This is a little late, I suppose, but I just noticed that the USDA has “changed their cooking temperature recommendation”:http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/NR_040506_01/index.asp for turkey. They had previously recommended cooking to 180&deg F; (170° F for the breast only). They’ve now dropped that to 165°.
At 180° most of the moisture is cooked out. This will go a [...] Read more »

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I don’t have much time this morning, but
jbruno wants to know what we get out of combining science and religion. I tend to think religion and science are complimentary, not competing, ways of viewing the world. Religion gives us an approximate framework responding to the world around us. Science gives us a detailed but [...] Read more »

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Vacations are hard. Just this: on the subject of the “speaker vote”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/11/17/politics-vacation/, see August’s “commentary”:http://www.xoverboard.com/blogarchive/week_2006_11_19.html#001963 and “comic”:http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2006_11_20.html. Read more »

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I can’t remember what the last update on movie reviews here was — yeah, search box, but that takes effort! — so here are some of the more recent movie reviews on
Anvil & Sprocket.

Dark Water: the heartbreak of haunted plumbing. Read more »

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Here’s an interesting idea I got from the “Tufte seminar”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/11/16/data-please/. Tufte refers to different presentation methods as being “low resolution” or “high resolution” — resolution referring to the amount of data you can present. That’s not necessarily tied to actual physical resolution (like 300dpi or 800×600), although obviously in many contexts the two are closely [...] Read more »

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