Sideblog Archive
May 29, 2019
My city got hit by multiple serious tornadoes last night and I realized just how unprepared I was: Aranquis asks about disaster preparedness.
May 28, 2019
"It's worse than you think." In the US Army tweets “How has serving impacted you? thread, bile and syntax offers an insider view of the shocking state of the US Veterans Administration from nearly a decade working with vets who were seeking VA disability benefits.
May 12, 2019
Woo, griphus and Blisterlips had a baby!
May 10, 2019
Hey folks, we're reconsidering the rule against friend-linking in posts, come on over to MetaTalk for more info.
May 9, 2019
Episode 152 of the MetaFilter podcast is go
May 4, 2019
Plant pathologist here: hey, we're working on it! acrasis explains some of the challenges of working with forest tree diseases in Fizz's post on the struggle to fight the catastrophic decimation of the American Chestnut Tree.
May 2, 2019
Fascinating insights from telf on Thai nationalism, Pad Thai, the question of authenticity and "the concept of Thainess" in smoke's interesting post about the history of Pad Thai.
May 1, 2019
mhh5 asks for corn that is starchy and chewy and not particularly sweet, and Lunaloon serves up the (fascinating!) inside line on common corn before "the discovery of the sugary and sugar-enhanced corn genes led to the extra-sweet and super-sweet sweet corns that have replaced the old-style sweet corn"
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