what "quiet quitting" really means in a recent-history perspective of "Figuring out how work fits into a life well lived." The Year in Quiet Quitting https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/the-year-in-quiet-quitting
Friday, December 30, 2022
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
For Better Browned Meat and Veggies, Just Add Water
Monday, December 26, 2022
Geology of Snoqualmie pass
A surprisingly interesting discourse on the geology of Snoqualmie Pass, where several unusual geologic events converge.
Plane saved from crashing, despite 2 failures of emergency thrust increase
Easy Trick For The Fluffiest Bread
Ooh, she's good - she explains it so well from the chemistry standpoint. (She was a chemistry major before becoming a chef.)
6:20 a "tangzhong" is used to incorporate more water into the dough. (It binds it into the starch)
Sunday, December 25, 2022
The Art of Design | Es Devlin: Stage Design
27:26 "It's interesting because the word "show" suggests "revelaing" something, it doesn't suggest "finding" something. And because I do what I do every day, I have to make sure the showing of things is in itself the seeking for things."nd because I do what I do every day, I have to make sure the showing of things is in itself the seeking for things.
Uzufly - Google Earth on steroids - helps urban developers get but-in for their plans
(Use the English subtitles)
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Why You Can’t Smell Yourself (and Other Ways Your Senses Lie to You)
5:38 A "just noticeable difference" is the percentage difference in a stimulus, not an absolute difference.
10:48 why our eyes move in small saccadic movements
18:51 what you "sense" is only a fraction of what's out there.
The Best Way To Cook Steak?
Avoiding the "grey band" of overcooked steak beneath the crust.
Pepper, but don't salt it before cooking, which draws out the moisture.
10:46 steak has to rest for 5 minutes, so those internal juices are "in the bite, not on your board."
How lightbulbs are recycled
Extracting mercury from the white powder inside fluorescent bulbs is a complex process of crushing, vacuuming, heating, vacuuming, and condensing.
Cheating With ChatGPT in high school| WSJ
Friday, December 23, 2022
Happy Tibb's Eve
"In jokes and plays four centuries ago, Tib often referred to a girl with loose morals, so there was no Saint Tib and therefore no Tib's Eve. To say something would happen on Tib's Eve was to say it would never happen...The phrase traveled to Newfoundland and Labrador. George Story describes Tibb's Eve as "generally 'neither before nor after Christmas', i.e. never" as an Anglo-Irish term in Newfoundland English dialect." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibb%27s_Eve
Thursday, December 22, 2022
How Manhattan's NYU’s E.R. Favors the Rich
'Major Trustee, Please Prioritize': How NYU's E.R. Favors the Rich https://nyti.ms/3vbMQFi
"Some said medical specialists, often in short supply, were diverted from other cases to attend to mild complaints from high-priority patients."
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Hidden Brain - how to complain productively
A useful episode making the distinction between (@44:04) "expressive complaining" and "instrumental complaining," the latter of which complains to the root source of the problem.
(@23:43) "as [complaining] went up, their feelings of anger also went up and their feelings of hope went down [hence] forgiveness went down, and as hope goes up, forgiveness goes up...we found that the more that employees talked about unfairness, the less likely they were to forgive the supervisor for any unfair actions."
Complain to someone who emphasizes an internal locus of control - you need to fix this problem, not some outside entity.
(@39:48) "when we are complaining, we are increasing the extent to which we see things with an external locus of control. We are essentially saying, the world happens to me and there's nothing I can do about it. When we talk to somebody who reframes [rather than just commiserating], they're helping us give us that internal locus of control, helping us see that we are an agent, that there are ways to move forward to fix the situation."
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