True, add salt and pepper and lemon, and don't overcook it and a standard roast chicken is fantastic. But I have to say the roast chicken I had the one time I went to Bouchon Bistro was pretty next level.
The brine recipe for it in his cookbook is ridiculously elaborate.
I defer to his expertise on roast chicken as well.
May have to boycott the French Laundry for this stance.
(Which I could totally afford to eat at otherwise.)
If you'd prefer to listen to—rather than read—words by me, here's an audio version of my recent feature on Stardust Solutions, exploring why a number of scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.
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Roughly equivalent to a carbon tax of $80 per metric ton of greenhouse gas emissions.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
thanks to @volts.wtf for having me on to talk about coordinating and planning fossil phase out to build a better and actually decarbonized world. there‘s a lot we can do if we imagine a people-centered, service oriented future — and a LOT we miss if we don’t.
Yes, there’s just a preliminary one here so far: avalanche.org/avalanche-ac...
I will be live-streaming with the @scifri.bsky.social book club on March 27 at 4 PM ET. Join us!
Here's the Sierra Avalanche Center report on the Frog Hut/Castle Peak avalanche tragedy:
Despite Smokey the Bear's motto, lightning-sparked wildfires rip across the largest areas of forests each year. Skyward Wildfire says we can simply shut it off.
So what's really driving up electricity prices?
Basically everything but renewables, according to LBNL and CATF.
And if you're not into reading a pre-print, here's a handy video explainer:
This new pre-print from @renshaolei.bsky.social & others raises a crucial point about data center water usage: While average water usage rates may be fine, peak demand during sizzling periods could cause real strains on regional water systems:
I just had a conversation with an expert on shipping and the Strait of Hormuz that brought into sharp relief just how completely messed up that situation is.
Y'all, 20% of the world's oil / natural gas, plus 15% of all container shipping passes through there, and almost no ships are now transiting
I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it
The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed.
Absolutely bonkers story about Google Gemini instructing a man to procure a robot body for it so Gemini could become his wife www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...
Scarlet Joe Handsome has spent much of the latter half of winter observing the feeder from a pear tree or munching on fallen seeds in the snow. But here he is in all his vivid and pensive glory.
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
I hung in there for cap, but you can’t make me look up what mogged means.
I didn't get into this point in the piece, but Skyward did stress that "we do not intend to eliminate all wildfires and support prescribed and cultural burning, natural fire regimes, and proactive forest management."
And we know that established practices like cultural burning, prescribed burns and fuels thinning can a lot to reduce the risk of extreme fires — if we allow them and pay for them.
Lighting strikes & the wildfires they spark are a natural process that plays a crucial role in the health of forests. Excessive fire suppression efforts allow a buildup of densely packed trees & plants that can produce fires that are bigger and harder to extinguish when they do finally ignite.
There are also open questions about environmental impacts and what role, if any, lightning suppression should play within the broader suite of tools we have for fire prevention and fire fighting.
I saved this to watch whenever I got a little overwhelmed today. I made it to 10am. I may need to watch it several times www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...
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I am not enjoying being stuck between two groups of theocrats in the grip of hazy apocalyptic fantasies
The various experiments did seem to show that metallic chaff, or narrow fiberglass strands coated with aluminum, reduced lightning strikes, at least to some degree and under certain conditions.
A near tragedy in the late 1960s renewed interest in lightning suppression, when the Apollo 12 space shuttle was struck —twice! — within seconds of launch.
