Weekly Links: August 28th
Food
- Safety of folk jamming techniques
- Kanten about / Kanten recipe
- This week's menu, all packed or leftover'd: whatever you can scrounge up (breakfast); bánh mì (packed lunches); burritos with veggie and black bean arroz rojo, refried black beans, cheeses, salsa verde (dinner), barley-lentil-chickpea-orzo soup with roasted red peppers and sundried tomatoes (dinner), muhammara (snack), cheesecake (cake).
- My birthday cake this year was a Basque Burnt Cheesecake. I subbed in chèvre for part of the cream cheese as an experiment, and added a little bit of lemon zest, vanilla, and almond extract. It's very good, as with the other times I've made it. I omitted the tiny bit of flour this time and I think the texture was better with it. (Cobbled together from two recipes.)
Science
- Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families
- Rain falls at Greenland ice summit for first time on record
- A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers At Full Speed
- Giant bird-eating centipedes exist — and they’re surprisingly important for their ecosystem
- Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds
- Elephas Anthropogenus — the evolution of elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment
- Clark's nutcrackers are very fun to watch, especially if they're working over a pinecone
from Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe (1888-1910), Helen Sharp
Two things that make you feel weird when you read them
- Gaffe: a clown goes through hell
- Essay On What I Think About Most, Anne Carson
The Rainbow, Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy
Some photos I took at Crater Lake
