Snap, Crackle and Pop The first derivative of position with respect to time is velocity, the second is acceleration, and the third is jerk. The fourth is snap, or jounce, while the fifth and sixth are sometimes called crackle and pop. Snap, Crackle and Pop Snap, Crackle and Pop are the cartoon mascots of Kellogg's crisped-rice breakfast cereal Rice Krispies. The gnomic elves characters were originally designed by illustrator Vernon Grant in the early 1930s. The names are an onomatopoeia and were derived from a Rice Krispies radio ad: The first character appeared on the product's packaging in 1933, Grant added two more and
Yellowed rice Yellowed rice Yellowed rice (also yellow rice, Japanese: 黄変米 Ouhenmai) refers to three kinds of rice grains contaminated with different strains of Penicillium fungi-- Yellow rice ("P. citreonigrum"), Citrinum yellow rice ("P. citrinum"), and Islandia yellow rice ("P. islandicum"). These rice grains were first identified in Japan in 1964, after the research was interrupted by World War II. The first of the yellowed rice strains has been linked to shoshin-kakke (heart-attacking paralysis). Citrinum yellow rice and Islandia yellow rice are not known to have caused any adverse effects in human populations. In 1891, Junjiro Sakaki began studying molded rice and