm erosion, not rising sea levels. The effect is as if the island slowly migrates while the lighthouse stays in the same place. Also, in that part of the world the land is still uplifting after the glaciers, at a faster rate than sea level rise, so the sea level is effectively going down.

I'm guessing the restaurant isn't in New Mexico. When I was in South Africa I was going to visit the family of one of my Indian students. He was worried about me, so I explained "red or green." Then, as a test, I got the hottest chicken from Nando's, without breaking a sweat. Only once, in NM, have I reached a v on lalochezia's scale - Did Not Like!

That's ... one way to slant it.
Sure, we don't have access to the same materials. (We're not going to use asbestos now.) And we don't have people with the same skills.
But we also have better materials and alternative skills. 10 years ago, Pratt & Whitney Aerodyne designed the F-1B (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1#F-1B_booster ) based on the F-1 engine, but using a better design and more advanced construction techniques. The design estimate was an engine 15% more powerful than the most advanced Apollo-era engine, cheaper to build, and more reliable.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0 for the slant I prefer.
The reason why we don't send people to the moon is there's no good reason which justifies the cost, both in human lives and financial.

The mycologist must have found something good!