Petroski_Larkmead_Credit Flying Pig Studio

By Karen MacNeil
December 26, 2019

Petroski_Larkmead_Credit Flying Pig Studio

Why is “joe” a nickname for coffee, as in “a cup of joe?”

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“Bubbles are emptiness, non-liquid, a tiny cloud shielding a mathematical singularity. Born from chance, a violent and brief life ending in the union with the nearly infinite.”

—Dr. Andrea Prosperetti, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, as quoted in The New York Times (April 9, 2019)