'I believe it is in the best interests of our country for him to step aside.'

'Fool around'

'We must defeat Donald Trump'

The speech is 3.8 times longer than Biden's in 2020

Our article on 10 of the Strangest Cover Versions of Classic Rock Songs Ever Released takes a look at some pretty bizarre and very original remakes of classic rock songs. Some are a little more out there than others, some done in a serious fashion as artistic statements, while others were probably just meant to entertain—which I guess is the best word for that. Nonetheless, we really dug deep to try and pick out some very creative pieces that you may have never heard before, and then of course, we also included some of the most popular strange cover versions The post 10 Of The Strangest Cover Versions Of Classic Rock Songs Ever appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Have you been blessed with a bumper crop of homegrown beans? Come learn 7 different ways to preserve fresh green beans to make them last. This post covers several different methods to preserve pole or bush beans, including easy recipes and tips on how to can, pickle, dehydrate or freeze green beans and more. Nothing beats eating fresh, snappy green beans from the garden in the summertime. I love them cooked or raw! Yet we always grow far more than we can use fresh, so we’ve had to get creative and find ways to reduce waste and preserve them over the years. Even if you don’t grow your own, I hope you enjoy these ideas as much as we do! We dubbed 2023 “the year of the beans”. We harvested over 40 pounds that summer! Disclosure: Homestead and Chill is reader-supported. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Choosing Beans to Preserve All of the recipes below are ideal to preserve all types of green beans (sometimes called string beans or snap beans) including French beans, Romano or Italian beans, purple beans, or yellow wax beans. Some of our favorite varieties include Northeaster pole beans, Provider bush beans, and Gold Rush yellow wax beans. For the best quality and results, it’s best to preserve green beans when they’re as fresh as possible. Choose beans that are tender, snappy and crisp, and avoid preserving beans that are limp, tough, stringy, diseased, bruised, or otherwise “imperfect”. You can harvest and store beans in the refrigerator for a few days until you collect enough to preserve, but don’t wait too long! Freezing Fresh Green Beans Let’s start with one of the easiest ways to preserve green beans (and one of my favorites)… freezing them! We freeze small containers of green beans all summer long to later add to soups, chili, or right into the pan with other sautéed veggies. You can freeze fresh green beans raw or blanched first. We’ve tested both methods: both retain good color and flavor, though blanched beans are slightly more crisp at the time of use. If you do blanch them, I highly recommend using a steam blancher instead of boiling water to prevent water-logging. Either way, the key to enjoying frozen green beans (aka, how to prevent them from getting mushy) is to not overcook them later! All they need is very quick flash of heat and they’re ready to go. Please see our full guide on how to freeze fresh green beans. It also includes cooking tips! Canning Green Beans Green beans are a low-acid food so they must be canned using a pressure canner in order to achieve high enough temperatures to kill pathogens and prevent food borne illness. The only way to safely can green beans using water bath canning is if they’re pickled in vinegar – such as our dill pickled green beans recipe (featured below). Pressure canned green beans can be prepared using either the hot-pack or raw-pack method. The hot-pack method involves briefly cooking the green beans in boiling water before packing them into canning jars, which helps to soften them – meaning you can cram more into each jar. The quick pre-cooking also removes some air which can help improve quality and shelf life. On the other hand, the raw pack (aka cold pack) method is the most quick and easy way to can green beans. All you do is fill the jars with raw green beans (washed and trimmed) and then cover with boiling water. See complete instructions and processing times for pressure canning fresh green beans here. Pickled Green Beans (Can or Fridge) Who doesn’t love a crisp tangy pickle? Making pickled dilly beans is one of our favorite ways to preserve green beans. They’re a delicious addition to charcuterie boards, veggie burgers, potato salad, Bloody Marys, or straight out of the jar. Our easy pickled beans recipe is safe for water bath canning, or you can make them as quick refrigerator pickles instead – where you can easily make just a jar or two at a time! Fermented Green Beans If you haven’t jumped on the lacto-fermentation bandwagon yet, it’s time! These easy fermented green beans with optional dill and garlic taste similar to pickled green beans but with a little extra tang… plus a LOT of extra gut-healthy probiotics. The fermentation process effectively lowers the pH to preserve the green beans for up to a year (though they’re usually best quality when enjoyed within a few months). It also introduces millions of beneficial enzymes, antioxidants, and probiotics – a considerable perk over vinegar pickling. Dehydrate Dehydrating green beans is another great way to preserve them. It’s best to dry green beans using a food dehydrator, though it’s possible to dry them in the oven as well. Once dried, you can enjoy them as a healthy crunchy snack, or rehydrate them to add to meals like soups, stews, or casseroles. This article provides good instructions on how to dehydrate green beans. If you plan to eat them plain, try seasoning (tossing) the beans with a little drizzle of olive oil (or coconut oil) and sprinkle of salt, onion powder, garlic powder, and/or nutritional yeast before drying! Image courtesy of Clean Eating Kitchen In Soup (Freeze) Here’s a clever way to preserve green beans: as an ingredient in soup! Choose a bean-forward soup recipe, make a large batch, and then freeze it in portions to enjoy as easy future meals. I love these durable reusable BPA-free quart containers for freezing soup, chili, homemade vegetable broth and more. We often make “the garden sink” type soups (using whatever is ready for harvest in the garden) without following a recipe, but this summer I want to try making this simple-but-delicious looking chunky green bean soup or this cream of green bean soup recipe. Here’s another vegetarian green bean soup recipe that you can make in an Instant-Pot (or on the stovetop). I’d double or triple any of these recipes to really use up and preserve an excess of green beans! NOTE: Make sure to fully and rapidly cool soup before freezing it – such as by using an ice bath, stirring frequently, and/or divvying up a large pot into several smaller (wide and shallow) containers to cool in the fridge without a lid. It’s best for food quality AND food safety to rapidly cool hot foods, and to freeze already-cooled food instead of putting it into the freezer still warm. Freeze Dry Last but not least, you can freeze-dry your green beans to preserve them. If you happen to have a freeze drier at home, that is! Unlike drying them in a dehydrator or oven, freeze drying green beans will create ultra-light and crispy dried green beans that last up to 10 years in storage. Use rehydrated freeze dried green beans in any recipe that calls for fresh beans, or enjoy them dried as a snack. A Harvest Right freeze drier is on our wish list! I hope this list gives you plenty of ideas to preserve your harvest and enjoy green beans in new delicious ways. Have fun experimenting, and let me know if I missed any other clever ideas in the comments below! Don’t miss these related posts: 13 Ways to Preserve Tomatoes: Recipes to Freeze, Can, and More Best Cowboy Candy Recipe (Candied Jalapeños) Canning or Refrigerator  How to Freeze Basil in Ice Cube Trays (Olive Oil or Water) Crunchy Refrigerator Pickles: Quick & Easy Homemade Dill Pickles How to Freeze Zucchini (Summer Squash) Two Ways Did you enjoy this article? Want to hear more? Stay in touch! 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Researchers have been able to turn simulation and observational data from a fusion reactor into an incredible 3D simulation. It provides a view of what it would be like to fly through the plasma, and gives insights into how the reactor behaves at such extreme temperatures.The modeled reactor is a faithful reproduction of EPFL’s variable-configuration tokamak (TCV). A tokamak is a donut-shaped reactor. Plasma at a temperature of over 100 million degrees flows through it and fusion takes place. The team at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (EM+), part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, recreated this 30-year-old machine and provided us with a unique way to look inside.                 “We used a robot to generate ultra-high-precision scans of the reactor interior, which we then compiled to produce a 3D model that replicates its components right down to their texture,” Samy Mannane, a computer scientist at EM+, said in a statement. “We were even able to capture the wear and tear on the graphite tiles lining the reactor walls, which are subject to extremely high temperatures during test runs of the TCV.”Flying through the fusion reactor is cool for everyone, but scientists can use it to actually learn how to improve the design and make the reaction more efficient. The simulation delivers the position of thousands of particles and their effects, shifting about 60 times per second. A special computing setup with five computers and 10 GPUs in total delivered this incredible visualization.  “We were able to build our system thanks to advances in infographics technology,” explained Sarah Kenderdine, the professor who heads EM+. “It would’ve been impossible even just five years ago.”The visualization shows the particles involved in the reaction. Electrons are in red; protons are in green; and blue lines indicate the magnetic field. They swirl around and interact, just as they would in the actual tokamak.“The physics behind the visualization process is extremely complicated,” added Paolo Ricci, director of the Swiss Plasma Center. “Tokamaks have many different moving parts: particles with heterogenous behavior, magnetic fields, waves for heating the plasma, particles injected from the outside, gases, and more. Even physicists have a hard time sorting everything out. The visualization developed by EM+ combines the standard output of simulation programs – basically, tables of numbers – with real-time visualization techniques that the lab uses to create a video-game-like atmosphere.”The visualization is not just a pretty video. It's accurate, it's coherent, and it's realistic.

