Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
big things happening at home.
our cat is pregnant and the whole family is certain that our neighbour's cat got her pregnant.
Mom thinks that we should give the neighbour half of how many ever kittens she births, dad thinks that we should ask said neighbour to pay child support
Paul Farmer has died, at age 62. In 2000, Tracy Kidder wrote about Farmer’s mission to heal the world: “The fact that the poor are dying of illnesses for which effective treatments exist is, like many global facts of life, unacceptable to Farmer.”
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Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked
Starting this thread for kitchen/food science hacks for inexperienced/beginner cooks to document verified, tacit wisdom from experienced folks. Will update it once or twice a week.
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Long before there was a United States of America, there was British America, a subset of which was called the Thirteen Colonies, an assortment of European settlements on the Atlantic coast, the precursor to what we know today as the USA.
A lively protest by students, faculty and others in New York City at the Indian Consulate in solidarity with JNU students and faculty in India facing unprecedented violence #nystandswithjnu#JNUViolence . Felt good to be a part of this solidarity action!! @SASIinNYC
Dude you need to get yourself a cast iron skillet. its the exact same as other pans but way heavier and more expensive and you can't ever clean it for some reason
Costco is a fascinating business.
You know all those groceries you buy?
Yeah, they basically sell those at breakeven and then make all of their profit from the $60 annual membership fees.
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Turns out that the recipe that my mother uses for her Sambar powder came from her grandmother's grandmother. You can use the Google spreadsheet to calculate proportions for any weight https://t.co/51IXi5ibbK