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Nutshell. A walnut kernel and its shell. A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut. Most nutshells are inedible and are removed before eating the nut meat inside. It covers and protects the kernel, which may be edible.
"Nutshell" is a song by Alice in Chains that originally appeared on the band's 1994 extended play Jar of Flies. The band played it on MTV Unplugged in 1996, and this rendition of the song was included on the compilation album Music Bank (1999), as well as The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). [ 1 ]
The Red Bedroom Diorama. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are a series of twenty intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas created by Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962), a pioneer in forensic science. [ 1][ 2] Glessner Lee used her inheritance to establish a department of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1936, and ...
Kurzgesagt. Kurzgesagt ( / ˌkʊərtsɡəˈzɑːkt /; German for "In a nutshell," "in short," or literally "shortly said"; German pronunciation: [ˈkʊʁt͡sɡəˌzaːkt]) is a German animation and design studio founded by Philipp Dettmer. The studio is best known for its YouTube channel, which focuses on minimalistic animated educational ...
The shell game (also known as thimblerig, three shells and a pea, the old army game) is often portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud. [ 1] In confidence trick slang, this swindle is referred to as a short-con because it is quick and easy to ...
A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible. In general usage and in a culinary sense, many dry seeds are called nuts. In a botanical context, "nut" implies that the shell does not open to release the seed ( indehiscent ). [ 1]
The Universe in a Nutshell is a 2001 book about theoretical physics by Stephen Hawking. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public concerning developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time was published in 1988.
Nut graph. In article structure for journalism, the nut graph or nut graf (short for " nutshell paragraph ") is a paragraph that explains the context of the story "in a nutshell". [ 1][ 2] The term can be spelled many different ways. In many news stories, the essential facts of a story are included in the lede, the first sentence or two of a story.