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The students installed special collection boards in urban areas of Nantes, France, where passersby could stick their used gum rather than dropping it on the floor. Passersby stick their gum to public collection boards The gum was then collected every week before the gum was ground together with the collection board itself, which is made from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plastic. The PMMA helps to stabilise the chewing gum as it is melted together and machined into wheels. "During our test phases we needed between 10 and 30 chewing gums per wheel, depending on the size of the gum and the...

I recently finished drafting the most challenging book I’ve written to date. Not only did it require the highest word count and psychological complexity I’ve navigated thus far, but its writing period spanned several years and became punctuated by numerous pauses, some stretching out for months at a time. Paradoxically, I felt an urgent need to complete this story, and each time I returned to it, I chafed at the lengthy but necessary reimmersion period. I wanted to leap into laying down new track, dang it. Not spend my time refamiliarizing myself with who did what to whom, and when....

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(We know we’ve gotten people asking for it when making our pao de quiejo recipe.) And you’ve likely gotten a list of different starches. So then you use something else, but it doesn’t give you the result you’re hoping for. That’s because although starches are all technically starches (i.e. long strands of sugar molecules), they each perform differently. So while you can use one for the other in some cases, it doesn’t always work. This guide gives you a quick breakdown of the different starches we commonly encounter—and how you can use each one in cooking or baking for the best...