It would only be able to heat the tea to above 100C if that point of zero nucleation remained undisturbed, and the tea held directly within it; in other words, it’s not possible.
To be clear, the liquid water flashes into steam as soon as it contacts the leaves, so technically it isn’t the supersaturated water itself heating the tea over 100º. But the steam it produces is above 100º, and that’s what heats the tea.
Water is much more likely to get supersaturated in a microwave, because water heats up in the middle of the container where there are no nucleation points. And supersaturated water heats the tea leaves above 100ºC, which can affect the flavor.
This is how Trump will spin his failed conquest of Greenland: it was really just a ploy to extort eggs from Denmark.
Technically it’s a combination of absolute humidity and temperature. Bathrooms can be prone to mold even if they’re not any more humid than the rest of the house, because metal plumbing can conduct heat out of the room into the ground—causing the room to get cold enough for moisture to condense even if the water fixtures in the room aren’t in use.
In theory, authoritarianism is the fastest way to transform a society from one form to another—so it’s rational that regimes that come to power based on the perceived need for rapid social change will be drawn to authoritarianism.
But it’s also rational for institutions to try to preserve themselves—which for these authoritarian regimes means preserving the conditions that led to the belief in their necessity, instead of delivering on the promise of transformation that would lead to their dissolution.
Edit: OP changed the question, but this reply still largely holds—although it should be noted that authoritarianism and autocracy are not the same thing.
They can just take the Nazis’ Madagascar Plan and search-and-replace “Palestinians” for “Jews”.
People only care about narratives, and a side effect of having a scientific/naturalistic worldview is that things like disease become narratively inert.
People used to care a lot more about diseases when they could be given narrative causes like witchcraft or demons.
Yes, but so far the Washington Post (unlike the Times article Trump shared) isn’t openly advocating for purging gays from the military.
It was the right-wing Washington Times, not the Washington Post.
I don’t agree that they should be eliminated. They’re there for a reason.
Prohibition was there for a reason. Witches were tried for a reason. Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia for a reason.
Having a reason doesn’t make you right.
For instance, formal burial customs began to appear around 110,000 years ago in Israel for the first time worldwide, likely as a result of intensified social interactions.
Wait—are they saying formal burial customs appeared worldwide at that time (including Israel), or that the Israeli site was the first appearance in the world?
A photoshopped stock image of a rock hitting the north pole of modern earth? Is that adding anything of value to the article?
“It’s what anyone else would do.”
It just depends on which type of serifs he puts on the X.
Unless Musk decides to use it for shipping people to Mars.
Small phones, structuralism, and Mr. Rogers.
Don Mclean’s Vincent.
The winner in the general election will almost certainly be a Democrat, but California has an open, top-two primary. If left-leaning voters can unite behind a second Democratic candidate, and Republican voters split their votes between two or more candidates, it’s plausible that the general election could come down to Harris and a second Democrat to her left.
Republicans who have already demonized Harris after the 2024 campaign might then vote for the other Democrat, just on the basis of their negative view of Harris—so Harris being in the race could swing the election further to the left.
Hmm… I thought superheating referred to heating water over 100º by pressurizing it, not by heating it at normal pressure without allowing bubbles to form.
Because technically the steam is dissolved in the water above its saturation point, right? If the gas were (say) CO2 instead of steam, wouldn’t “supersaturated” be the correct term?