March 2012
50 posts
“Ekirch believes many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body’s...”
– The myth of the eight-hour sleep
February 2012
52 posts
from discussion with project people...
What begat what? Dinners inform projects, or do projects lead to dinners?
“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
Stocks Return More With Dem in White House →
While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.
How Many Potomacs in a BerkShare? →
Today most money around the world takes the form of fiat currency: Currency that has no intrinsic value. Fiat money is only valuable because people believe it has value. This raises a question: Couldn’t a group of people get together and agree to accept some differently-decorated pieces of paper as money? Yes, actually, they could, and communities around the US have created their own local,...
Am I a Pedant?
Morgan Evans asks, “But that begs the question, what is funny?”
Except, that it doesn’t beg the question. As our dear friend the all-wise and powerful Jiminy Wales says:
Begging the question (or petitio principii, “assuming the initial point”) is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.
I...
So Much Food... →
In addition to cooking up a tofu scramble this morning we’re going to make Daikon Stew later today!
hackinghotknives:
I had a bunch of extra ingredients so I made a Sunday Scramble. Not exactly a Hot Knives recipe, but since they are the reason I have most of this food in my kitchen I feel like they bear some responsibility.
Blasphunny
If Jesus was a confirmed bachelor then was Talpiot Tomb his man cave?
“Famous lifelong bachelors from history include: Plato, Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci,...”
– Celebrity bachelors from Wikipedia
I FIGURED OUT THE BISCUITS! →
hackinghotknives:
Okay, so I didn’t really “figure it out” so much as ask my co-worker, who as one half of the Salt & Fat blog knows a thing or two about biscuits (they are both salty and fatty).
Here is the same explanation but about Pie Crust:
My one piece of advice when you are ready to prepare: stay cool,…
“In 1978 when the film premiered, Werner Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe,...”
– Errol Morris
Third Wave Coffee →
Jonathan Gold defined the third wave of coffee:
The first wave of American coffee culture was probably the 19th-century surge that put Folgers on every table, and the second was the proliferation, starting in the 1960s at Peet’s and moving smartly through the Starbucks grande decaf latte, of espresso drinks and regionally labeled coffee. We are now in the third wave of coffee...
Man Watches
How do you do Jude
Just change your style depending on your mood: the past you were a commerce lady, now you just want to wear jeans and a top and tomorrow you require to dress up for an vital banquet.
We can take all your fears away by guaranteeing you that you can wear this watch for existence and it will still look like you just bought it the recent...
“Unless we start weaning ourselves off these defunct models, we will fail to...”
– Clive Thompson: Retro design is crippling innovation
“The notion that 3-D printing will on any reasonable time scale become a...”
– Is 3D printing the new virtual reality?