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Baking Powder and Bitter Taste

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

This past Friday I ended up baking a small cherry cake for our family. The recipe was very simple - it only had 5 ingriedents: flour, baking powder, eggs, oil and pie filling. Unfortunatly, after the cake was baked, it turned out that it tasted very bitter to me. My ...

Blood Types in the Former USSR

Monday, May 1st, 2006

One of the pleasures of parenthood is decoding vague medical information related to yourself. Being born in the former USSR, my blood type is referenced using a number rather then a letter (A, B, AB or O). I was unabled to find a ready reference for the conversion, so instead ...

Why do people sneeze in the sun?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

I also wondered why I tend to sneeze after walking into the sun from shade. Apparently it is a known condition called "ADCHOO" - Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst or photic sneeze reflex. It also is genetic and affects about 25% of the world. More info in this Wikipedia article. Learning ...