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Homemade? Hummus and guacamole maybe? Parkin is a very local speciality of the region I was brought up in. Can't be explained. Nothing else much like it.

I'm on the lookout for one but no luck so far. Local cooking practice has something of an on or off basis.

A few steps above me on the baking front. The oven I inherited has no temperature indications and a brutal simplicity that frankly scares me. By trial and cremated error, I've got the hang of (very) crusty bread and flapjacks. But I don't yet have the nerve to try such sophisticated stuff as you. Next on the experimental agenda is parkin. See how that goes. I'm currently adding ground almonds, but dried apricot sounds good. Not sure they're grown here, but dried mango might do the same job.

Tomatoes are hard to beat on sunny days for sure. I fondly remember gazpacho from a job I had in Spain and make a reasonable facsimile by blending chilled ripe tomatoes with pickles (onions, gherkins, chilli, garlic). I even recently tried adding a tin of sardines and couple of slices of stale bread for a more substantial treat. It works. Either hot or cold. My wife and her sisters regularly pan fry sweet potato chips as it's a staple here. I go more for Irish potatoes as a taste from home. Maris Piper etc won't grow here, but the German new potato Nicola does very well on Jos Plateau, and is a good all-rounder in the kitchen. I can warmly recommend this recipe for Bombay Aloo Like you, I'll eat half for supper warm, and then snack on the cold leftovers the following day.

I make a batch every two or three weeks. It doesn't take me 2 minutes to pull one out of the biscuit tin. 'At time of need' is the qualifier. Likewise, I always keep a stock of whole-wheat roti in the fridge. 30 seconds in the microwave, spread with blue cheese, and wrap around a pickled gherkin. Lovely! Okay, let's stretch it to ten minutes. You can be doing something else while it's in the pan, and we've got to allow bacon! Don't understand the oatmeal and baked beans though. Guess it's a Canadian thing. Or maybe you meant just the beans. 😊

What do you hoard in the fridge or back of the pantry ready for when you have an attack of the munchies? I've a few. Mainly defensible, but I've recently rediscovered my weakness for Flapjacks. The only non-Brit here who might really know what these are is @Ken Fabian as treacle (aka Golden Syrup) is an indispensable ingredient and there few places outside the UK where it's readily available. I have to make my own (but it's worth it). What's your guilty secret? (No more than 2 minutes prep time at time of need, or it's just 2nd breakfast)

Unfortunately, no longer with us. But it's good to know that enjoying both Yes and Afrobeat is not so unusual.

In my experience (albeit limited to ANI), the reality is merely a shift in boundaries. If anything, the coastline - the boundary where human inspiration is necessary - grows larger as established knowledge expands and new operations come within paddling distance of the beach. On a philosophical level, the universe is driven by a hugely diverse array of PDEs, most of which are non-analytic in their practical realisation, and each of which is subject to a (literally!) infinite variety of boundary conditions and consequent infinity of plausible solutions. Gathering the experimental data necessary to confirm each advance is not a trivial exercise. I think we're safe for a few millennia on that count alone. This afternoon while doing a bit of background study on another thread, I asked one of Google's demonic offspring to back calculate the 1D wave equation from the general solution as a check. It proceeded to use the shorthand symbol f'' for the second partial derivative of f(r,t) irrespective of whether it was with respect to the spatial or time variable, and thus convinced itself that the two quantities must be equal. (They don't even have the same dimensions). Wouldn't accept that it was wrong. And if one lacks the capability to question one's results, then how can one possibly advance?

Tom R. A. Marmot hears more about his restaurant problems: Unembraced is loop nosh, Tom: and tarsier to sip, a koala, okapi. So tries rat DNA, moths on poolside carb menu.

