{"id":12479,"date":"2012-09-27T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12479"},"modified":"2012-09-27T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T08:00:08","slug":"theres-more-than-one-way-to-crack-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12479","title":{"rendered":"There&#039;s More Than One Way to Crack an Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/food\/2012\/09\/what_s_the_best_way_to_crack_an_egg_how_physics_can_help_you_when_you_re_making_your_next_souffl_.html\">Cracking Eggs 101<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[S]cience has finally come up with an explanation for what comes naturally to most home cooks: Eggs crack best around their equators, says MIT mechanical engineer Pedro Reis, because of their geometry. He and a young colleague, Arnaud Lazarus, have just published a paper in <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em> demonstrating a link between an eggshell\u2019s geometry (it belongs to a class of shapes known as ovoids) and a mechanical property called <em>rigidity<\/em>\u2014the quality that, along with strength, determines how much force an object can withstand before it cracks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracking Eggs 101 [S]cience has finally come up with an explanation for what comes naturally to most home cooks: Eggs crack best around their equators, says MIT mechanical engineer Pedro Reis, because of their geometry. He and a young colleague, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}