Category: A Better World

Snack Efficiencies: Chia Pudding

I read in a comic book that ninjas in Edo-Period Japan would carry special food pellets with them, and they could survive on just two a day.  I also remember the comic book saying that the pellets were a dehydrated preparation of chia and honey.  Some day I will have to find that reference again,…

Bad Mug

Some people  would look at a mug, and figure it’s the same as every other mug.  People have favourite mugs, but that’s just because of hte picture, right?  Or maybe it has some sentamental significance — it was a gift, or a prize or something. Maybe you think that mug technology has been perfected, and…

The Salad Bowl and the Drying Rack

If you look for pictures of “salad bowl on a drying rack,” there is a good chance you will find pictures of salad bowls, and pictures of drying racks, but you are not likely to find any pictures of salad bowls ON a drying rack.  WHY?  Because you shouldn’t do it.  Not really. Because people…

Ignoring Spot (the exchange rate, not the dog)

“So you mean to tell me that whenever I withdraw money in a foreign currency, the official exchange rate can be ignored and any amount of money can be taken from my account?  And I have no way to determine what that rate will be before I withdraw the money, and I will have absolutely…