P.S. Does anyone know where I could get some metric-only measuring cups?
The key is to never use measuring cups, stick to the scale for everything. Using recipes made with mass is the bed way to do it, but if you are trying to adapt a volume based recipe, look at the serving size on the food package; it should be given in volume and mass. For example my king arthur brand 00 pizza flour serving size is 1/4 cup (30 g).
Yeah, I think the problem is that the Chicago School is to economics what Freud is to psychology. Despite a century of progress since Freud, pop psych is still all based on him. The difference is that those in charge of policy don't derive any benefit from applying Freud to mental health policy the way that they might derive a benefit from applying Friedman to economic policy.
Yeah, that's true, but that's not the only way to run experiments. "Natural experiments" where experimental conditions happen naturally can be exploited for scientific aims.
I think it should be treated similar to the medical field. They human body is super complex, and there's competing mechanisms for all sorts of things. You could discover a mechanism by which a compound decreases blood pressure. There could be another mechanism by which the same compound increases blood pressure by a much larger amount. A lot of economists would just take that first mechanism as ground truth, and recommend giving the compound to a patient with high blood pressure.
I think in lieu of perfect information (which is always the case for economy and medicine), it's best to just go for whatever is the least abstract benefit. The way I was taught macroeconomics (as a teen, I definitely don't have a degree in it or anything), a minimum wage places an artificial limit on the total amount of labor that will be done, and therefore decreases GDP, and therefore everyone is worse off. That could be the case (I don't think it is), but it's very abstract, so it needs an overwhelming amount of evidence. Contrast that to the fact that a person cannot survive off of $2/hr, which is not an abstract conclusion, and you have good rationale for a minimum wage.
Not to strongly recommend a particular ETF too much since I'm far from an expert, but there is a fossil fuel free S&P500 index and and there is a ETF that tracks it (SPYX). There's still going to be plenty of companies in there that are doing all sorts of bad things, but at least you know it's not fossil fuels and it's a broad index so it should be a relatively "safe" investment.
A lot of macroeconomics in particular seems to follow aristotlian thinking, i.e. you can just logic your way from step to step. It is interesting in that pure mathematics does work this way in that you can start with a bunch of axioms/definitions and combine them and work with them until you reach a conclusion without any need for experimentation. For example, you don't need to measure a bunch of triangles to show that the Pythagorean theorem is true.
The way i was taught macroeconomics in school, it takes the mathematical approach of starting with a list of assumptions that seem to be true, and using mathematical logic to derive conclusions. The trouble is that: 1) many starting assumptions aren't as true as you'd think, and 2) many of the "logical" steps also aren't as logical as you'd think.
Supply and demand is an easy example. The classic idea is that as supply goes up, price goes down, and vice versa, while as price goes up, demand goes down. The existence of Veblen goods (i.e., things that people want because they are expensive) shows that the demand part isn't right.
None of this would be a problem if it was just an intellectual exercise to help develop hypotheses for use with more sound scientific methods, but it's used for policy directly.
One of my friends had their water hookups backwards, too, and they had no clue until I checked after they complained to me about how all their clothes were shrinking despite only ever washing on cold and hang drying. Sounds like a nice feature to have a sensor in there.
Pawpaws are shade tolerant, but folks who grow them as a crop (from what I've seen) treat them like a normal orchard tree in full sun. I suspect that these trees would be much more drought tolerant if they were shade grown like is common in a lot of tropical food forest setups. Ive seen probably thousands of pawpaw trees (they grow in groves, and im always on the lookout), but i can only think of a single tree that's in full sun, and it's one that someone planted.
I've definitely got a soft spot for any electromechanical appliances. Computers have gotten so cheap that every appliance built now runs on them, but it's much harder (for me, at least) to do anything about it when one stops working.
My chest freezer stopped working, and i was able to put in a new relay for $2. The circuit diagram made it easy to diagnose with a multimeter. Oddly enough, i had to buy a 10 pack, so i likewise have a bunch of spares I'll never need.
My dishwasher stopped working, and the manual specifically showed which wires to connect to to test resistance of each component to see if anything needed to be replaced. It turned out that the float was gunked up, so it read as having enough water even though it didn't.
My fridge ice maker stopped working, and I just had to stick in a jumper wire to put it through a test cycle that immediately made it clear what was going wrong (a short), and i was able to fix it.
This is all in contrast to my clothes washer that runs on a computer, and it gives me an error message that basically just means "it's not draining right", and there's like 8 potential causes, and I've tried to address them all, but it's still get the error message.
All concussions are traumatic brain injuries, not all traumatic brain injuries are concussions.
That tannery is a subsidiary of red wing boots, so I bet it's really high quality. I've had stuff made from leather that looks like/sounds like that. I think it's just completely full-grain that hasn't been pre-"broken in", so it feels really stiff compared to a lot of cheaper products that beat it up ahead of time so it looks right out of the box. It's should take on a really nice patina.
Good news on the waterbottle pockets, though. Too many companies put them on bags assuming we are all still carrying around tiny bottles
I like to add basically a chai spice mix. I'm a snob when it comes to chai, so I'll mortar/pestle up spices to use for chai, and I'll often do enough at once for multiple batches (even though it's best completely fresh). It goes really well in oats. If you want the lazier version, "pumpkin spice" mix in the US is basically a chai spice mix.
For savory oats, I treat it like congee. There's a lot of ways to make it, but you can either take it in a western direction (chicken stock, bacon, fried eggs, etc) or more Asian (dashi/miso stock, soy sauce, sesame, ramen egg, etc.).
They aren't talking about rolled or steel cut oats, they are talking whole grain as in unprocessed other than winnowing. They are also known as "groats".