I just enrolled into a The Great Courses membership. It's a streaming site specializing in academic lecture series. They use real professors and teachers, and seem to keep most of their production inhouse to curate their content. They're aimed for a collegiate level, and I have to say, so far the lecture series are better than what I got at my universities. Significantly.
Something I've learned: brain experiments have shown that electrical activity to activate a specific physical response begins before a conscience decision is made to do that physical action. For instance: if you bend your hand, the electrical activity to activate those nerves begins about 300 milliseconds before you decide to bend your hand. Which really throws a wrench into what you'd think conscious decision making is, and how much of our decisions run on automatic without us "thinking" them.
Something else I've learned: the difference between jelly, jam, marmalade, and fruit curd. They're all a similar process of cooking up to preserve, but they use different parts of the fruit or have additives. Jelly is made from fruit juice, jam is made from fruit flesh, marmalade is made from the whole fruit including the skin (marmalades are mainly made from fruit with usually inedible skin like citrus), and fruit curd is made from juice, grated fruit skin (zest), and eggs, to make it saucy. All of them are basically heated up gently and have granular sugar mixed into them, before being stored in sanitized jars.
I looked this up because I was interested in making preserves out of the multitude of lemons from my parents' tree which should be ripe within a month or two.
Something I've learned: brain experiments have shown that electrical activity to activate a specific physical response begins before a conscience decision is made to do that physical action. For instance: if you bend your hand, the electrical activity to activate those nerves begins about 300 milliseconds before you decide to bend your hand. Which really throws a wrench into what you'd think conscious decision making is, and how much of our decisions run on automatic without us "thinking" them.
Something else I've learned: the difference between jelly, jam, marmalade, and fruit curd. They're all a similar process of cooking up to preserve, but they use different parts of the fruit or have additives. Jelly is made from fruit juice, jam is made from fruit flesh, marmalade is made from the whole fruit including the skin (marmalades are mainly made from fruit with usually inedible skin like citrus), and fruit curd is made from juice, grated fruit skin (zest), and eggs, to make it saucy. All of them are basically heated up gently and have granular sugar mixed into them, before being stored in sanitized jars.
I looked this up because I was interested in making preserves out of the multitude of lemons from my parents' tree which should be ripe within a month or two.
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