In celebration of World Food Day, I share with you Joi Ito (No, I didn't know) showing Boing Boing TV how to prepare bamboo shoots, from scratch.
More evidence for the Smart Aliens Must Have Taught Us How To Do Stuff theory of human evolution.
Gary at Muck and Mystery usually scores points off me because I am too quick to rush into print and haven’t thought things through. And often he’s correct. But his most recent sally is off the mark. I’m not sure whether he is bashing me or the authors of the paper. Probably a bit of both, but I am...
In my youth I wandered the long plastic hallways where thieves and pimps run free, and one thing always gave grown men and women pause for thought: what did the public make of their offerings? Sophisticated measurements like the Audience Appreciation Index were pored over for signs of impact, whic...
My Berkeley food ruminations took me to Carnival of the Green, and it is only right and proper that I welcome visitors from there. What did I discover of interest?
Adam, waxing lyrical about Australian Organic Blood Oranges. I know I’m spoilt, but the ones from Sicily that will be appearing...
Dr. Robert Gallo, director of the Institute for Human Virology at the University of Maryland and a prominent early researcher in HIV, said it was “a disappointment” not to be honored along with Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi.
I’ll bet he did. The Nobel Committee could have given it to Luc Mon...