The Rubix Cubewich contains cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar.
From Insane Sandwich Fun, but retitled by Make.
The Rubix Cubewich contains cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar.
From Insane Sandwich Fun, but retitled by Make.
The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna.
By trying to help dolphins, groups like Greenpeace caused one of the worst marine ecological disasters of all time.
This post took 2nd place in the Three Quarks Daily 2009 Prize in Science, with the comment
It’s a fine example of one of what I consider to be one of the most important lessons of science: that emotional moralization can lead to outcomes that are morally worse than those based on hard-headed analyses.
How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans,
A fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deer
Tonight I noticed a pattern in my recent eating.
| Dinner Today (Monday): | Spaghetti again with the leftover sauce from Saturday |
| Snack Yesterday (Sunday): | A couple bites of spicy Italian salami |
| Dinner Saturday: | Spaghetti with a red sauce including pork sausage |
| Dinner Friday: | Pork and vegetable pot stickers. |
Let’s make this official: I am going to try to eat some pork product (pork, bacon, ham, sausage) every day until this media circus about swine H1N1 flu fades away.
This morning I heard a radio announcement about local chefs doing charity events. I immediately thought of another interpretation of the benefiting organization’s name.
I bought a large coffee before heading up to my desk this morning. I never buy a donut or other sweet to go with it, but one such object puzzles me: The Bismarck. How did something soft, sweet, and gooey get named after the Iron Chancellor? None of those adjectives could be applied to him.
Appparently I am not alone in finding this odd.