Blast fishing or dynamite fishing is the practice of using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection.
Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing method in which fishermen use trained cormorants to fish in rivers.
Tic-tac is a traditional method of signs used by bookmakers to communicate the odds of certain horses. It is still used in on-course betting in the UK. A tic-tac man will usually wear bright white gloves to allow their hand movements to be easily seen.
The 20th Century is a cocktail, created in 1939 to commemorate the new streamlined Henry Dreyfuss designed 20th Century Limited express passenger train.
The Black Velvet is a beer cocktail made from Guinness and champagne. It was created in 1861, to mourn the passing of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s Prince Consort.
A banana equivalent dose is a concept occasionally used by nuclear proponents to place in scale the dangers of radiation by comparing exposures to the radiation generated by a common banana.
In toxicology, the median lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for “Lethal Dose, 50%”) of a toxic substance or radiation is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration.
“A quine is a computer program which prints its own listing. This may sound either impossible, or trivial, or completely uninteresting, depending on your temper and your knowledge of computer science.”
Paint-by-numbers plan for Vermeer’s The Artist’s Studio.
The perfect intersection of design and art?
Utopian Alphabet, Thomas More
