Stephen DUBNER: I have one gripe about chip bags, especially for the single-serve. It seems to me very suboptimal to have the only opening at the top, where you have to jam your hand in there, and you can’t really see what you’re getting. Wouldn’t it be better to have a bag...
I imagine I missed a week or two, and then who knows what happened! May 17, 2020 What's Pat Been Up To? May 2020 I know we are in the middle of a pandemic, and we tend to be repeating the same boring days over and over again, but somehow it feels like only last week ...
LUSK: There’s nothing about the coronavirus that I’m aware of that is going to make people hungrier. I think what’s happened is, we are moving inventory from warehouses and grocery stores into our pantries and our refrigerators. So it almost has to be a short-term demand shock becaus...
With Uber, you will still get paired with a passenger even if you give them a 1 rating. I know this is the case because it has happened to me. Now is the time to break out the Not-So-Secret Menu. Here it is: Breakdown of my Not-So-Secret Passenger Rating Menu. ...
But then the morning picked up speed and I mentally gave the snail back into the care of the universe, acknowledging the likelihood that we would probably never know what had happened to it. A week passed and we all forgot about the snail. Then one night when I went in to feed the ...
I wish everybody well, but would just like to respond to a chef who is eating every thing for 15 years and nothing happened to him. I wish him all the health and hoping nothing happens to him. However, the statistics are not in his favor. Human body has an immune system that protect...
The playoffs are a tough time, when I want all my favorite players to have transcendent, legendary, career-making experiences… while their teams still lose. But someone has to win every round, and so it may as well have happened like this: ...
The first few times I went to a lake party two things always happened; 1. I stumble home and 2. I would be told by the residents that living in this neighborhood is, ” A LITTLE PIECE OF PARADISE”. Everyone who lives here is very close, eerily close and I’m thinking this ...
More recently, radio has been used to transmit everything from art to advertisements. In 2008, Doritos beamed its own ad to a solar system in the Ursa Majoris constellation, around 42 light-years away, according to the article in the International Journal of Astrobiology. In 2010, a message...
I wish everybody well, but would just like to respond to a chef who is eating every thing for 15 years and nothing happened to him. I wish him all the health and hoping nothing happens to him. However, the statistics are not in his favor. Human body has an immune system that protect...