"University researchers built a satellite that tracks people from low Earth orbit and dispatches a 5 kg payload to within .1 meter of their position, traveling at Mach 25 to anywhere on Earth in under 5 minutes. They suggest it could be used to deliver greeting cards."
Well, just got fired for posting about politics. It sucks man.
My boss is an Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist and he saw me defending Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. He called me a Dengist and told me to clean out my desk.
I have thought about this so much. Good food sometimes feels like it’s been around forever/culturally engrained but so much of it is actually incredibly recent
I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.