During my chem eng degree course in the '70s, I had a similar exposure to computers as @MigL , (mainframe Fortran mk IV, leading to in-house development of mini and microcomputer applications in later years). The combined understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of software applications and 'old-fashioned' hand calculation of standard chem eng problems earned me a lot of work in the '90s with major engineering design companies helping develop and evaluate engineering software applications that on the face of it, were intended to put chemical engineers out of a job. I doubt if anybody has routinely done the long-winded iterative stuff like distillation column tray calculations manually for a quarter of a century now, but software whether AI or conventional remains ill-equipped to deal with novelty or unpredictability, the areas where experienced chemical engineers really earn their paychecks, and I don't see the scope of those reducing in the foreseeable future. Academia, particularly that of the developing nations, has become highly proficient at churning out low cost CAD monkeys (pray forgive me!) over the last few decades, and perhaps that's no bad thing. But there are much more rewarding jobs available for those who are prepared to knuckle down and gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals. In essence, that division between steady Eddies and bright sparks has always existed. And both are necessary, they have a symbiotic relationship.

the 1300 section seems too easy (in order to ''prove' a point I suspect). Compare with this page of the Kelmscott Chaucer, with language dating from nearly a century later (and without the ''runes'').

There's a significant difference between failing to recognise social cues and dismissing them with contempt. I'm not a psychologist, but I might wager a modest sum on entitlement mentality and narcissistic personality disorder. A lot going around just now it seems. Sim-post with @exchemist Sim-post with @exchemist

Fair comment. However, it is 'simply' a matter of being absolutely clear about the substitution choices that are being made - ensuring that all other things remain equal and that the comparison is not being compromised. If the electricity produced is used to substitute for currently consumed electricity produced by fossil fuel combustion, there are potential reductions in both greenhouse gas emissions and total heat exhausted to the troposphere (because of reduced waste heat). If it is used to meet an increase in global power consumption, that energy ends up as increased tropospheric heating with no savings to mitigate. Indistinguishable. The installation costs of the solar panels could alternatively be used to cover the same land area in mirrors negating most albedo considerations. Subject to cloud cover, most of this energy would be reflected back into space reducing thermal input to the troposphere. Convince me that the 1:1 conversion of tropospheric kinetic energy into tropospheric thermal energy does not lead to a pro rata nett reduction in tropospheric kinetic energy. Is the new thermal energy reconverted back to new wind with no consequent increase in global temperatures? You may be right, at least in part. But this one is not so simple. The big models would have to be consulted I think.

That is an additional 13.7 GW of solar irradiance converted to thermal energy thus increasing the planet's surface temperature. 13.7 GW that could have been better reflected back into space by a mirror rather than absorbed by photovoltaic cells. Increasing civilisation's energy consumption simply and proportionally impacts the rate of global warming.

I meant to add to my posting that those modes of vibration that are a) consistent with the general solution and b) are self-reinforcing due to system harmonic resonance tend to appropriate most of the energy available to the system into a dynamic equilibrium of standing waves that dominate system behaviour. I've really only gone deeply into this in acoustics, where for instance musical instruments driven by a 'white noise' excitation produce clear notes with harmonic wavelengths based on integer fractions of a characteristic dimension of the instrument. Non-harmonic waves and other possible modes simply can''t compete.

Emily advises South African to let sleeping goblins lie Dale, I pray ye no help pass orc asleep no lemon roll or no melon peels across apple honey, yarpie lad!

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Perhaps the concept of a ''gentle giant' is one of yours. I am however embedded in a culture where dowries are payable, and this does put a particular slant on things, providing as it does a financial imperative for families to protect their daughters from ''spoilage'' prior to marriage. Perhaps that's a more convincing origin of these social conventions than the forces of industrialisation I mentioned above,

In who's universe? In my modest experience, most women would seem to prefer a mate who doesn't slap them around all the time.

