B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 14, 2015

“I know this is against the laws of gravity; but, you see…I’ve never studied law.”

there is no gravity. the earth sucks.

Are you sure your problem is gluten. Farmers spray their wheat fields with Roundup 7 days before they harvest. It makes the wheat have a growth spurt, the growth spurt also kills the wheat plant and it dries up making it easier to harvest. Many people who thought they were gluten intolerant could eat organic wheat products with no problem. When I first heard about this I didn’t believe our government would allow something so insane. I called a friend who leases his land to a farmer for wheat, every farmer he checked with uses Roundup. Our government is owned body and soul by Wall Street banksters and large corporations (before some idiots tries to make it a party thing, it’s both Democrats and Republicans who are corrupt). Quit voting for “our crook” or things will never get better, most of our Congress is on the take.

Pretty simple. The book is one of those two-books-in-one books (where you read to the halfway point and turn the book upside down and start over for the second book). The second book is “The Theory of Levity”.

Gravity is the mutual attraction between any two or more object with mass. If the entire universe was void except for two marbles separated by billions of miles; eventually they would collide as they attrached each other.

@Ghretighoti: very clever screen name!

Gravity, it’s not just a good idea, it’the Law.

Gravity exists, that’s a fact. How it works is the theory.

Obviously, most dishes are gluten free if you don’t add flour for no reason. I thicken stews with corn flour, or oats (oats have a gluten – but a different kind than wheat). As for bread products, things like cake and banana bread and pancakes work just fine with gluten free flours. Millet flour is especially good for cake texture, and I recommend “Bob’s Red Mill” brand on Amazon for experimenting with a wide variety of different flours. If you don’t create your own recipes, try “chocolatecoveredkatie.com”.

Breads that are kneaded and stretched, like pizza dough, have no gluten free “equivalents” that are even remotely comparable. Just try to forget they exist. If the recipe says “avoid over mixing” or “avoid over beating” – substitute a gluten free flour with confidence. If it says “knead for 10 minutes” – forget it.

I love buckwheat for pancakes. It has a strong robust flavor. I love millet for cakes. It has a delicate sweet flaver. For dumplings in stew, I like garbonzo bean and corn flour. Sourghum is also good for pancakes. Amaranth flour was interesting, but I didn’t like it well enough to buy it again.

Oh – handy tip: experiment with one serving breads and cakes by mixing a one serving fraction of the ingredients in a mug or coffee cup, and microwave for about 90 seconds (adjust time for your microwave). You can make mistakes without wasting much.

Nose to Toes…Toes to Nose…

So, you’re a member of the church of Monsanto, hey? Yum, herbicides and pesticides on my food, more please!!

uhhmmmm – why is the title on the back of the book???

Ummm, no. RoundUp is NOT a pesticide. It it s herbicide and it kills plants by inhibiting a key enzyme that is essential for the plant’s protein synthesis. It has no obvious poisonous effect on insects, people or other animals but there is some debate over the long term chronic effects.

Roundup is glyphosate, a non-selective herbicide. It will kill any plant, except higher than normal doses would be needed to kill Monsanto’s “Roundup-Ready” genetically engineered Roundup resistant crop plants. Monsanto jumps at the chance to sic a legion of lawyers on a farmer whose field has been invaded by their patented genetic material, but too bad for the organic farmer who has Roundup drift onto his field from the neighbor’s spraying.Monsanto is evil.

“Round up doesn’t make things grow; it is a pesticide.”.herbicideit kills plants not immune to it

Not true on the Roundup. Check Snopes. We are wheat farmers. Have been informed that wheat buyers are testing for Roundup and will reject whole fields if thy find any trace. Not because it’s used on wheat, but because it’s commonly used on neighboring crops and can drift over.

I didn’t say Monsanto was the only manufacturer, but they have a particularly nasty attitude.I have a BS in Horticulture, BTW, and have used Glyphosate sparingly, when it was necessary. On my property, I sprayed the lower leaves of poison ivy in a tree. It killed the ivy, but ten years later, the grass is spotty and thin underneath, and the tree looks sparse compared to its neighbors of the same age and species.http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/15/dr-don-huber-interview-part-2.aspx

“Round up doesn’t make things grow; it is a pesticide”.Actually, “Round-Up” is a herbicide and it does force a plant to grow uncontrollably until it dies…

Boy, I am glad this is just a comic…

Newton is correct for macro levels of time, space and mass.

Gravity affects all three.

