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July 14, 2013Johannes Stoetter turns humans into animals, fruit and landscapes in amazing paintings | Mail Online
July 7, 2013Umami Burger Comes to New York, Armed With One Addictive Ingredient — Grub Street New York
July 6, 2013QT:”
The word umami was first popularized in the early 1900s by a Tokyo scientist named Kikunae Ikeda, who invented the term (the very loose translation in Japanese is “deliciousness”) to describe the flavor-enhancing properties of glutamic acid, essentially known as MSG. The “fifth” taste (the other four being sweet, sour, salty, and bitter), as its believers call it, and I am one of them, is the tangy, faintly acidic, deeply addictive flavor that you feel in the back of your mouth when you eat a whole range of foods like gently cooked tomatoes, or anchovies, or a crunchy, caramelized, well-seared piece of beef. It’s one of the keys to the enduring appeal of the great Asian-food cultures (Japanese miso, soy sauce, and Thai nam pla fish sauce are veritable umami bombs)…
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#Umami #Burger Comes to New York – has a good description of 5th taste http://bit.ly/1aLsHYm via @panyungchih
http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/05/umami-burger-comes-to-new-york.html
Best Urban Explorers and Place Hacking Stories – GQ March 2013
July 1, 2013Place Hacking – would have been called stunt trespassing 10 years ago MT @alorenza: Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky http://bit.ly/14HLEET Best Urban Explorers and Place Hacking Stories – GQ March 2013
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013?printable=true&mobify=0
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013?mobify=0
best figures ever! =)
June 29, 2013Hand drawn figures in PubMed central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261217/
not actually not that much worse than those in the final MS:
xkcd: Regular Expressions
March 5, 2012Weltschmerz – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
January 21, 2012http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weltschmerz
QT: mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
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