Front paws forward, stomach on the ground, and most importantly, back legs kicked back. This is the full sploot position. And it is very cute.The sploot. Although the first use of the word is unknown it has gained increasing popularity over the last seven years. Its origins are in DoggoLingo, a cutesy internet language to describe all things dogs. Splooting is a dog specialty. Corgis, in particular, are exceptionally good at it.Splooting raised alarm in the summer of 2022 when squirrels were seen splooting in New York City parks. After that, Collins English Dictionary (coincidentally?) called “splooting” one of the top 10 words of 2022. Together with “permacrisis”, which says a lot about how the post-pandemic world was going. So why were squirrels splooting? To date, no scientific article has reported on the usefulness, efficacy, or prevalence of splooting, but theories abound. The dominant one relates it to heat dispersion. The behavior in squirrels was reported during a heatwave, and the US National Park Service calls summer “sploot season”. Could this be a way in which furry animals keep cool?   IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.Humans predominantly disperse heat by sweating. When the moisture on our skin evaporates it cools us off. We are not alone in the animal kingdom in using this strategy (horses and monkeys do it too). Dogs pant. So do birds. This keeps them cool by evaporation of internal moisture.What if panting is not enough? Or too much water is being lost to evaporation? Time to sploot down on shaded ground, a cool rock, or the kitchen floor. Some furry animals like squirrels have relatively less fur on their abdomen. By lying down and spreading their body out on a cool surface, they might be able to lower their body temperature.Baby Louis (right) was a precocious splooter – as is his sibling.Image credit: Charlie Haigh/IFLScienceThe behavior uses the environment to regulate temperature, in some ways similar to ectotherm animals. Also known as “cold-blooded” these animals rely predominantly on environmental heat sources to control body temperature. Think of a lizard sunbathing and then hiding on cool rocks in the shade.Or maybe it’s just comfortable. It sure looks very relaxing.More research is needed to fully understand the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon.