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The kilogram doesn't weigh a kilogram any more. This sad news was announced during a seminar at CERN on Thursday, 26 October by Professor Klaus von Klitzing, who was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the quantised Hall effect. "We are about to witness a revolutionary change in the way the kilogram is defined," he declared.
Together with six other units – metre, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela – the kilogram, a unit of mass, is part of the International System of Units (SI) that is used as a basis to express every measurable object or phenomenon in nature in numbers. This unit's current definition is based on a small platinum and iridium cylinder, known as "le grand K", whose mass is exactly one kilogram. The cylinder was crafted in 1889 and, since then, has been kept safe under three glass bell jars in a high-security vault on the outskirts of Paris. There is one problem: the current standard kilogram is losing weight. About 50 micrograms, at the latest check. Enough to be different from its once-identical copies stored in laboratories around the world.
To solve this weight(y) problem, scientists have been looking for a new definition of the kilogram.
Dang. That throws the easily memorable conversion of 1kg=2.2lbs right out the window.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 07 2017, @07:52PM (3 children)
Grocery Outlet often sells stuff at a steep discount. The key is to look for handwritten prices rather than computer-printed tags.
Last night I discovered that bags of grated cheese are cheaper than blocks of cheese.
I'm planning to make "Poor Man's Pizza". I invented this when I was at UCSC. Use a flour tortilla for the pizza crust. It is surprisingly good.
I really enjoy cooking, but my commute to work takes so much time out of my day that I really only have time to cook on weekends. But Grocery Outlet is selling hammocks quite cheaply, so I'm going to make some beans with ham just like Mom used to make.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday November 07 2017, @09:37PM
Well if you make 6-8 pounds of pulled pork on a Sunday, for example, you should have enough food for the next 3-4 days without any prep on the weekdays. (My reasoning for 3-4 days is that each 2 pounds should be in the ballpark of 1500 calories, not counting rice, and hopefully won't be the only thing you eat that day.)
I am thinking of swapping the pork for beef brisket to make something like barbacoa, and then throw that onto tacos.
That's bizarre about the grated vs. block cheese but I have seen stuff like that before.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 09 2017, @12:14PM (1 child)
I can get a dozen eggs for maybe $0.70 at cheapest.
If one egg = about 75 calories, and there are 12 of them, that's over 1200 calories per dollar. Moreover, they are a great source of protein.
If you use the right dishware, you should be able to prepare them in a microwave. Then slap them on a bagel or English muffin. You can also use eggs in fried rice.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 10 2017, @05:10AM
they worked out quite well.
During my time of homelessness I was invited to live in a trailer by the landlord of a friend of mine. They only way to cook was a microwave.
I kept tripping the circuit breaker for no reason I could figure out. Then the power failed completely; resetting the breaker didn't help. So I inspected what I at first though was just one extension cord. It turned out to be two, with their junction exposed to the elements. I cut the carbonized junction off and now keep it as a souvinier.
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