Paleolithic diets have become all the rage, but are they getting our ancestral diet all wrong? Right now, one half of all Americans are on a diet. The other half just gave up on their diets and are on
The post after this one on “black rust” describes why you should heat the pan before applying oil for seasoning. This helps the seasoning to adhere and makes the pan pleasantly black. http://sherylcan
A Speck in the Sea John Aldridge on the deck of the Anna Mary. Credit... Daniel Shea for The New York Times Looking back, John Aldridge knew it was a stupid move. When you’re alone on the deck of a lo
The tagine is a great stovetop cooking vessel. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. I was so delighted by the Kate Christensen recipe I’m making a version of it here that reflects my way of cooking. Is it a
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California's Crystal Cathedral, now Christ Cathedral (Photo by Wikipedia user Nepenthes) The Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California, is one of America’s largest and most celebrated ecclesiasti
The recentdecades were painful ones for the church in the United States. The Roman Catholic Church endured wave afterwave of humiliating sex abuse scandals. The response of the hierarchy wasfrequently
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After a week in which it looked like the Great American Way was closer to a suicide pact than a governing arrangement—with so many undemocratic choke points that the polity strangles—a whole new way o
By Stephanie Simon 09/25/2013 11:14 PM EDT Updated: 09/26/2013 12:44 PM EDT Taxpayers send nearly $2 billion a year to cyber schools that let students from kindergarten through 12th grade receive a fr
Beware : evil bulldozer ! I. A curious yet significant event in ed-tech occurred last week. A tome of some importance was released – and no, I don’t mean the publication of either Ron Paul’s or Diane Ravitch’s new book. I’m talking about a 118-slide presentation by Whitney Tilson ( PDF ). The…
We've all met gnocchi before. Those potato-based pasta pillows that at their best are light and bouncy, though more often then not come off as leaden and heavy. Well, those gnocchi are another story f
Don Rawitsch rolled out a four-foot-long piece of white butcher paper on the living room floor of his Crystal apartment. He glanced at an open map of the United States frontier from the 1800s. Then he traced a squiggly line from the right side of the paper to the left. By the time his roommates Bill…
When a Wayland history teacher stumbled onto the papers of a deceased West Roxbury war veteran, he assigned his students to write the mystery man’s biography. What they found was Boston’s version of F
T here is nothing quite like a hit over the middle in a football game. A ballet-graceful wide receiver at full extension grabs a tightly thrown pass only to be smacked down like a rag doll by a heat-s
Glenn Fleishman tracks humanity's vicarious voyage into the outer reaches of the solar system—and the strange, indefinite transition to the place beyond it. NASA confirmed Thursday that the Voyager 1
One night in early April, 1958, Joyce Glassman’s doorbell rang and woke her. An aspiring novelist who worked as a secretary at a small publishing firm, Glassman lived in a tenement on East Thirteenth
In his new book, “ Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks ,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow (¶) to
You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields, and the country's competitive edge i
Credit: Photograpg by Jose Mandojana On a sunny Tuesday last October, Oracle Team USA were taking their new sailboat out for a spin. The boat – a 72-foot wing-sail catamaran called an AC72, funded by software billionaire Larry Ellison – had been engineered over hundreds of thousands of man-hours to…
Never agree to serve on a hymnal committee. First of all, if your church (like mine) is still using hymnals, that’s probably a sign that its membership (like mine) is aging and shrinking. Second, one
We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change. Illustration by Harry Campbell Why do some innovations spread so swif
Of all the occupational golden ages to come and go in the twentieth century—for doctors, journalists, ad-men, autoworkers—none lasted longer, felt cushier, and was all in all more golden than the reig
"Keep going straight here," Joe Biden says. We've been at this for hours, climbing in and out of the SUV to look at stuff, a water tower, a stone wall, the house where the most beautiful girl in the w
Thursday, July 23, 2020 State of the Bible: Left unread during the coronavirus pandemic Religion News Service: The number of American adults the American Bible Society considers “Scripture engaged” ba
Because this country’s Independence Day falls on a Thursday this year, I’m sure there will be churches that celebrate it on the Sunday before July 4 and the Sunday after it. Past the celebration of Co
Riff My Kids Are Obsessed With Technology, and It’s All My Fault Credit... Illustration by Tom Gauld A few months ago, I attended my daughter Josie’s kindergarten open house, the highlight of which wa
This interview with Laszlo Bock , senior vice president of people operations at Google , was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Most songwriters in Nashville want to get their songs on the radio. Keith and Kristyn Getty hope their songs end up in dusty old hymnbooks. The Gettys, originally from Belfast, Irel
[image source: Expocrete ] With most residential work, be it a new home or a remodel, the design of the exterior “hardscape” is just as important as the home itself. These areas can include an entry s
Violins are displayed in the workshop of Mathias Menanteau, a French violin maker on January 30, 2013 in Rome. After studying and working in England and Germany, Menanteau setup his workshop in the It
The Perfect Storm Much of the education technology world – and many of the foundations and venture firms that provide the funding for it – are obsessed with adaptive learning. The Gates Foundation’s A
Michael Lopp is now an engineering leader at Apple. Michael Lopp (aka Rands) is a former director at Palantir , an author of a number of books on software engineering and management best practices, as
James and Michael, photographed by Donna Turner Ruhlman . Parents Who Cook is a Q&A series in which I ask my guests about how their cooking has changed after kids entered the picture, and pick their b
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