Alive For Decades
The oldest known sourdough starter dates from 4500 years ago in Egypt and was revived in 2019. Source: one
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Space bread
Astronauts can’t eat regular bread in space because crumbs float off in zero-gravity and can clog filters or short-circuit equipment… Read More
Microbe With a Work Ethic
Sourdough is one of the oldest known forms of leavened bread, with archaeological evidence tracing it back to ancient Egypt… Read More
The ABC’s of LSM
Living Standards Measure (LSM), introduced in South Africa in 1988, was originally an 8-segment framework designed to differentiate lifestyle standards… Read More
Slice of truth
77% of people aged 18–24 reach for their phone when nothing occupies their attention, compared with only 10% of those… Read More
Pi-oneering Memory
On 21 March 2015, Rajveer Meena at VIT University (India) set the world record for reciting 70,000 decimal places of… Read More