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99 Microlog entries tagged with ‘theguardian’
Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for full-of-herbs fish cakes
Totally making these, but not with haddock, ugh. Coley or whiting would be great. Permalink ·
Microbes manipulate your mind
It surprised me to learn a few years ago how connected the brain and the gut really are. It’s freaky stuff, neuroscience. Permalink ·
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s parsnip recipes
Weird that the French don’t eat them. Then again, I didn’t eat them till a few months ago. Permalink ·
Martha Raddatz and the faux objectivity of journalists
It’s easy to ignore these subtle (and not so subtle) biases because we’re too focused on the big picture, but obviously we need to pay closer attention. Permalink ·
The way we love now: couples who meet online
Isn’t this the norm now? I know it wasn’t so much when Bee and I met, so we kinda had two stories going for a while, but come on, it’s 2012 now, this is how things are! Permalink ·
Yotam Ottolenghi recipes: spring onion and chilli buns, plus crab, bulgur and sumac cakes
I’m totally making those crab cakes, once I get my hands on some sumac. Permalink ·
Paul Krugman: ‘I’m sick of being Cassandra. I’d like to win for once’
You know we’re going to revisit voices like his some day and think ‘Why didn’t we listen?’ even though we know exactly why, for the same reasons why people have never listened, ever, in all recorded history and millennia before. Permalink ·
The Guardian reviews Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer
Art’s biggest charlatan gets torn apart by The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones. Bravo! Permalink ·
Yotam Ottolenghi’s shredded lamb shoulder with watercress and ginger recipe
Ottolenghi does it again; this lamb recipe looks amazing. Will definitely be trying it. Permalink ·
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s onion recipes
I don’t care if Hugh’s a posh git; I love me some onions and these recipes look delicious. Permalink ·
Top 10 walks in Europe
Might well do one of these someday. Permalink ·
The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death
If this story doesn’t enrage you, nothing will. Permalink ·
What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news? Not as much as there should be
This is some serious Baudrillard-level shit Brooker’s messing with here. Permalink ·
Paul Krugman: ‘I’m sick of being Cassandra. I’d like to win for once’
Krugman’s voice isn’t a lone one, but we’ve reached a situation where those making the decisions are so invested in their failures that they can’t admit how much they messed up. Permalink ·
Susan Cain: ‘Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts’
I read her book over the last few weeks, and obviously it reflects my own personal biases, but she really does make compelling arguments to back up her case. Permalink ·
What’s my motivation?: Sam Bain on writing for TV
“My writing partner Jesse Armstrong and I have run the gamut. On one of the first sitcoms we were hired to write for, we were keen to be involved at every stage. We asked for an office, and the producer obliged by giving us a desk in the photocopying room. The symbolism could only have been clearer if he’d ushered us into a spare cubicle in the gents.” Ouch. Permalink ·
Dog ad gives viewers paws for thought
Forget the rubbish about this ad being designed for dogs and answer me this: how did the dogs get the pallet out of the van? And more importantly, why did they drag it all the way over to the opposite cliff? Permalink ·
Where are the judges fit for the internet age?
“The web is making what was local global. It makes that evidence of faults, which once would have been forgotten, permanently available to the malicious and small-minded.” Indeed. Permalink ·
Psychologists fear US manual will widen mental illness diagnosis
It’s more than a bit warped that ‘shyness in children’ and ‘being a teenager’ are somehow now diagnosable as mental disorders. I don’t see how that’s helpful to anyone. Permalink ·
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s cumin recipes
Not sure about the cumin cookies so much, but now I’m craving kofte. Permalink ·
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