FROM OPEN FLAMES TO SOUS VIDE: The History Of Cooking in Five Courses

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 – 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.
Cost $50. Reservations required. Call 612-624-9050

Join Chef Chris Olson and local experts on an exploration of the evolution of cooking in five delicious courses. With the Bell Museum’s wildlife dioramas as a backdrop, Olson, cook at St. Paul-based Meritage and co-creator of Paired, will take diners on a culinary journey through the ages, from the invention of fire to the scientific approach to food through molecular gastronomy. Biological anthropologist Greg Laden, whose work focuses on diet and human evolution, will join Olson in this deliciously illustrated tale. The event is co-sponsored by the Heavy Table, a Twin Cities-based online magazine devoted to telling the stories of food and drink in the Upper Midwest.

All human utterances are subject to question. All communications are subject to measurement against a standard that may not have been on the mind of the speaker. … There is a place where combative communication is favored, revered, honed and practiced, and imposed by force of will and repetition on those who do not come to the table armed with snark and clothed in oppositional affect.

That place is known … as … the blogosphere.


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I’m sure the iPad is going to be a very successful product. I predict most people who get one will be using it like people now use a Kindle, but with multi media.

But in the mean time, it is fun to make fun of it. And if you want to do that ….

….CLICK HERE….

A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book.

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The Carnival of Evolution is at Skeptic Wonder.

… a science blog post to Scientia Pro Publica!

Let’s go visit the Twin Cities Creation Science Science Fair at Har Mar Mall on Feb 13.
Continue reading Twin Cities Evolution Event →

The following is a subset of the ideas for science fair projects found on this science fair site.

For each project, your assignment is to come up with an experiment that would test the idea.
Continue reading Science Fair Ideas! →

hat tip: buzz feed

Hat tip: Glen

PLoS Blog Post Pick of the Month for January 2010 is as the NN blog Endless Forms, written by Anne-Marie Hodge.

Click here to read this post.

THERE IS A PIK-CHER OF A KITTEH!!!!

Ideas that were once championed by evolutionists are no longer valid, much like the false science behind man-made global warming. Students deserve the truth.

That’s from a guy running for school board in Wisconsin. Pharyngula has the details.

From the amazon web site:

….ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Amazon customers will at that point decide for themselves whether they believe it’s reasonable to pay $14.99 for a bestselling e-book…..

(Source. Hat tip)

For some back ground and discussion, see this earlier post and links among the comments that describe the situation.

Continue reading Amazon “caves” →

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Chris Matthews “forgetting that Obama is black” falls into that same range of racism as “Pretty for a black girl” and the “You’re not like those other black people” claptrap often espoused by the “I’m not racist, but…” crowd. They’re coded as compliments, but the subtext is still an ugly one that frames racism as being the fault of the oppressed…

see: Transcending Race…A History Lesson

The iPad … what is it like?

NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source (hat tip: LIX

The Amazon Kerfuffle