Random links
- As Good as Dead
- "Is there really such a thing as brain death?"
- Yotam Ottolenghi Goes Inside the Gaza Kitchen, Part One
- "The whole business of women cooking home food at home and men cooking the official street food in restaurants or other sorts of eateries really struck a chord. I think this is something that actually happens across the Middle East--men cooking in restaurants and women cooking at home. When I did a program about Jerusalem for the BBC a couple years ago, I went to visit a Palestinian home. The cousin of the family was working in a hotel, and the women of the house showed me a few Palestinian dishes, but they said, "Let's do it quickly before our cousin arrives, because then it's going to be all sorts of fancy food." They wanted to get everything out of the way because they knew he can't cook their food and they can't cook his food, and it's almost like there's actually no dialogue."
- Bacon Mistakes To Avoid: How To Cook Bacon
- Ways to make bacon better ...
- The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5
- DSM-5 is the latest version of the American Psychological Association's manual of mental disorders. What did the director of the US National Institute of Mental Health have to say? "Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure." What else does the article describe it? "That consensus is now clearly missing. Whether it ever really existed remains in doubt. As one consultant for DSM-III conceded to the New Yorker magazine about the amount of horsetrading that drove that supposedly "evidenced-based" edition from 1980: 'There was very little systematic research, and much of the research that existed was really a hodgepodge—scattered, inconsistent, ambiguous.'"