Tendons can be slimy and slippery in raw chicken and they don’t look incredibly appetizing. Tendons can also be chewy and rubbery when cooked. But as unappealing as that sounds, you can still eat them ...

A Stringy Floppy This 35-foot tape wafer held about a thousand bytes of data per foot. The continuous loop of tape often broke, as shown in this photo (arrow points to the end of the snapped tape ...

Stringy stars As yet undiscovered, dark matter is thought to exist because galaxies seem to be held together by the gravitational attraction of much more mass than we can see through telescopes.

But overcooking it results in limp, stringy strands. While you can certainly steam or boil asparagus and get perfect crisp-tender stalks, to get a restaurant-worthy side, you’ve got to roast them.