Umami
is known as the fifth flavor that the taste buds respond to, along with sweet,
salty, bitter and sour. Umami is savory,
silky and rich. It’s full of layers and notes. Umami is meaty. It’s earthy. It’s salty, but a little
bit of it goes a long way. Umami is a Japanese word that, loosely
translated, means delicious. Make this highly concentrated, savory paste to use with
pasta, in sauces, as a condiment, dip, marinade ingredient, basting sauce or as
a "secret sauce" ingredient in soups, stews, chilis and gravies. Valerie Hoff
Find recipe for homemade umami
paste at http://valeriehoff.com/content/homemade-umami-paste-condiment-cant-live-without/
Middy may
refer to a middy blouse, an item of Sailor dress worn
by girls and young women in the early twentieth century; the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, an English
railway company operating in the first half of the twentieth century; or a half
pint beer glass, a term used in certain states of
Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middy
Zeb-un-Nissa (1638
1702) was a Mughal princess and the eldest child of Emperor Aurangzeb and his chief consort Dilras
Banu Begum. She was also a poet, who wrote under
the pseudonym of
"Makhfi" (مخفی, "Hidden
One"). Imprisoned by her father in
the last 20 years of her life at Salimgarh
Fort, Delhi, Princess Zeb-un-Nissa is remembered as a poet, and
her writings were collected posthumously as Diwan-i-Makhfi. See sample translation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeb-un-Nissa
Enjambment,
derived from the French word enjambment, means to step over, or
put legs across. In poetry it means
moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark. It can be defined as a thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at
the line break,
but moves over to the next line. It
is a running on of a thought from one line to another without final
punctuation. It is used in poetry to
trick a reader. Poets lead their readers
to think of an idea, then move on the next line, giving an idea that conflicts
with it. Poets can achieve a fast pace
or rhythm by using enjambment. Multiple ideas can be expressed without using
semi-colons, periods, or commas. It
helps reinforce the main idea that
might seem to be confusing with pauses.
It can be seen in different songs and poems. https://literarydevices.net/enjambment/
This is a recipe that
Julia Child made with "Chef Brockett" (the late Don Brockett) for
Fred Rogers on one of the "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"
episodes. It was first printed with
permission from Family Communications Inc., Pittsburgh. (Unfortunately, the cookbook is out of print.)
2/3 cup chopped walnuts or
peanuts
1/2 cup chopped black
olives
1/2 cup chopped red
pimento
1/3 cup chopped fresh
parsley
1 tablespoon chopped fresh
chives
8 ounces semolina
spaghetti
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
3/4 cup Parmesan cheese or
shredded Swiss cheese
Mix walnuts, olives, pimento, parsley and chives in bowl;
set aside. Cook spaghetti according to
package directions; drain well. Place
olive oil in serving bowl. Add
spaghetti; toss to coat well. Season to
taste. Spoon walnut mixture over spaghetti. Toss lightly at the table. Serve immediately with cheese. Julia Child quotes: Eat the real thing, but a little of
it." "Anybody who looks at
things in a moderate way, an adult way, is going to be able to enjoy good
food." http://old.post-gazette.com/food/20020815suz5.asp
Excavations at Russia’s
Kostenki 11 site have uncovered one of the oldest and largest Ice Age
structures made of mammoth bones.
Hunter-gatherers assembled bones from at least 60 mammoths into an imposing ring around
25,000 years ago, say archaeologist Alexander Pryor of the University of Exeter
in England and colleagues. Building this
structure, which measures about 12.5 meters across, required a huge investment
of time and energy, the scientists report in the April 2020 Antiquity.
Bones may have come from hunted mammoths or from carcasses of animals
that died of natural causes. Sieving of
soil samples identified charred wood from fires set inside the ring, but it’s
unclear how its makers used the structure, Pryor’s team says. Circular mammoth bone structures, most dating to no
more than 22,000 years ago, previously have been found across eastern Europe
and western Russia (SN: 12/13/86). Researchers have often assumed that these
constructions, including two others found at Kostenki 11 in the 1950s and
1960s, housed people during harsh winters.
The new discovery challenges that idea.
A large, open space in the bone ring appears unsuitable for long-term
occupation, in part because it would have been difficult to roof, Pryor’s group
says. Bruce Bower https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ice-age-structure-russia-made-mammoth-bones-largest
Coordinated Universal Time (or UTC)
is the primary time standard by
which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time at 0° longitude, and
is not adjusted for daylight saving time. In some
countries, the term Greenwich Mean Time is used.
The
co-ordination of time and frequency transmissions around the world began on 1
January 1960. UTC was first officially
adopted as CCIR Recommendation 374, Standard-Frequency and Time-Signal
Emissions, in 1963, but the official abbreviation of UTC and the official
English name of Coordinated Universal Time (along with the French equivalent)
were not adopted until 1967.
'Happiness is contagious
too': caring for each other makes us
feel better--World Happiness Report names Finland the happiest country and
shows us how to move forward after the coronavirus outbreak. Finland
remains at number one for the third year running, while the UK has edged up the
table, rising from 15th place to 13th. The
report--compiled by a group of independent experts and produced by the UN
Sustainable Development Solutions Network--uses six variables to measure the
quality of life in more than 150 countries across the globe: GDP per capita; social support; healthy life
expectancy; freedom; generosity and absence of corruption. Joanna Moorhead https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/20/happiness-is-contagious-too-caring-for-each-other-makes-us-feel-better-experts
The
word equinox literally translates to equal ("equi")
and night ("nox") in Latin. The term vernal means "new and
fresh," and comes from the Latin word vernus for
"of spring." In 2020, spring arrived earlier
than it has in 124 years. Michele
Debczak https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/577353/spring-equinox-facts Most countries experienced the vernal equinox
on March 19—the others on March 20.
The novel coronavirus presents an
unprecedented challenge for scientists: The
speed at which the virus spreads means they must accelerate their research. But this is what the world's fastest supercomputer was
built for. Summit, IBM's supercomputer
equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to
analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting
host cells. The supercomputer identified
77 of them. It's a promising step toward
creating the most effective vaccine. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
published their findings in the journal ChemRxiv. Summit was commissioned by the US Department of Energy in
2014 for the purpose it's serving now--solving the world's problems. It's got the power of 200 petaflops, which
means it has the computing speed of 200 quadrillion calculations per second,
aka: It's 1 million times more powerful
than the fastest laptop. At its station in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in
Tennessee, Summit has identified patterns in cellular systems that precede
Alzheimer's, analyzed genes that contribute to traits like opioid addiction and predicted extreme weather based on climate
simulations. Scottie Andrew https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/fastest-supercomputer-coronavirus-scn-trnd/index.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2243
March 20, 2020
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