Cupcakes out. Waffles in.
Note: Waffle stand in Austin, TX. Was a Cupcake stand last summer, and never open. Reports are that Cupcakes have a storefront now, which might be delicious, though no longer cutting edge.
Month: June 2009
Domestic robots with a taste for flesh – New Scientist
Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. (via The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine)
Simon Critchley – How to Make It in the Afterlife – NYTimes
Zizek: WILL THE CAT ABOVE THE PRECIPICE FALL DOWN? (It’s about Iran)
(via messianictime)
Opposed as they are, all these versions read the Iranian protests along the axis of Islamic hardliners versus pro-Western liberal reformists, which is why they find it so difficult to locate Mousavi: is he a Western-backed reformer who wants more personal freedom and market economy, or a member of the cleric establishment whose eventual victory would not affect in any serious way the nature of the regime? Such extreme oscillations demonstrate that they all miss the true nature of the protests.
Zizek: WILL THE CAT ABOVE THE PRECIPICE FALL DOWN? (It’s about Iran)
mark sanford gets all literary in talking about his special lady friend
Why do humans cook? Though it’s all a chimp needs, raw food simply does not deliver the calories needed for a human to survive and reproduce, Wrangham writes. This led him to the fundamental fact that heating food increases its calories and that humans evolved eating cooked food—Catching Fire’s ultimate claim.
Wrangham’s book takes the reader through a number of profound ruminations on the physiological effects of cooking (he says it explains our small mouths and guts and big brains) and then moves on to its thought-provoking cultural consequences (he says cooking led to marriage)
Notes on Sub-Sub-Librarians, Part I
I’ve just discovered there’s a small medical literature on deaths by Russian roulette … (#)
a form of neurotoxic honey, genuinely known as “mad honey”, created by bees taking nectar from the beautiful rhododendron ponticum flower (via Mind Hacks: Mad honey)
