Don’t think of pink elephants, globe imaging edition
“My complete list of blurred sites in both Israel and Turkey totals over 300 distinct buildings, airfields, ports, bunkers, storage sites, bases, barracks, nuclear facilities, and random buildings—prompting several intriguing points of consideration”
Diamond cuts diamond for the FT
“We are both Bostonians, I begin. He gets in a question first: what neighbourhood? I confess to Beacon Hill, the brick and cobblestone haunt of the city’s Wasps. Diamond grew up in a middle-class family in the suburbs, one of nine siblings. A headline passes through my mind: downwardly mobile journalist interviews self-made mogul. Diamond spent much of his career as an outsider — striver among the privileged, a bond trader among investment bankers, and an American among Brits.”
“But economic developers and municipalities in rural America aren’t stupid, and don’t believe that they can compete with supercities to draw in this development. A focus on single industries, such as mining in the upper midwestern United States, already destroyed many rural economies (and their environments) in the 20th century. Progressive rural communities that are thinking about these problems don’t see tech as a sole savior.”
J. Kenji and his confit buffalo wings
“Right off the bat, it was clear that every sample 2 through 10 was significantly crisper than the control group (1) However, the wings that had their initial frying at a higher temperature (batches 2 through 4) ended up the driest of the lot. This told me two things: First, that the double fry was having some sort of effect on the crisping of the skin and secondly, the theory that allowing the wings to cool down in between fries in order to prevent excess moisture loss was bunk.”