There’s no shortage of racists who don’t care for traditional Chinese medicine because they don’t like the Chinese. And per the insights covered in Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, there are good reasons not to take a middle-aged cis het white guys’ word for it…

There’s no shortage of racists who don’t care for traditional Chinese medicine because they don’t like the Chinese. And per the insights covered in Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, there are good reasons not to take a middle-aged cis het white guys’ word for it…

According to traditional Chinese medicine philosophy, goji berries strengthen Yin, improve eyesight and benefit the liver and kidneys.

I like Matt Levine’s take on that, in Money Stuff: Gambling Is Not a Retirement Plan. And not just because I know a guy who will rent me a hall in which I can, for $5K a pop, explain the plan to the dentists, and help them practice getting slapped upside the head.

If you’re at a restaurant named Jedz Śniadanie Jak Król, do not order the scrambled eggs.

Nothing is indestructible. More specifically, spores are tough as compared to...er... NOT spores, but that just means they have a better chance of persisting despite exposure to things like sunlight and dry air.

If you want to see the guys boasting in Science Nerd about what they’ve done: Barcoded microbial system for high-resolution object provenance (PDF).  It’s from the marketeering end of science communication, as they’re trying to sell the thing, but still.

BRB, trademarking “FREEDOM CALLS”.

I like my women the way I like my coffee: an unconvincing evocation full of chloramines, roasted acorn and chicory, synthetic caffeine, emulsified palm oil, and saccharine.

Washing your hair with brewed coffee to make your hair shiny

“Double Ineluctable Burger, hold the universal solvent.”

Thing is, since primary and secondary school students aren’t particularly skilled in lab work, the variety of chemicals instructors hand them is strictly limited. This is a good thing, because one can kill oneself very quickly with most of the others...

It’s cheaper and easier to use a lot each of a small number of easy-to-synthesize compounds than a little each of a lot of hard-to-synthesize ones.

I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get Scott Adams to watch Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood?

(In fact, I’m pretty sure I could start a food cart with these things. I just need an array of artisanal toppings.)

Indeed. Looking at the other options, there appears to be some curation going on, rather than blind selection of popular images by some metric.

What kind of fuckery is this—and how have over 35 been purchased in the past 42 hours?

The Onion - ‘She Needs A Bible Now, Fuckwad—Yes, It’s For An Epic Clapback!’ Yells Panicked Pelosi Aide Into Phone

All this hard thinking got me hungry now, and I just want some waffles.

At zero dark thirty, all things are snack food.