How Food Is Made
Fermentation, curing, baking — the processes behind ordinary food.
What makes bread dough rise?
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Fermentation, curing, baking — the processes behind ordinary food.
What makes bread dough rise?
Coffee, tea, beer and spirits — what they are made from and where they come from.
Coffee is made from the roasted seeds of what?
The everyday symbols and conventions nobody explicitly teaches you.
The symbol & is called what?
The machines themselves — who made them, what they changed, and in what order.
Which company released the Nintendo Entertainment System?
Geometry as it actually gets used — sides, angles, area and volume.
How many sides does a pentagon have?
A murder of crows, a parliament of owls, and the proper names for ordinary things.
A group of ravens is traditionally called what?
The upheavals that replaced a system rather than just a ruler.
The storming of the Bastille in 1789 marked the beginning of which revolution?
Rome to the twentieth century — what actually brought the great empires down.
The Western Roman Empire is conventionally dated as ending in which year?
Processors, memory, storage and what each part actually does.
What does the CPU do?
Telegraph, radio, television and satellites — how messages travelled first.
The electric telegraph transmitted messages using what?
Ten art movements, the cities they started in and the rules each one set out to break.
Impressionism took its name from a painting by which artist?
Narrators, serials and the machinery underneath the books people actually finish.
A story told by a character using the word "I" is written in which narrative person?
Nouns, adverbs, semicolons and the Oxford comma, without the schoolroom dread.
A word that names a person, place or thing is which part of speech?
Abjads, syllabaries and alphabets, and the very different ways writing can encode speech.
Which writing system uses characters that mostly stand for units of meaning rather than…
Trolleys, caves, veils and demons — the imagined cases philosophers argue through.
The trolley problem asks whether a person should do what?
Straw men, red herrings and false dilemmas — the recurring faults in everyday reasoning.
Attacking the person making a claim rather than the claim itself is which fallacy?
Enjambment, caesura, volta and the rest of the toolkit poets reach for by name.
A simile differs from a metaphor in which way?
Ten poets across six centuries, and the single works most readers know them by.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" opens a poem by whom?
Upstage, blocking, the strike and the calls — the working vocabulary of a theatre.
On a stage, which area is described as upstage?
Show Boat to Hamilton: the sources, the songwriting partnerships and the shows that shifted the form.
Which musical is adapted from Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion?
Cartier-Bresson to Vivian Maier: ten photographers and the work their names are attached to.
Which photographer is associated with the idea of "the decisive moment"?
Daguerreotypes, wet plates, 35mm, Polaroid and the arrival of the digital sensor.
A daguerreotype produced its image on what?
Plans, elevations, cantilevers and curtain walls — the working vocabulary of building design.
In architectural drawings, what does an elevation show?
Grids, boulevards, green belts and new capitals: the cities that were designed rather than grown.
Which official rebuilt Paris in the nineteenth century with wide boulevards cut through the…