My cat seems pretty solid, but it’s hard to argue with this logic.
In case you missed it last Sunday, you can now listen to Marie-Claire as guest host of last Sunday’s Skeptically Speaking on Science Cinema. Go listen her discuss with veteran film makers how to convey science through movies.
And tune in this Sunday for an episode on scientific controversies, featuring yours truly on the media disaster that was the ENCODE coverage, and David Dobbs talking about, um, vaginas and neuroscience. You don’t want to miss that.
UPDATE: Sorry for the confusion… I’m used to listening to the podcasts, not the live show. David Dobbs is live now (Sunday), and the whole packaged deal will be out in podcast and radio show form on Friday. Tonight’s discussion with Dobbs is fascinating, so definitely tune in!
Ever been called a yeast sniffer? What would your reaction be? Shakespearean indignation?
Blackguard! I challenge you to a duel.
Catholic guilt?
It was only once…in college…everyone else was doing it.
Sinful pride?
Damn straight. I’m growing some premo stuff right now.
For a distinct group of pastry chefs, sinful pride is the correct answer.
According to one of my culinary school instructors, there are two kinds of pastry chefs: plate jockeys and yeast sniffers. Plate jockeys are responsible for composed desserts at restaurants. Yeast sniffers fill bread baskets. There is very little crossover among professionals. I myself have primarily been a professional plate jockey; but I find few things more therapeutic than baking fresh bread. This one is for that little chef in all of us that likes to sniff a little yeast, if only recreationally. Continue reading “Focaccia: Are You a Yeast Sniffer?”
The salamanderfish (Lepidogalaxias salamandroides) is in the family Lepidogalaxiidae all by itself. These unique fish are found in the acidic waters of western Australia. Remarkably, like the lungfish these tiny creatures can survive drought by burrowing in the sand and aestivating.
Watch the video below to see a salamanderfish and hear more about them.
Check out the Tree of Life link to learn more here.
The “Meet the…” posts are a collaboration between The Finch & Pea and Nature Afield to bring Nature’s amazing creatures into your home.
I would like to receive a note like this. Obviously not this one, but something like it, based on entropy and poultry, would be nice:
hi! i hope you are having a great day. here is a drawing of a chicken. she is having a great day, because 8 words ago she didn’t exist (now 14 words). But now she does. So, things seem to be getting better for her. and, if you think about it, somewhere in the universe had to get a little more chaotic to allow enough order to be imposed on the ink to draw that chicken. the whole universe came together to make that chicken drawing. wow! that’s teamwork. considering the effort we all just went to in order to draw you a chicken, I hope you like it. i mean really like it.
hope you have an even better day than this chicken.
PS – her name is Madame Poulle d’Artangin, but she likes to be called Betty.
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