It’s The Cilantro

What makes Indian food so delicious?

But behind the appeal of Indian food — what makes it so novel and so delicious — is also a stranger and subtler truth. In a large new analysis of more than 2,000 popular recipes, data scientists have discovered perhaps the key reason why Indian food tastes so unique: It does something radical with flavors, something very different from what we tend to do in the United States and the rest of Western culture. And it does it at the molecular level.

House of Rain

The builder wanted to start our new house back in mid-January. But, the constant rain and snow (and sleet) has completely stopped him. The trees where the house will go have been cleared. That probably only took a couple of days, weeks ago. So now the lot is a slope with many thousands of square feet of very deep mud, with scattered boulders and a huge pile of tree roots waiting to be chipped and hauled away. So, no real progress.

The house next door is going up, though, since that lot was already cleared and smoothed. I wouldn’t have thought it was a good idea to try putting up a concrete and cinder-block foundation when the temps are below freezing. But that’s because I don’t know anything about concrete, I guess.

Choice

Hillary Clinton may have violated federal regulations by exclusively using her personal email address to conduct business at the State Department, the New York Times reported Monday.

In context, Clinton isn’t the only government official or secretary of state to conduct some official business on a personal email account. But Clinton didn’t have a government email address at all during her tenure as secretary of state and her aides didn’t take steps to preserve her correspondence on government servers, according to the report.

I can has second choice, plz?

Update:
On the other hand, maybe she broke no laws.

I’d still like a second choice.

Chirality

Made an appointment to see a hand specialist. The appointment scheduler asked me which hand was giving me trouble, but not what the trouble was.

I assume this means there is a doctor who only does right hands and another who only does left hands.

Theocratic Fools

TPM links to a poll:

(Republicans) Do you believe in global warming or not?
Believe in global warming …………………………. 25%
Do not believe in global warming ……………….. 66%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 10%

(Republicans) Do you believe in evolution or not?
Believe in evolution………………………………….. 37%
Do not believe in evolution………………………… 49%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 13%

(Republicans) Would you support or oppose establishing Christianity as the national religion?
Support establishing Christianity as the national religion……………………………………….. 57%
Oppose establishing Christianity as the national religion……………………………………….. 30%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 13%

And these aren’t even the stupid “Tea Party” Republicans:

(Republicans) Do you consider yourself to be a member of the Tea Party?
Yes………………………………………………………… 27%
No …………………………………………………………. 60%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 12%

We are fucked.