Forget The Fridge: Using Chemistry and Nature to Store Food
Wood potato door? Yes please.
Someone get me a hammer.
The Not So Innocent Spice?
NPR on nutmeg. Who wouldn’t be intrigued by that title? And a fun story to boot.. on colonial trading of spices and turf (Manhattan), nutmeg benders and more.
After some gas bills have left us wondering whether it’d just be more efficient to cook canned beans, some googling yielded several cost comparisons that confirmed some of our ideas taht a crockpot, rather than our gas stove could help us continue using the tastier, healthier, lighter (IE less fossil fuel to transport), cheaper dried beans, without turning on the flame and turning up our gas bill.
Good lord!
Agricultural analyst from JP Morgan states the US will have to turn to importing food from Brazil, possibly Russia. My jaw dropped when she hinted that energy policy is partly to blame, where 40% of corn goes to ethanol production for petrol (though, my understanding is that corn grown for ethanol is not for human consumption. Anyone?).
Who knew? Designing cities before they come, with the help of investors.
(Source: The New York Times)
Behold Reinhold Beiber.
What happens when a wise, crusty theologian grounded in Christian realism meets an enterprising, teen pop idol buttered in Christian goodness? Reinhold Bieber, that’s what.
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
(via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)
Cartoon of the night. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had
(Source: newyorker.com)
I agree completely. They should add a term for overuse of emoticons.
The overuse of exclamation points!
- E-mails and text messages have pushed the exclamation epidemic to a dire point. There’s now a name for it – the very unpleasant slang “bangorrhea.”
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
~Richard Rohr, from Everything BelongsPhoto by Alisa Cooper (distributed with instagram)
