Day: December 8, 2020

Show Only ...
Maps - Photos - Videos

Brinta

|

The Dutch Table: Brinta

Brinta, short for Breakfast Instant Tarwe (wheat), was created in the province of Groningen in 1944. The partially English name was given to the product as a tender (or commercially sound) gesture to the English and American armed forces who were stationed in our country during that time, and who were much more familiar with robuster breakfast grains. In 1963, the year of the coldest Elfstedentocht yet, the winner of this long distance skating event happened to mention that all he had had for breakfast was "een bordje Brinta" (a serving of Brinta porridge). The connection between sports and Brinta was made, and it continues to this day.

I was watching the Saskatchewan Dutch Dairy Kid channel and he was eating Britna. 

The Chevrolet Bolt Drivetrain Is Incredibly Simple

|

The Chevrolet Bolt Drivetrain Is Incredibly Simple

The world of battery electric vehicles might seem like black magic. Electricity turns into motion with the help of controllers and inverters. However, as John Kelly from the WeberAuto YouTube channel explains, EV's are sometimes mechanically simple. Well, at least that's the case for the Chevrolet Bolt. Kelly tackles the Bolt EV’s brilliantly simple drivetrain in the latest video for his WeberAuto YouTube channel.

Electric cars are the future just because they will eventually prove much simpler to build and maintain. Gas motors with their cam shafts and transmissions are such a throw back to an earlier era of pre computers. It's so much easier to manipulate a 3 phase sine wave than have a series of gears and cam shafts to manipulate a gas motor.

We Had the COVID-19 Vaccine the Whole Time

|

We Had the COVID-19 Vaccine the Whole Time

Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial.