Why do lima beans taste bad?

Why do lima beans taste bad? The reason is starch, the same characteristic that seems to put so many people off from frozen, canned and even fresh limas. As the dried beans cook, that starch goes from chalky to creamy, yielding tender, velvety beans in a creamy, buttery-tasting suspension. What is baked bean sauce made […]

Does the Distributive Law work for division?

Does the Distributive Law work for division? It does NOT work when we subtract or divide. The Distributive Law (“multiply everything inside parentheses by what is outside it”). When we multiply two numbers, each of the numbers is called a factor. What is the distributive of division? Distributive Property of Division The distributive law of […]

How much is a Steiff dog worth?

How much is a Steiff dog worth? Although some are quite scarce, early Steiff dogs, cats, pigs and monkeys (to name just a few of the animals Steiff made) seldom exceed $1,000 in price, with most in the low hundreds. Your fox terrier is a fine example of a mid-20th Century Steiff production. What is […]

What was the Dene migration?

What was the Dene migration? For years, scientists have believed North America was populated through waves of migrants from Siberia beginning about 15,000 years ago. Another wave about 5,000 years ago is thought to have brought the Dene. The final one, about 800 years ago, introduced the ancestors of today’s Inuit. Or so went the […]

Who proved Catalan conjecture?

Who proved Catalan conjecture? Catalan’s Conjecture predicts that 8 and 9 are the only consecu- tive perfect powers among positive integers. The conjecture, which dates back to 1844, was recently proven by the Swiss mathematician Preda Mih˘ailescu. A deep theorem about cyclotomic fields plays a crucial role in his proof. How many Mersenne primes are […]

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