Tuesday, May 23, 2017

@16:36, 5/22/17

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1
Food

A New Book Celebrates America’s Brunch Drink

Ellen Brown’s “Bloody Mary Book” details the history of this classic cocktail and includes inventive recipes.

I will not indulge in Bloody Maries.
Use Sacrimento brand tomato juice.

2
Food

Sharing Moroccan Shakshuka With Mourad Lahlou

The San Francisco chef believes in the powerful connection of eating from the same pot, no plates required.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018765-moroccan-shakshuka

If you wish.

3
Fashion & Style

Viveca Gruen and Sisay Befekadu: A Sister Lives On in a Match She Made

Sisay Befekadu met Viveca Gruen at the bedside of her ailing sister, whose matchmaking dream was eventually fulfilled.

Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

4
Opinion

Pregnant on the Subway: May I Have a Seat?

A reader reveals how she finagled a seat, and another how she declined an offer of one.

Enough New Yorkers were taught manners.

5
Health

Nearly 20 Million Have Gained Health Insurance Since 2010

The number of Americans without health insurance has fallen drastically since passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Obama care is needed.

6
Science

In ‘Enormous Success,’ Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence

The genes account for just a tiny fraction of the variation in test scores, experts say. Many are yet to be found, and environmental factors are also greatly important.

The piece reads as bad science.
This is mostly speculation based on early work.
We are far from analytic models of the brain and the mind.
Most of what passes for intelligence exists in the mind.
The mind is the "software" model of existence.

7  
Opinion

Why the Future Is Always on Your Mind

What best distinguishes human beings from other animals is our foresight, as scientists are just beginning to recognize.

Some think further ahead than others.

8
U.S.

G.O.P. Highlights Alternate Legislative Universe as Trump’s Woes Pile Up

Republicans have struggled to portray themselves as toiling away at the nation’s business even as their legislative agenda moves deeper into the abyss.

Doing nothing is a good thing for this congress.

9
U.S.

House Inquiry Turns Attention to Trump Campaign Worker With Russia Ties

Michael Caputo, who was a communications adviser during the presidential race, has been asked to sit for an interview and to provide documents about his connections to the Kremlin.

There will be a report.
I am happy to think the worst of Trump.

10
Opinion

Blood in the Water

It doesn’t seem possible that Mike Pence knew nothing.

Ryan must also go.





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1
Food

At Olmsted, a Living Memory of a Farm-to-Table Meal

Customers at this Brooklyn restaurant can take home a plant from the restaurant’s garden.

I refuse to have pet annuals.

2
Food

Make It Delicious

Cook with intent this week, for your loved ones or even just for yourself.

Yes

3
Opinion

Civility, on Campus and Beyond

Readers discuss the problem from the viewpoint of professor and student.

Professors must insist on respect for the material they are teaching and for themselves.

The process is not clear to me.

4
Job Market

The Zen of Dying

A nurse at the Zen Hospice Project tries to offer a higher level of quality and attention, helping dying people live fully right up to the end.

Hospice does a good job.

5
Magazine

Behind the Cover: 5.21.17

For this issue, the doctor is in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/what-animals-taught-me-about-being-human.html

"For some weeks, I’ve been worried about the health of family and friends. Today I’ve stared at a computer screen for hours. My eyes hurt. My heart does, too. Feeling the need for air, I sit on the step of my open back door and see a rook, a sociable species of European crow, flying low toward my house through gray evening air. Straightaway I use the trick I learned as a child, and all my difficult emotions lessen as I imagine how the press of cooling air might feel against its wings. But my deepest relief doesn’t come from imagining I can feel what the rook feels, know what the rook knows — instead, it’s slow delight in recognizing that I cannot. These days I take emotional solace from understanding that animals are not like me, that their lives are not about us at all. The house it’s flying over has meaning for both of us. To me, it is home. To a rook? A way point on a journey, a collection of tiles and slopes, useful as a perch or a thing to drop walnuts on in autumn to make them shatter and let it winkle out the flesh inside."

6
Arts

A Defense of ‘Transracial’ Identity Roils Philosophy World

A journal article comparing transracial and transgender identities has touched off an online firestorm and opened up a schism in feminist philosophy.

The critics need to write their own articles.

No eraser works on published words.
Time does not run backwards.

7
Food

Beloved Burrata Finds a Springtime Match


Yes

8
U.S.

House Inquiry Turns Attention to Trump Campaign Worker With Russia Ties

Michael Caputo, who was a communications adviser during the presidential race, has been asked to sit for an interview and to provide documents about his connections to the Kremlin.

Learn the facts.

9
Science

Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm Survives Trip in Space

Although tests did find slightly increased DNA damage, compared with freeze-dried earth sperm, the space version did the job when it came to fertilizing eggs.

Yes.

10
U.S.

Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’

President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers about why they do it.

The community has no fixed address.
Cell phones help.

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