If it’s space-time, why do physicists say the big bang happened 13.6 billion years ago? It’s still happening. Why do they separate time from space? I guess it’s because they are trapped in three dimensions.

B.C. can panel-walk!

(Which makes this statement unlikely:Farmers spray their wheat fields with Roundup 7 days before they harvest. It makes the wheat have a growth spurt,)

(And while I’m at it, I may as well mention that “centrifugal force” doesn’t really exist even though that is a common expression..An object which is moving in a path around a center of curvature is acclerating inward. This is called centripetal acceleration. It can be expressed as the square of tangential velocity divided by the radius of curvature. (It can also be expressed as the square of radians per unit time multiplied by the radius of curvature. Same thing.).That acceleration multiplied by the mass of the object tells us the force required to keep the object on that curving course.)

Is today’s strip upside down?

the world is messywe make sense of the mess by idealizing the situationyet the mess remains even as we ignore it

@tundrasea“Go ask your high-school physics teacher whether gravity is considered to be a “force” or an “acceleration” in Newtonian physics.”.Regrettably, Mr. J. Floyd Smith died about 30 years ago. I do remember what he taught, and that ain’t it..I could ask my physics professors at Auburn, but most of them have retired by now..I could turn to the common usages which are clueless and just use the term as you do, which is dimensionally obviously incorrect..Maybe you’ll trust my buddy, Wiki:“In science and engineering, the weight of an object is usually taken to be the force on the object due to gravity. Its magnitude (a scalar quantity), often denoted by an italic letter W, is the product of the mass m of the object and the magnitude of the local gravitational acceleration g ; thus: W = mg.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight

the units of force are given from dimensionally examining F = m a for example, in SI (which is commonly called metric since it uses meters or metres), m is kilogramsa is acceleration in metres/second/second — change in velocity with timeTherefore, force has the units of (kilogram-metre)/(second squared) This unit of force is called the Newton, obviously in praise of Wayne Newton, the singer rather than the cookie which is also good.

“But Fig Newtons are actually a measure of the Dine force.”.But for any who missed the joke, “dine” is pronounced the same as “dyne” which is the unit of force in the centimetre/gram/second system of measurements..It is the force required to accelerate one gram mass one centimetre/second per second of acceleration..To get a handle on the size of the force, a nickle masses about 5 gramsthe acceleration of gravity is about 980 centimetres/second/secondapplying F = m a = m g, we get the force of keeping a nickle from moving is 5 grams times 980 cm/sec/sec so a nickle on earth weighs 4900 dynes. .You can see a dyne is a small critter.

@BrassOrchid @DavidHuieGreen“One horsepower is equal to 7.46B dyne centimeter/second.One watt is equal to 36B dyne centimeter/ hour.Now we just need to figure out how many dynes are in the calories contained in one Fig Newton.”..That would be dyne-centimetres (also known as an erg), of course since a dyne is merely a unit of force and work or energy is force times distance. So we proceed from there:.

Per:http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-newtons-cookies-fig-i82541

Nutrition FactsServing Size 2 cookies (31 g)Calories 110.Naturally, that is really kilocalories and only one cookie, so 55 kilocalories per fig newton.As everyone knows, 1 kilocalorie = 4184 joules, so one fig newton is 55 times that or 230,120 joules

A dyne-centimetre is the energy required to move a one gram mass one centimeter under an acceleration of one centimetre per second per second of accelerationA joule is one Newton-metre or one kilogram-metre-metre/second/second, converting kilograms to grams means 1000 grams in place of the kilograms and a hundred centimetres per metre means we substitute a hundred of them.So now a joule is 1000 grams times 100 centimetres times 100 centimetres per second per secondWhich is to say, a Joule is 10 million dyne-centimetre or a Joule is 10 million ergs.We have calculated that a fig Newton is 230,120 joules, so we only have to multiply that by ten million ergs per Joule, and we have 2.3012 times ten to the fifth times ten to the seventh which yields 2.3012 times ten to the 12th power ergs per Fig Newton or 2.3012 trillion ergs per Fig Newton or 2.3012 trillion dyne-cm per Fig Newton..But how many Fig Newtons are exactly 15.5 grams? Regardless, since we only have the original calories to three significant figures, the final answer shouldn’t be any higher, so we end with 2.30 trillion dyne-centimetre per Fig Newton..QED (Latin for “nothin’ to it”)

(Down from 2.30 trillion to 2.3 trillion.)