Tuesday is International Asteroid Day.
The international community works tirelessly to address risks posed by near earth objects.
@UNOOSA explains why those efforts are key for reducing the impacts of asteroids: https://t.co/23ZVfE6W75
The burner under a Chinese restaurant wok puts out 100,000 to 150,000 BTUs of heat. The strongest burner on your home stove tops out near 12,000. Some restaurant jet burners run past 200,000. Roughly ten times your kitchen, sometimes twenty.
At that heat an empty steel wok can climb past 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and food sears the instant it touches the metal. The Cantonese call the result wok hei, the breath of the wok, the smoky charred taste you can almost never pull off at home. It comes from a few things happening at once in seconds: the browning reaction that crusts a steak, the sugars in the sauce caramelizing, and tiny droplets of oil catching fire in the air as the cook throws everything around. One dish off the fire takes about ninety seconds.
That speed is also why a giant order lands in ten minutes. Nothing sits in an oven waiting. Every ingredient is washed, cut, and portioned before you ever call, so once the ticket prints the cook is assembling, not prepping. Each dish hits the flame, gets tossed together, and slides into the box still steaming.
The wok's whole design traces back to one problem: saving fuel. Wood and charcoal ran expensive across much of old China, and a thin round metal bowl dropped into the flame heats faster and wastes less than a flat pan sitting on top of one. Cooks chopped everything small, because more surface area meant less time over the fire, and they learned to work in fast bursts of high heat.
For most of Chinese history, stir-frying wasn't even the common way to cook. Boiling and steaming came first, partly because the oil stir-frying needs was costly. The technique took off in the late Ming dynasty, the 1500s and 1600s, when firewood near the growing cities got expensive enough that cooking fast and cheap really mattered. Less fuel burned per meal, and busy city trade rewarded the speed. A money-saving trick slowly became the signature of an entire cuisine.
Steel melts around 2,500 degrees, so the food never gets remotely close. But the instinct behind that tweet is right. The reason your takeout shows up in ten minutes, scorching, is a four-hundred-year-old fix for an energy problem, still roaring under a wok tonight.
Things I learned in Canada about Canadians:
- they embrace all sorts of cultures
- they LOVE ketchup
- they have a lot of pride for their country
- they’re very welcoming
- NHL > NFL
- they say “pardon” or “sorry” a lot
We are 113 hours or roughly 4.5 days
from the time earthquakes hit Venezuela. It is now extremely unlikely survivors will be found. With 60,000 still missing, the shockwaves of grief are pouring through
Venezuelan society. Tragic beyond words. May God bless them all.
Canada already has one of the cleanest electricity grids in the world. Now, we’re building on that advantage.
Our National Electricity Strategy will double the capacity of our grid by 2050, connect electricity systems across the country, and supply clean, reliable, affordable power to all Canadians.
Paraguay make history! 🇵🇾
After scoring their first-ever @FIFAWorldCup knockout goal, they went on to defeat Germany on penalties and secure a spot in the Round of 16 👏
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed. https://t.co/v6BOQVLRnx
From @TheAthleticFC: Paraguay achieved one of the greatest upsets of recent World Cup history to defeat Germany in a penalty shootout. Germany had never lost a World Cup shootout.
Germany: ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Paraguay: ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌ ❌ ✅
https://t.co/U3nNYLHzex
🚨 96 HOURS BURIED... ALIVE.
Nearly four days beneath the rubble.
No sunlight.
Little air.
No certainty that anyone was coming.
Yet against unimaginable odds, a father and his son have been rescued alive from a collapsed building in Caraballeda, Venezuela.
It is a remarkable reminder that miracles can still happen—and why rescue teams cannot afford to stop searching.
شیر دخترمون آزاد شد✌️🥹❤️🩹
#نادیا_احسان، ۲۲ ساله و اهل تهران، ساعت ۲ بامداد ۴ بهمن با حمله وحشیانه نیروهای سرکوبگر جمهوری اسلامی به منزلش، همراه با ضربوشتم بازداشت شده بود.
(هنوز کاپشن تنشه💔)
#ما_ملت_کبیریم_ایران_را_پس_میگیریم
your phone number is personal and sometimes you want to connect without handing it over. that's why we're introducing usernames for WhatsApp.
starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch the feature. It takes just a few seconds, make sure you have the latest version of WhatsApp and then go to Settings > Account > Username.
I know dissidents and family of the slain who participated in Ashura proceedings, but admittedly I don’t know about their support for Team Melli. I think they were too distraught for Football to even register on their radar.
Genuine question:
Do you know of any dissidents, former political prisoners or family of the slain INSIDE Iran who publicly supported the national team this World Cup?
I couldn’t find any.