Potpourri
This fast-casual restaurant chain, founded in California in 2006, serves an entirely vegan menu including burgers, bowls, and wraps.
What is Veggie Grill?
a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for previous telescopes
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a root-like network of fine white filaments (hyphae).
The Man who used a prism to discover that white light is composed of all colors on the color spectrum
Who is Isaac Newton?
a room designed to absorb sound or electromagnetic waves, minimizing reflections and creating a free-field environment
What is an anechoic chamber?
The name of Dr. Vuk Uskokovic's son
Who is Theo?
A large space telescope orbiting Earth, designed to capture images of the universe and help scientists understand it better. Launched in 1990, it has revolutionized astronomy through its observations
What is the Hubble Telescope?
the biochemical emission of light by living organisms such as fireflies, mushrooms, and deep-sea fishes.
What is bioluminescence?
The Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and futurist who revolutionized how the world generates, transmits, and uses electricity
Who is Nikola Tesla?
electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays. It's part of the electromagnetic spectrum and naturally present in sunlight
What is ultraviolet?
A do-it-yourself air purifier designed in 2020 that can be built comparatively inexpensively. It consists of four or five HVAC particulate air filters that form a cube and a box fan to draw air through the filters.
What is the Corsi-Rosenthal Box?
The manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers
What is nanotechnology?
a genus of fungi, many species of which are parasitic on insects
What are Cordyceps?
This American experimental composer is best known for his 1952 silent piece 4′33″
Who is John Cage?
part of the electromagnetic spectrum. A type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light but shorter than microwaves. It's invisible to the human eye but is often felt as heat.
What is infrared?
a discriminatory practice where lenders refuse or limit financial services like loans and mortgages to residents of specific neighborhoods, often based on the racial or ethnic makeup of those areas
What is redlining?
Named after a Tanzanian student who noticed it in the 1960s, this effect describes how, under the right conditions, hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
What is the Mpemba effect?
What is reishi?
Alternative: What is Ganoderma?
The name of the mysterious online persona who taught how to grow mushrooms, and often sported underwear with fungi growing on it
Who is Roger Rabbit?
A technique developed by Pauline Oliveros, a practice the explores the voluntary act of experiencing sound
What is Deep Listening?
The orbital location of the James Webb Space Telescope
What is the Lagrange point?
The shape Claire described to be pointing to the black hole at the center of our universe
What is a Teapot (Sagittarius)?
This pungent rare mushroom is an expensive delicacy in Japan. Reported to be the first organism to grow after the bombing of hiroshima. Nomadic tribes of foragers collect this mushroom in the Pacific Northwest in the path of deforestation.
What is matsutake?
The French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism
Who is André Breton?
one of two kinds of photoluminescence, the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. When exposed to certain radiation, many substances will glow with colored visible light.
What is Fluorescence?