An analogous case occurs in fluid mechanics only featuring sonic velocity instead of c. My kneejerk simplification would be to convert to spherical spatial coordinates and look at a spherically symmetrical system such as an oscillating bubble (all the phis and thetas drop out) 1/r2 d/dr(r2dY/dr) - 1/c2 d2Y/dt2 = 0 The standard substitution Y(r,t) = u(r,t)/r yields the 1D wave equation: d2u/dr2 - 1/c2d2u/dt2 = 0 which has the general solution: Y(r,t) = f(r - ct)/r + g(r + ct)/r (outgoing wave + incoming wave) The general solution just happens to support standing waves, so we can insert one or two as boundary conditions yielding forms such as:: Y(r,t) = A/r ei(kr-wt) + B/r e-i(kr+wt) (k = w/c as per usual) If we relax the spherical symmetry, terms in phi and theta appear as interference patterns. Apologies if I've missed something much deeper, but its where my mental pictures come from. Oscillating bubbles.

... which are all abstract constructions specific to a particular culture (ie yours) at a particular time in its development (ie now). Case in point is my mother-in-law, Catherine, a charming and intelligent woman now in her late seventies who believes that she may have been twelve when she was married to a man more than double her age. In conversation, it is clear that she remembers her husband with great affection and that her sole regret is that he died before his time leaving her with eight children to raise on her own... ... or rather, with the help of relatives and neighbours in the community - a support structure that most members of this site do not have access to. She is happy that her five daughters all had better educational opportunities and the chance to experience more of life before settling down into marriage. But she herself does not feel hard done by. It was simply the way things were done back then. And Igbo culture has a far longer history of stable continuity than that of those outsiders who may criticise some of its traditions. Cultural relativism is a tricky subject with all sorts of pitfalls to trap the unwary into being unable to condemn any behaviour as intrinsically 'bad'. But we must ask ourselves what might be intrinsically 'good' about enforcing a mandatory, possibly unnatural, extended period of sexual abstinence between the onset of puberty and an arbitrary 'age of consent'. The Marxist inside me suggests a socioeconomic force to produce a well-schooled pool of skilled labour to drive the ever-increasing technological demands of the military-industrial complex. The Anarchist just says I'm fortunate my preferences in the day ran to strong, full-figured women in their prime. No one ever really objected to that.

I don't frequent international fast-food franchises myself, but Domino's has built a reputation for good hygiene standards so it could be a reasonable option for you. My local Domino's (in Nigeria) is fully halal certified as it happens, but don't expect that to be the case in India. >95% of what I consume is prepared by myself. That way, I get to eat exactly what I like to eat (mainly Indian style cuisine), with lots of diet diversity, and have complete control over the hygiene aspects. This probably isn't of much help to you, but it's how I've adapted to cope over the 25+ years I've lived here. Just a matter of adopting a few sensible routine habits and not being stupid.

This pdf from microbiologysociety.org covers the basics. This may provide less protection than you imagine, especially if you are not in a predominantly Moslem region. Two reasons: they are in fact very serious about personal hygiene, only their habits and practices are unfamiliar to tourists and largely unpublished; and they will likely have increased resistance to local infectious agents. Based on personal experience, I would strongly recommend that you familiarise yourself with the what toilet facilities are standard for the area you are visiting in advance, and equip yourself accordingly. And avoid touching stuff like doorknobs and handrails in busy public areas.

Since xA+xB = 1 for a binary mixture, your equation simplifies to xA = xA which is true but of no use to anyone. Your terminology is nowhere explained, so again, that is no use to anyone. Perhaps you should start with the fundamental definition of xA and xB in terms of molar quantities nA and nB in the liquid phase. That might help get us all on the same page. Since xA+xB = 1 for a binary mixture, your equation simplifies to xA = xA which is true but of no use to anyone. Your terminology is nowhere explained, so again, that is no use to anyone. Perhaps you should start with the fundamental definition of xA and xB in terms of molar quantities nA and nB in the liquid phase. That might help get us all on the same page.

For those who just can't get enough of this thread, tune into BBC Brit - Channel 120 on African Dstv - and watch endless repeats of 'Pointless'