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Ethnic Food In & Around Washington D.C.
Tyler Cowen is a man of many talents with a new book out. It is called Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. Along with pithily-named books, Tyler is well know for his guide to ethnic dining around the D.C. area.
Dolphins De-bone, De-ink & Devour
Scientists have observed bottlenose dolphins preparing cuttlefish for consumption. Considering they can’t wield a knife or cleaver, dolphins make impressive butchers. Researchers in Australia recently observed a bottlenose performing a precise series of manoeuvres to kill, gut and bone a cuttlefish. The six-step procedure gets rid of the invertebrate’s unappetising ink and hard-to-swallow cuttlebone. (Via [...]
Eggheads and Potatoes
Tim O’Reilly’s blog is a constant source of thoughtful posts and interesting tech & evolving culture. His recent post on Wendell Berry really hit home for me, because here is a tech luminary writing about an English teacher, poet and agrarian philosopher whose work I discovered in college, and rediscovered during my “back to the [...]
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