America’s Other Drug Problem
Marshall Allen reports in ProPublica: Every week in Des Moines, Iowa, the employees of a small nonprofit collect bins of unexpired prescription drugs tossed out by nursing homes after residents died,...
View ArticleSalt: The single most important ingredient
Samin Nosrat writes in the NY Times: Growing up, I thought salt belonged in a shaker at the table, and nowhere else. I never added it to food, or saw Maman add it. When my aunt Ziba sprinkled it onto...
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How the South betrays its citizens
Kevin Drum has a good post. Here’s one of the charts from the post:
View ArticleThe Noakes trial exposes the power and dishonesty of business-funded research
I blogged yesterday links to posts about the Noakes trial in South Africa: he tweeted a recommendation for weaning a baby onto a low-carb high-fat diet (e.g., not focused on cereals) and as a result...
View ArticleA party that protects its ignorance: LA Times “GOP shuts out doctors,...
The GOP is willfully ignorant, and Noam Levey’s article in the LA Times provides an excellent example. President Trump and House Republicans, in their rush to resuscitate a bill rolling back the...
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The iKon 102: Not a universal razor, but absolutely terrific in the right...
At long last I think I’ve found the answer to why some report the iKon 102 clogs (for them). I was mystified by the complaints I read, since I have never experienced any clogging at all. I thought of...
View ArticleAre Trump voters ruining America for all of us?
Tom Nichols writes in USA Today: President Trump’s record in his first 100 days, by any standard of presidential first terms, is one of failure. Aside from the successful nomination of the eminently...
View ArticleJennifer Rubin: Republicans are kidding themselves about Trump’s foreign policy
In the Washington Post: Human nature, I suppose, compels us to adapt to and try to make sense out of chaotic, even dangerous situations. We want things to be less than horrible, so the inclination to...
View ArticleMan Trump Named to Fix Mortgage Markets Figured in Infamous Financial Crisis...
Matt Taibbi writes in Rolling Stone: In early 2007, a group of Morgan Stanley bankers bundled a group of subprime mortgage instruments into a package they hoped to sell to investors. The only problem...
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Rooney Finest Style 2, Meißner Tremonia Black Beer No. 1, and the iKon X3 (on...
I thought I’d try back-to-back shaves with the iKon 102 (yesterday) and the iKon X3 (today). So I used another Meißner Tremonia soap. Yesterday was Strong ‘n Scottish, today is Black Beer No. 1. The...
View Article100 Days, 100 Horrors
Nancy LeTourneau writes in the Washington Monthly: As we approach Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, we are seeing competing narratives. The president and his fan base in the right wing media are...
View ArticleA Cosmic-Ray Hunter Takes to the Sky
NASA successfully launched its football-stadium-sized, heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka, New Zealand, at 10:50 a.m. Tuesday, April 25 (6:50 p.m. April 24 in U.S. Eastern Time), on a...
View ArticleThe Milky Way from the cockpit of a plane making a night flight
Via Jason Kottke, who writes: Sales Wick is a pilot for SWISS and while working an overnight flight from Zurich to Sao Paulo, he filmed the first segment of the flight from basically the dashboard of...
View ArticleGluing polypropylene: Superglue by itself doesn’t work, but this does
Kevin Drum has a good post that includes a 1-minute video on what works.
View ArticleWell worth watching: The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
That was part 1. Now watch part 2:
View ArticleNow Trump (or Bannon) is trolling us: Former Director of Anti-Immigration...
Marcelo Rochabrun and Jessica Huseman report in ProPublica: A former director of an anti-immigration group, Julie Kirchner, is expected to be named as ombudsman to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
View ArticleIt took Toshiba 70 years to reach its peak—and just a decade to fall into an...
Josh Horwitz has a fascinating article on Toshiba’s rise and fall. From the article: A 334-page report by an investigation committee set up by Toshiba stated that Nishida at times encouraged...
View ArticleScientists in many disciplines see apocalypse, soon
Phil Torres writes in Salon: While apocalyptic beliefs about the end of the world have, historically, been the subject of religious speculation, they are increasingly common among some of the leading...
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Turkey Thighs with Bacon, Tomatoes, and Porcini
This started out as a Mark Bittman recipe, but I made a fair number of changes. It is really tasty: Step 1: Take turkey thighs out of the fridge for 1-2 hours before you start so they can come to room...
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