The NYT Cooking comment section but make it chemistry: "The procedure said to use 1.0 equivalent of NaH but I used 10 equivalents of sulfuric acid. I obtained a black tar. Terrible protocol"

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With all my heart I hope Talarico wins, but this kind of thing has to stop; it is one of the reasons so many Democratic voters hate the Democratic party. And it's not a Talarico problem; it's a Democratic consultant-class problem.

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I think a lot about how much this is the product of an era that saw the Berlin Wall fall, the Cold War end, and the threat of sudden nuclear annihilation vanish. The possibility of a peaceful future was in reach for a moment. Framing conflict as aberration is at the heart of TNG.

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you might also note that he’s additionally 1) an American and 2) a refugee, if you wanted to develop a theory of sociological mechanisms quite frequently produce Nobels

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RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

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