»> For this, anemometers are used, devices similar to weather vanes. They are calibrated in wind tunnels so that the number of turns of their blades corresponds to a specific speed. It works something like this: in the wind tunnel,…
Packaged snacks are made in automated processes, without manual contact. Among the dozens of types that exist, we chose the four most popular to detail the manufacture: fried snacks, baked snacks, extruded snacks (those like “styrofoam”) and french fries. The…
ILLUSTRATES Andre Toma THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE COVER REPORT THE UNIVERSE OF ANGELS AND DEMONS. CHECK OUT THE OTHER PARTS: + How is the hierarchy of Catholic angels? + How was Lucifer expelled from paradise and turned into…
(nilimage/iStock) QAP means “I’m listening”, QSL is the same as “understood” and TKS is a way of saying “thank you”. These and more than 30 other acronyms make up the so-called Q code, created in 1912 in an international convention…
One_of_the_many_court_jesters_(8489822016) Everything indicates that they were the best comedians of their time, the Middle Ages. Contrary to what many people think, these commoners paid to entertain the nobility and royalty were not crazy, nor were they part of the team…
(Gabriel Góes/) Brazilians literally translated the US slang: “come out of the closet”. This, in turn, was probably created from two other expressions in the English language. In the 19th and 20th centuries, “come out” (“go out” or “disclose”) was…
– (Deborah Horiuchi/Strange World) 1. With just one clip it’s not enough, but with two yes. Unbend one of them by hand until it is bent in half at a 150 degree angle. With pliers, remove the ball from the…
You could say that the nail is little more than a cemetery of cells: the tissue that composes it is formed by cells that die under the skin of the fingers and are continually pushed by new layers that do…
Reader’s question Helenn Ady Ianusz, Itajaí, SCIllustrates Marcos de Lima male surgeryThe most common procedure is metoidoplasty. Duration: 2-3hCost: BRL 45 thousand 1. Doctors make an incision in the skin around the clitoris so as to release the organ from…
Under normal conditions, most of the gases that form farts come from our mouths. Only 10% of these gases arise in the fermentation of food along our large intestine. The rest is nothing more than air that we accidentally swallow…