@20:15, 11/22/17

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Food

Anti-Anxiety Cooking

By SAM SIFTON | Nov 22nd 2017

The big feast is tomorrow, so take it easy tonight and focus on the last-minute details.

There is never leftover lobster.
I do not have access to culls.

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Health

Abnormal Proteins Discovered in Skin of Patients With Rare Brain Disease

By DENISE GRADY | Nov 22nd 2017

Finding so-called prions in skin samples may lead to early diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But the discovery also hints at possible risks from surgery.

An ugly disease with no known vector.

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T Magazine

The Sweet Rewards of Bitter Food

By HANNAH GOLDFIELD | Nov 22nd 2017

Sugar, spice, salt, fat: All are easy to love. So what explains our current craze for bad tastes?

"You got to suffer if you want to sing the blues."

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Health

Thanks a Lot! New Reasons Not to Eat Cookie Dough

By JAN HOFFMAN | Nov 22nd 2017

A new study confirms that uncooked flour can make people dangerously ill. Turns out E. coli bacteria can thrive in the dry, powdery host.

I am curious as to what an historical view would tell us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strains_of_Escherichia_coli

This article is fluff.

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Well

Dog Owners Live Longer

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR | Nov 22nd 2017

Owning a dog is linked to a reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and death, a Swedish study found.

"A Dog and His Boy"

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?71888

selection bias

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Style

Because Sometimes You Don’t Want to Get Off the Couch

By HAYLEY PHELAN | Nov 22nd 2017

Wintertime luxuries for the seasoned lounger.

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

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Crosswords & Games

Variety: Split Decisions

By SAM EZERSKY | Nov 18th 2017

Fred Piscop’s latest puzzle is full of interesting letter patterns.

"However, when the split is shorter, as with ?IX/?AY, it is important to keep all possibilities open where appropriate. Sure, S works well, but so do M, N, F and perhaps P. When ARSENAL/ARSENIC in the top-left corner becomes obvious, then the N will be filled in correctly, but until then, it’s best to refrain from guessing without some sort of logic behind it."

I will go in to "work".

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Crosswords & Games

Dividing Line

By DEB AMLEN | Nov 22nd 2017

Timothy Polin gives us direction on how to solve his puzzle.

It is conservative to stay where you are.

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Crosswords & Games

Counterproductive

By DEB AMLEN | Nov 18th 2017

Tom McCoy counts on us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVGFfj7POA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFuCYNx-1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrsYD46W1U0

"Leave nothing behind you but the bare scorched earth."

Wrong war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher

Bonfire     

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_meal#History

Different campaign:

https://www.franciscodegoya.net/

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Science

Young Again: How One Cell Turns Back Time

By CARL ZIMMER | Nov 22nd 2017

With every birth, cells begin anew. Scientists have found a biological mechanism underpinning the process in worms, which one day may be harnessed to restore our own damaged cells.

Science is not engineering.


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