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Why Is a ‘Pepper’ Different From ‘Pepper’? Blame Christopher Columbus-- More things to blame Columbus for: the linguistic ambiguity of the word 'pepper'.
viaumadoshi, The Plant Breeder Who Minted a New World of Flavor is a sweet little history of a man who hybridized dozens of new varietals of mint.
How Architects Are Designing Buildings With Birds in Mind--95% reduction in bird mortality, damn!
Is Japan losing its umami? is a very clickbaity title for a genuinely really sad piece about heritage methods of food production in danger of being lost.
Neat: Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays (not something he plagiarized, but something he almost certainly read and was influenced by.)
Two cool small articles with lots of pictures of China's "bicycle graveyards"--I have never seen so many bikes in one place in my life, holy crap. First link, second link. I'm used to the concept of airplane boneyards, because I grew up in Tucson, but this is so much more dense and disarranged and plants growing through and--just wow.
Why Is a ‘Pepper’ Different From ‘Pepper’? Blame Christopher Columbus-- More things to blame Columbus for: the linguistic ambiguity of the word 'pepper'.
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umadoshi, The Plant Breeder Who Minted a New World of Flavor is a sweet little history of a man who hybridized dozens of new varietals of mint.How Architects Are Designing Buildings With Birds in Mind--95% reduction in bird mortality, damn!
Is Japan losing its umami? is a very clickbaity title for a genuinely really sad piece about heritage methods of food production in danger of being lost.
Neat: Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays (not something he plagiarized, but something he almost certainly read and was influenced by.)
Two cool small articles with lots of pictures of China's "bicycle graveyards"--I have never seen so many bikes in one place in my life, holy crap. First link, second link. I'm used to the concept of airplane boneyards, because I grew up in Tucson, but this is so much more dense and disarranged and plants growing through and--just wow.
