Taco Bell hot sauce is made from the following ingredients:
Water, Tomato Paste, Jalapeno Peppers, Vinegar, Salt, Spices,
Dehydrated Onions, Xanthum Gum, Sodium Benzoate, and Natural Flavor.
Now I think we can rule out water, but somehow, the other ingredients
clean pennies.
Looking at the tiny amounts of Xanthum Gum, Sodium Benzoate, and Natural
Flavor,
I'm going to rule those out too.
That leaves the following things to create the copper cleaning action:
Tomato Paste, Jalapeno Peppers, Vinegar, Salt, Spices, and Dehydrated
Onions
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science about it (or read more below).
A CAPTCHA is a program that can
tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen
them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web
registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse
from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No
computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots
cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every
day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent.
Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little
puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we
could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly
that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into
"reading" books
A cup of joe that’ll keep you sharp, in-focus, and happy all day long…and those side effects aren’t from the caffeine.
Behold, the Camera Lens Mug, a mug that looks JUST LIKE a Canon 24-105mm lens!
It's equipped with a lens-cap lid, rubber-grip focus and zoom rings, and an auto-focus switch that actually switches
More HERE
A liquid armour has been shown to stop bullets in tests carried out by UK scientists at BAE systems in Bristol.
The researchers have combined this "shear-thickening" liquid with Kevlar to create a new bullet-proof material.
The company is keeping the chemical formula of the liquid a secret, but it works by absorbing the force of the bullet strike and responding to it by becoming much thicker and more sticky.
The BAE scientists describe it as "bullet-proof custard".
eCube® consists of a food simulant contained in a double-skinned enclosure that mimics food temperature at approximately 15mm beneath the surface. With eCube®, the thermostat regulates the refrigeration temperature based upon food temperature rather than air temperature, thereby maintaining food at the proper temperature. When fitted to the thermostat sensor, which controls the compressor, eCube® significantly reduces the frequency of the refrigeration cycles which are now based on food temperature rather than fluctuating air temperature. By using eCube® as a cycle control mechanism, refrigeration cycles last longer but can be reduced by as much as 85%. For example, a Dairy Case cycles 3 minutes on, 2 minutes off = 12 cycles per hour. With eCube®, the cycles change to 8 minutes on, 7 minutes off = 4 cycles per hour; a 66.7% reduction in starts. As the start-up of a refrigerator compressor uses 3 times more power (i.e. start-up 12 amps, run 4 amps) considerable energy savings are achieved. In addition, the more efficient refrigeration cycle leads to a more efficient unit, which then leads to a colder storage area. Consequently, by re-adjusting the thermostat back to its normal temperature settings, there are further substantial energy savings, without compromising food safety and quality.
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