(02-23-2018, 02:47 PM)robkelk Wrote:

Quote:No one has finished Alexandra's Pizza's massive donair after 17 attempts in the last five months

Apparently, nobody.

(02-23-2018, 04:38 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:

(02-23-2018, 02:47 PM)robkelk Wrote:

Quote:No one has finished Alexandra's Pizza's massive donair after 17 attempts in the last five months

Apparently, nobody.

You would think after all those people taking bites of it, someone would have finished it off by now... <grin>

Quote:Craig Buckley, the founder of Kettleman's Bagel Co., says Montreal bagels are the next fast-food concept, and he's looking to expand his shop, which makes Montreal-style bagels in Ottawa, to the Montreal and Toronto markets.

He's even looking to buy one of Montreal's iconic bagel shops.

Quote:Robert Morena, the co-owner St-Viateur Bagel, said it's "preposterous" that an Ottawa bagel shop which makes Montreal-style bagels should try to set up in Montreal.

"It doesn't sound right: 'We're going to go to Rome and build a Coliseum,'" he said.

(03-10-2018, 06:08 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: ... just what constitutes a "Montreal" bagel?  (Asks the guy who considers New York bagels the platinum-iridium standard.)

Spoiler

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, that is - colloquially known as "dark matter".

Quote:Yes, great white sharks are typically solitary creatures, so researchers were a bit surprised to realize just how many of them travel to the same spot halfway between Hawaii and Mexico’s Baja California. And yes, it’s true that the strange behavioral patterns the sharks exhibit once they get there—diving 1,000 feet toward the ocean floor and back up again, as often as every 10 minutes, for example—have never been previously recorded in any study of great white shark migration.

But do not worry. Hundreds of great white sharks have been mysteriously drawn to the same New Mexico-sized patch of the Pacific every spring for at least the last 10 years, like it’s some kind of shark Davos. Seriously, you do not need to be concerned.

It should not bother you at all that scientists have been watching this spot for more than a decade and they still don’t know what they’re doing down there.

Quote:The scientists will need time to parse all of this new information, including new mysteries like one about why male and female sharks move differently through the water. The males move up and down rapidly — sometimes 120 times a day. Females will go up to the shallow water at night, then down much deeper in the day.

"The male white shark and the female white shark are doing completely different things, and that's not something we've seen so much before," Block said. "We have to spend some time studying these behaviors to try to understand if this is courtship behavior or is this really a feeding or foraging behavior."

(05-29-2018, 11:50 AM)robkelk Wrote: Beware of the beaked aggressors