I've got a holiday recipe from the late 1800s and a recipe for a shaker loaf that's probably older than that, but it would really please me to use a recipe that dates back 2000 years. I've checked the website at The British Museum,…
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> In case you thought "Her" was sci-fi .... For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program http://t.co/9njxjNkisF — John Markoff (@markoff) July 31, 2015 [https://twitter.com/markoff/status/627130786966179848] I'm flabbergasted. I can't deny that it's coming,…
> Michael Bloomberg now owns George Eliot's house. @Rebeccamead_NYC [https://twitter.com/Rebeccamead_NYC] draws lessons for the ex-mayor from "Middlemarch." http://t.co/KXFj9gSVzd — TNY Culture Desk (@CultureDesk) July 29, 2015 [https://twitter.com/CultureDesk/status/626442090663165952] The article at the link contains…
gezeleig, sobremesa, utepils, Schnapsleiche, saudade, тоска, flâneur. From Oxford Dictionaries, seven more words worth knowing that don't have an exact equivalent in English [http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/07/7-foreign-words-you-need-to-know/]. There's some pretty useful words here, words that I'…
http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/125160124816/chocolate-can-benefit-brain-function-and-memory The possible health benefits of chocolate have been celebrated here before. This report estimates how much chocolate you would need to eat each day to realize those benefits: 44 pounds.…
> 1900: How a humble English cobbler stunned the medical world with high-tech prostheses. http://t.co/t4Fi9bqJ5S pic.twitter.com/BFywiBJ1FO [http://t.co/BFywiBJ1FO] — Mashable (@mashable) July 26, 2015 [https://twitter.com/mashable/status/625442131457523712] At least one of the images at the link has appeared here…
> "Beauty surrounds us / but usually we need to be walking / in a garden to know it." -Rumi. Hiking above Tbilisi, #Georgia. Photo/caption by C.B. [https://instagram.com/p/5hlmU9tSki/] A photo posted by Out of Eden (@outofedenwalk) on Jul 24, 2015 at 8:59am PDT…