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SHINE MUSCAT GRAPE
Shine muscat grape are a special cultivar of grapes that was developed in Japan in 1988, but is still a rather exclusive type of grape that most people have never tasted. And the only reason why I write about it here today is because I’ve just tasted it for the first time—and it’s a remarkably…
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BAKING BREAD IN SAND AND ASHES: TAGUELLA OF THE TUAREG
The Tuareg have a special way of baking bread, which is called taguella. It’s a simple flat bread baked in the embers of a fire, basically the hot sand and ashes of a little bonfire. It’s typically made of wheat, millet, or semolina I love this way of making bread. It’s very efficient if you…
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CORAL VINE / MEXICAN CREEPER
I was recently sitting at a coffee shop and really loved the vines growing that provided shade. Turns out they’re called Coral Vines, Mexican Creepers, or Antigonon leptopus. Their flowers can bloom all year long, the leaves are heart-shaped (cordate).
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MANCHEGO CHEESE
Manchego cheese is a Spanish sheep cheese, named after the kind of sheep (Manchega sheep) that’s producing the milk this cheese is made of. It has a pretty intense taste (as you would expect from cheese made from sheep milk), but not overpowering, is rich and creamy in taste. The texture depends on the age.…
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HOW A 4-YEAR-OLD DID THE VOICEOVER FOR PEPPA PIG
This is so random, but I still thought it was an interesting tidbit. The original voice of Peppa Pig was a 4-year-old girl who couldn’t read the script. So they had her mom read the lines to her, and the girl would then copy her. I thought that’s an interesting way of doing things, and…
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1-CLICK .HEIC TO .JPG CONVERSION ON MACOS (WITHOUT INSTALLING ANY SOFTWARE)
I’ve now been a longtime MacBook user, but I know that there are many things I never make use of. Today I learned about a cool feature that natively comes with MacOS called Automator. With Automator, you can create automated tasks and processes from a wide variety of actions. This may include opening applications, copying…
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Neuralink: Telepathic typing, brain-implant robots & more
I’m not a tech person, but it’s amazing what Neuralink is up to. If you haven’t watched this the recent demonstration, it’s worth spending a few minutes watching this: A monkey that types with the power of his mind, without using his hand or actually tapping keys on a physical keyboard. If that’s not science…
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THE LIVER KING – HOW DO PEOPLE FALL FOR BS LIKE THIS?
I didn’t know who the Liver King was until he recently got exposed for being on steroids, and then I went down a bit of a rabbit hole to learn more about his story. A guy that claimed to be eating raw liver, exercising, and advocating a “primal lifestyle” who had an incredible, superhero-like physique…
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THIS PAINTING WENT FROM $10K IN 2005 TO $450M IN 2017
In 2005, Sotheby’s sold Leonardo DaVinci’s painting Salvator Mundi for $10,000. Twelve years later, in 2017, Saudi Prince Bader bin Abdullah bought paid $450,000,000 for it. How did this happen? It’s a fascinating story that Naha Tandon Sharma recently told in an article for Luxurylaunches, but the tldr is: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are…
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BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TRUST
Be selective generous with your trust. You want to have as many people in your life who you can count on, but no more. The cost of trusting someone who then betrays your trust is high, but the cost of not trusting anyone is even higher. So how exactly do you go about it? It’s…
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