The Solar System is like a box of chocolates — at least it is at Japan’s Rihga Royal Hotels, where they offer these beauties by chocolatier L’éclat. Gimme.
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See outer space in 1960’s Kodachrome glory in the newly launched archives of Gemini and Mercury mission photos. The stop-motion video compilations are worth checking out, too.
Instagram in space! :)
A Voice as Big as the Sea | NYT Sunday Book Review (via kateoplis)
Burnett suggests that our long tradition of “whale ignorance” helps us understand that “it is very hard to say anything that is actually right about anything at all.”
Paul Greenberg, the author of this review, wrote Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, a book I’ve long been meaning to read. The wonderful gentlemen who introduced me to Fair Food and Dr. Oran Hesterman recommended it.
Another recent experiment: Gewürztraminer gelee. Basically superclassy jello shots.
Led by the child who simply knew (via notentirely)
The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care.
It never ceases to astound me how different identical twins — two people indistinguishable by their DNA — can be so different. Just goes to show how much we have to learn.
Scientists Invent the World’s Lightest Metal: “The new metal consists of 99.99 percent air. The other 0.01 percent is made up of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness of 100 nanometers. It’s so light that it can sit ON TOP OF THE FLUFF OF A DANDELION.”
I wondered how this would be used so I did some googling and learned that it “could be used for battery electrodes, catalyst supports, and acoustic, vibration or shock energy damping.” Eh. Not that interesting. I prefer to imagine it sitting atop a field of dandelions.
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I thought things were serious when the massive restaurant-caliber VacMaster appeared in our dining room (‘cause it sure as hell doesn’t fit in our kitchen). But ever since Modernist Cuisine and The Fat Duck Cookbook moved in, things have gotten extra intense around here.
(No complaints, of course … he’s got some crazy foie gras preparation up his sleeve for Christmas dinner.)
Birth control pills affect memory
My official excuse, now and forever.
Women who use contraceptives like birth control pills experience memory changes, according to new UC Irvine research. Their ability to remember the gist of an emotional event improves, while women not using the contraceptives better retain details.
(Source: azspot)
Pair this with the beating-heart pillow and you’ve got one wild night with a far-away lovah.
“Roly Poly, designed by the Design Incubation Centre at the National University of Singapore, are a pair of egg-like objects that mirror each other’s movements, even when physically separated.
Two people thus can sense each other’s presence despite distances across the world: a tap of one half will create a simultaneous reaction in the other.”
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Baby's Palate And Food Memories Shaped Before Birth
My kids are going to come out of the womb loving everything.
How fun will it be to “introduce” them to foods in utero? And now today, lil’ peanut, we’re learning about the flavors of Western China….
“Things like vanilla, carrot, garlic, anise, mint — these are some of the flavors that have been shown to be transmitted to amniotic fluid or mother’s milk,” says Julie Mennella, who studies taste in infants at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. In fact, Mennella says there isn’t a single flavor they have found that doesn’t show up in utero.
“Each individual baby is having their own unique experience, it’s changing from hour to hour, from day to day, from month to month,” says Mennella. “As a stimulus it’s providing so much information to that baby about who they are as a family and what are the foods their family enjoys and appreciates.”
The flavor of cigarettes can be passed through amniotic fluid, too. So perhaps that’s one reason why children of people who smoke might be more likely to pick up the habit….
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