There are all sorts of terminology you could use to mess with the head of someone who associates the word microwave only with the oven. For example: microwave plumbing for piping around and dispensing microwaves.
There is a difference between wanting to see English used correctly and correcting someone at an inappropriate time or context. The latter is where the idea of a grammar Nazi comes from, that someone acts like correct grammar is more important than responding to the actual topic at hand. There are also plenty of cases of people who act like they've made some sort of substantive attack on a statement by attacking the grammar instead of the content, and this is especially fallacious in a world where typos are easy even for people who very well understand spelling and the rules of grammar,
Cut a bunch of slits into a large marshmallow and put a chocolate inside of it so it is being forced open. Then close it, and put a band around it that will dissolve in hot liquid, like very thick gelatin or something sugary (might be slower). If you could find some pre-existing candy to use, or make the rings ahead of time, it could be done in less time than it takes to heat up milk.
Monitoring body temperature from the skin is rather difficult, outside of some uncomfortable places for a bandage like approach. Activity and outside temperature can have a stronger effect than a fever would. Expensive fever detecting thermal cameras in a controlled environment still have false positive rates of 20-50% from last time I looked into it (although were more sensitive than self reporting).
The pucks were only ~150 g from the description, which would be like drinking half a can of soda. Probably someone working with molten gold has that much day-to-day variation in sweat
I don't know how accurate I would call this, as seems much more on the aesthetic side. But the Rayleigh-Taylor instability occurs on scales all the way from coffee cups up to light year sized nebula, allowing for all sorts of structural parallels between deep space and every day life. The movie The Fountain also made heavy use of this, using a lot of macro photography and very little CGI. Regardless, the results are quite cool and pretty.
The images can be made the opposite way, so crossing your eyes works, which is how you would invert the more common version that expects your eyes to focus behind the image. I like the crossed eye version, because you can put two dots below the image as a guide: cross your eyes just enough to see three dots and not four, and the image just works.
Yes, that is part of what I was saying. Every attempt I've seen to put numbers to voter fraud in the US shows the results were insignificant for non-local elections, meaning it didn't make any difference. We should still strive to reduce that, but much of what has been tried seems, at best, more theater than actual progress. Large efforts to target infrequent occurrences can also easily have costs that far outweigh the benefits.
There are recipes around for ferrofluids too. But the quality and effects you get can depend heavily on how fine of a powder you use, what surfactant you use, and what medium is used. Some of the stuff gets quite expensive.
Voter fraud has been a concern for decades and there have been some rather in depth studies with every major election. But most people won't read hundred page plus reports (I used to, but haven't in a couple years), and news stories have no problem incorrectly summarising them. But every time in my memory, there were people acting like that election was special because their side lost, when fraud has been pretty consistent and insignificant. That is not the same as saying there is no fraud, but it often is in places that aren't close enough to matter, and often nonexistent in close contests that were heavily scrutinized (e.g. Chicago was much, much worse than Florida in 2000). What fraud there is also tends to be of the kind that wouldn't be abated by things like voter ID laws and poll observers.
The vast majority of discussion of voter fraud though seems to be disconnected from any actual data, even if every anctedote is taken at face value. I find it disingenuous when people talk about something as important, yet disregard resources freely available.
There is a limited edition watermelon ice cream with chocolate chip "seeds" in western Canada at the moment, and some friends have reported seeing the same thing pop up elsewhere from other brands. I don't particularly care for the cream and watermelon combination and would probably like a watermelon sorbet much more (even though I like lemon and orange flavored ice cream more than the sorbet versions).
Read what I said. I said "some" research, not "serious" research. You're inflating what people say to comical proportions, which only creates strawmen.
No one is expecting you to do a dissertation. But if you claim to admire someone without having learned a little bit about who they are, you will get called out for being superficial. Personally, I think expressing passion for a person (or any topic) while being shallow about it, is far worse than being inconsiderate in the course of light-hearted fun.
And the only specific people I've imitated by costume are ones I've known personally and for whom I was reasonably sure they could take a joke. There are so many possible costumes out there, even with budgetary or other constraints, it is easy to have fun while simply avoiding obvious baggage.
Yes, I've warn costumes in the past when I was younger that would be in bad taste. No one is saying it is a mortal sin to do so that forever brands you as a bad person for having done so. Everyone makes mistakes and has ignorance. What often defines a person then is how they learn from those mistakes or when ignorance is pointed out. Don't overcomplicate and exaggerate what should be a rather simple.
If nothing is good enough to disguise it for you, you might want to avoid any confectioneries or prepared foods that are red (anywhere from ruby pink to crimson) because it might be made with carmine.
The vast majority of discussion of voter fraud though seems to be disconnected from any actual data, even if every anctedote is taken at face value. I find it disingenuous when people talk about something as important, yet disregard resources freely available.
No one is expecting you to do a dissertation. But if you claim to admire someone without having learned a little bit about who they are, you will get called out for being superficial. Personally, I think expressing passion for a person (or any topic) while being shallow about it, is far worse than being inconsiderate in the course of light-hearted fun.
And the only specific people I've imitated by costume are ones I've known personally and for whom I was reasonably sure they could take a joke. There are so many possible costumes out there, even with budgetary or other constraints, it is easy to have fun while simply avoiding obvious baggage.