2015年12月24日
the legs at the joints.
Spatchcocking means to split open and flatten out a bird for grilling or barbecuing. This speeds up the cooking time and ensures more even cooking.
-If the bird is trussed, remove the string tying the legs together. Cut off the flap of skin at the neck, then cut off the ends of the legs at the joints.
-Remove the backbone from the bird by carefully pushing a knife into the bottom-end of the bird until you see the point of the knife emerge at the neck. Push the knife down against one side of the spine, cutting through the rib cage.
-Open up the bird and cut away the spine at the other side.
-Place the bird, skin-side down, onto the chopping board. Break the breast bone by hitting it with your hand (this will flatten the bird so that it grills more easily).
-Turn in the legs of the bird so that it looks like it's cross-legged.
-Make a hole in the loose skin connecting the legs of the bird to its body. Hook the ends of the legs into these holes. Tuck the wings under the body of the bird.
-If the bird is trussed, remove the string tying the legs together. Cut off the flap of skin at the neck, then cut off the ends of the legs at the joints.
-Remove the backbone from the bird by carefully pushing a knife into the bottom-end of the bird until you see the point of the knife emerge at the neck. Push the knife down against one side of the spine, cutting through the rib cage.
-Open up the bird and cut away the spine at the other side.
-Place the bird, skin-side down, onto the chopping board. Break the breast bone by hitting it with your hand (this will flatten the bird so that it grills more easily).
-Turn in the legs of the bird so that it looks like it's cross-legged.
-Make a hole in the loose skin connecting the legs of the bird to its body. Hook the ends of the legs into these holes. Tuck the wings under the body of the bird.
2015年12月14日
a parka-clad Luke Skywalker.
They have thick fur, of a dirty white colour – which makes sense given the snowy landscape they live in. But they seem rather unsuited to being ridden by humans reenex.
So far we have no evidence that any asteroids in the solar system are inhabited by huge worms
Almost all the animals humans ride are four-legged, the most obvious example being horses. But tauntauns are bipedal, holding their arms in front of them in the manner of a predatory dinosaur like Tyrannosaurus rex.
This means all their weight is supported by their hind legs. You would think that a tauntaun would buckle under the additional weight of a parka-clad Luke Skywalker reenex.
But not necessarily. There is one bipedal animal that humans can and do ride: ostriches. If they can handle it, presumably tauntauns can too.
Exogorths
Wait, what? These are never named onscreen, but they were memorable nonetheless. In The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo hides the Millennium Falcon in a tunnel in an asteroid – only to discover that the tunnel is home to a gigantic worm-like creature and he has parked his ship on its tongue. This beast was subsequently named as an Exogorth reenex
.
So far we have no evidence that any asteroids in the solar system are inhabited by huge worms, and it does seem rather unlikely. But the various elements of the Exogorth, on their own, have a basis in reality.
So far we have no evidence that any asteroids in the solar system are inhabited by huge worms
Almost all the animals humans ride are four-legged, the most obvious example being horses. But tauntauns are bipedal, holding their arms in front of them in the manner of a predatory dinosaur like Tyrannosaurus rex.
This means all their weight is supported by their hind legs. You would think that a tauntaun would buckle under the additional weight of a parka-clad Luke Skywalker reenex.
But not necessarily. There is one bipedal animal that humans can and do ride: ostriches. If they can handle it, presumably tauntauns can too.
Exogorths
Wait, what? These are never named onscreen, but they were memorable nonetheless. In The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo hides the Millennium Falcon in a tunnel in an asteroid – only to discover that the tunnel is home to a gigantic worm-like creature and he has parked his ship on its tongue. This beast was subsequently named as an Exogorth reenex
.
So far we have no evidence that any asteroids in the solar system are inhabited by huge worms, and it does seem rather unlikely. But the various elements of the Exogorth, on their own, have a basis in reality.
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2015年12月07日
The history of soil has been shaped
All major soil orders had appeared on Earth with the exception of grassland soils,” explains Retallack. Grasslands didn’t begin to appear until about 65 million years ago, after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The history of soil has been shaped by physical factors and living organisms, through a dynamic web of interacting processes that began at the dawn of geological time, billions of years ago. And the story of soil is continuing to unfold as a consequence of our actions over the last few centuries reenex
.
Prior to 1960, the nitrogen cycle was roughly balanced across the world. Since then, the use of nitrogen fertilisers has increased some 800%. Too many nutrients can be just as harmful as too few – excess nitrogen is washed into rivers and streams where it can cause devastating algal blooms, leading to the release of nitrous oxide, a dangerous greenhouse gas and a hazard to human health.
Large swathes of Indonesian peatlands have been burning continuously for several months now
The change is the largest the nitrogen cycle has experienced in 2.5 billion years and it could have serious consequences for our food supply and climate reenex
.
Disruptions to key nutrient cycles in the soil are particularly worrying because the soil system tends to respond slowly to change – any harm done by humans now may take decades, even centuries to repair.
Soil can be a direct source of greenhouse gases too. By trapping organic matter, soils are one of the major stores of carbon, keeping it from becoming CO2 in the atmosphere. But when, for example, peatlands are burned, that carbon finds its way back into the atmosphere.
Large swathes of Indonesian peatlands have been burning continuously for several months now, releasing more greenhouse gases each day than the entire US, in what has been described as “the greatest environmental disreenex
The history of soil has been shaped by physical factors and living organisms, through a dynamic web of interacting processes that began at the dawn of geological time, billions of years ago. And the story of soil is continuing to unfold as a consequence of our actions over the last few centuries reenex
.
Prior to 1960, the nitrogen cycle was roughly balanced across the world. Since then, the use of nitrogen fertilisers has increased some 800%. Too many nutrients can be just as harmful as too few – excess nitrogen is washed into rivers and streams where it can cause devastating algal blooms, leading to the release of nitrous oxide, a dangerous greenhouse gas and a hazard to human health.
Large swathes of Indonesian peatlands have been burning continuously for several months now
The change is the largest the nitrogen cycle has experienced in 2.5 billion years and it could have serious consequences for our food supply and climate reenex
.
Disruptions to key nutrient cycles in the soil are particularly worrying because the soil system tends to respond slowly to change – any harm done by humans now may take decades, even centuries to repair.
Soil can be a direct source of greenhouse gases too. By trapping organic matter, soils are one of the major stores of carbon, keeping it from becoming CO2 in the atmosphere. But when, for example, peatlands are burned, that carbon finds its way back into the atmosphere.
Large swathes of Indonesian peatlands have been burning continuously for several months now, releasing more greenhouse gases each day than the entire US, in what has been described as “the greatest environmental disreenex