February 2012
25 posts
BAD BAD BATZ: ❖ How Eating Raw Vegetables Is... →
badbatz:
When I tell people that Toxoplasma gondii is important, they look at me like I’m nuts. This happened a lot when we first published our report, Ranking the Risks, last April, where we identified foodborne Toxoplasma as one of the most important pathogens, up there with Salmonella, Listeria,…
Totally instapaper-Ing the Atlantic article. Plus for the record, # 2 was pretty good,...
Grammar Tip of the Day: "catholic" with a small... →
Hmm. Learned something today.
BAD BAD BATZ: ❖ Fritz Haber →
badbatz:
In the most recent episode of Radiolab, The Bad Show, they spent a bit of time talking about Fritz Haber, and it was fascinating. Haber won the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his work, but is infamous for some other reasons. In short: In 1909, Haber developed, along with Carl Bosch, the “Haber…
Ordinary non-genius doing semi-purposeful work.
I think I’m going to put that on my...
“The triumphs of science are due to the substitution of observation and inference...”
– ‘The impact of science on society’ by Bertrand Russell, p.89.
One of my heroes. (via badbatz)
The Upside of Dyslexia - NYTimes.com →
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“I am far luckier than most men, for I have been able since boyhood to make a...”
– Letters of Note: On the Meaning of Life
The more I read H. L. Mencken, the more I like H. L. Mencken.
New Food Safety Infosheet: Outbreak linked to... →
“That which is overdesigned, too highly specific, anticipates outcome; the...”
– William Gibson, All Tommorrow’s Parties (via tshirts-older-than-you)
Daring Fireball Linked List: Five-Year-Old... →
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January 2012
81 posts
“Apple is skating to where the puck is heading*”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Sony, Too
* paraphrasing Gretzky.
“No person or entity shall manufacture or knowingly sell food or any other...”
– An actual piece of actual legislation written by an actual Oklahoma state senator, who was later quoted as saying, “I don’t know if it is happening in Oklahoma, it may be, it may not be. What I am saying is that if it does happen then we are not going to allow it to manufacture here.”
Why?...
'I would rather eat my own diarrhea’ #McDStories... →
Good morning Don, Do you have any info on cooking time and temp requirements for trigina?
I think you’re thinking of
Trichina.
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
