Fans of the Netflix series, including teenagers and the actress Beth Behrs, are flocking to the game because ?women can be rock stars? in chess.
Good news for chess
Category Archives: food and drink
Expertise? We don’t stinking expertise!
“Since the move, the agency has lost decades of expertise on a wide range of subjects, from climate change to antibiotic resistance, from rural economies to organic farming, leaving numerous projects in limbo and severely bottlenecking new research. Today, conversations between The Counter and more than 20 former and current ERS employees reveal that staff morale has plummeted. Many also assert that the agency is failing to live up to its mission due to severe understaffing and lack of stable leadership.”
That’s OK. All they ever did was kill trees by publishing reports.
As a New Englander born in Maine, this is scary
I usually don’t post things a month and a half old but Yikes!
The fishery is buffeted by the climate crisis and other problems but the coronavirus pandemic has opened a new front
Blessed are the Cheesemakers
When you talk with aficionados, it usually doesn?t take long for the conversation to veer away from curds, whey, and mold, and toward matters of life and death.
I see a Nobel Prize here
Or at least an IgNobel.
The world?s best hot dog eaters could outeat a grizzly bear or a coyote, but would fall far behind a wolf or a Burmese python, a new study finds.
Dining out in the wake of covid-19
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Industry leaders predict what we'll see in a post-coronavirus dining landscape.
Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die
Or, in the case of the Pompeians, today, before the meal is over.
The chef Heston Blumenthal?s latest exploration of historical appetites is a menu inspired by the final meals prepared in the doomed Roman city.
Vegans turning into ethical butchers
Admirable but I suspect that there’s a limit to what they can achieve as long as Big Meat has a price advantage. But subsidizing them or taxing their competitors is probably justifiable on Pigovian grounds.
How several former vegans and vegetarians across the country came to see meat as their calling.
Good luck on avoiding processed foods
NEW YORK (AP) ? Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there's something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us...
Treasonable noticing of seditious facts
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Many routinely skip meals and take ?poverty naps? because they cannot afford groceries. Campus food pantries are helping, but are they enough?