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What To Wear When Raising a Zebra
I, your local frumpy yeast geneticist have come here to tell you this: THERE IS NEVER A SHORTAGE OF YEAST.
Slap Happy: The Slap Bracelet Phenomenon of 1990
The history of picture-in-picture technology, an idea that seems a lot less impressive now than it did in the 1980s, and an era of forgotten set-top devices.
The long and complicated history of why there are 360 degrees in a circle.
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In Negotiations, Givers Are Smarter Than Takers
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The Assimilationist, or: On the unexpected cost of passing as a trans woman
In Egypt, transgender activist fights battle on many fronts
The unseen American survivors of thalidomide want to be heard
Ramona, Elsa, and teaching my daughter about the hard choices in the years to come.
Two Women of the African Slave Resistance
The Surprising — And Surprisingly Contentious — History of Purell
Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum closed by virus
The criminalization of the American midwife
Poor people experience greater financial hardship in areas where income inequality is greatest
The Fight to Curb a Health Scourge in India: Noise Pollution
The Man Who Won’t Let the World Forget the Firebombing of Tokyo
1968 - the year that haunts hundreds of women
Solitary confinement, even for a few days, heightens post-incarceration death risk
Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.
The unwelcome revival of ‘race science’
What To Wear When Raising a Zebra
I, your local frumpy yeast geneticist have come here to tell you this: THERE IS NEVER A SHORTAGE OF YEAST.
Slap Happy: The Slap Bracelet Phenomenon of 1990
The history of picture-in-picture technology, an idea that seems a lot less impressive now than it did in the 1980s, and an era of forgotten set-top devices.
The long and complicated history of why there are 360 degrees in a circle.
We Have All the Cute Animal Posts (well, they have academic posts about cute animals)
In Negotiations, Givers Are Smarter Than Takers
Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement
Physicists Are Studying Mysterious ‘Bubbles of Nothing’ That Eat Spacetime
How the Midwest became a symbol of what’s ordinary, wholesome and practical — and why this idea endures.
Why We Buy Weird Things in Times of Crisis
Why we can’t build small homes anymore
The Assimilationist, or: On the unexpected cost of passing as a trans woman
In Egypt, transgender activist fights battle on many fronts
The unseen American survivors of thalidomide want to be heard
Ramona, Elsa, and teaching my daughter about the hard choices in the years to come.
Two Women of the African Slave Resistance
The Surprising — And Surprisingly Contentious — History of Purell
Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum closed by virus
The criminalization of the American midwife
Poor people experience greater financial hardship in areas where income inequality is greatest
The Fight to Curb a Health Scourge in India: Noise Pollution
The Man Who Won’t Let the World Forget the Firebombing of Tokyo
1968 - the year that haunts hundreds of women
Solitary confinement, even for a few days, heightens post-incarceration death risk
Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.
The unwelcome revival of ‘race science’
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Date: 2020-03-31 08:16 am (UTC)They're lying. I, your local frumpy grocery shopper have come here to tell you this: we had to spend damn-near $7 last week on the jar once we saw they were out of the packets. No shortages my gloves.
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Date: 2020-03-31 08:23 am (UTC)That's what the twitter thread is about - utilizing wild yeasts.
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Date: 2020-03-31 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-31 08:26 am (UTC)But now I know, as an adult, that the dough leavens itself if you just let it do its work. That's why Jews eat matzo on Passover, because in Exodus they baked the dough before the wild yeasts had time to colonize the dough and do their work.
That's the principle behind sourdough starters as well - you harvest the wild yeasts and use those to leaven your bread. (And that's how people make prison hooch and all as well. If you gather enough fruit together, it'll ferment. You can't stop that from happening, in fact! You don't need to purchase brewer's yeast.)
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Date: 2020-03-31 08:44 am (UTC)Yeah, because they were hauling ass - nothing like "being driven out of Egypt" to motivate one to just make some flatbread (though now that I refresh my memory, it looks like the whole story might be a myth).
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Date: 2020-03-31 03:53 pm (UTC)However, something can be spiritually meaningful without having literally happened in the real world.
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