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December 20, 2016
YES, BUT… Any Food Can Be Turned Into Beer.
The beauty of the craft beer world is the unbridled enthusiasm to brew something that’s never been tasted before. However, creating a beer with a familiar taste can be an almost greater challenge.
Take Shmaltz Brewing’s new Pastrami Pilsner. Created in partnership with Barcade, an East Coast chain of game-filled craft beer bars, the Pastrami Pils grew out of the simple desire to collaborate on something adventurous. Why did they pick pastrami? That detail has been lost to empty pint glasses.
Brewers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
THE WAGES OF LEFTY MEDIA HATE: Man accused of Ithaca homicide: ‘I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally and very proudly.’
ROGER KIMBALL on the purpose of art museums.
IF THE TEA PARTY HAD STAGED ARMED MARCHES DENOUNCING THE IRS, PAUL KRUGMAN WOULD HAVE CALLED FOR MARTIAL LAW: Black Panthers hold ‘human rights tribunal’ in Sherman Park. “Members of the Black Panthers of Milwaukee, some armed with guns, marched through the Sherman Park neighborhood on Sunday to protest what they called the ‘genocide’ of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement.”
UPDATE: Of course, lefties pretend.
DEALS ON batteries from AmazonBasics.
WHY LEFTISTS HATE TEXAS: Avik Roy: Texas Is a Model for a More-Libertarian, More Diverse America.
JUST DON’T TELL NOTORIOUS ROBOPHOBE MATT YGLESIAS: Sex robots could kill humans because they’ll be too good in bed.
MORE GOODNESS FROM PETER THIEL: Thiel, Others Push for Trump NASA Team Expansion: Expected appointments of outspoken commercial-space advocates to NASA transition team reflect venture capitalist’s influence.
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel and others have successfully pushed for advocates of commercial space ventures to join President-elect Donald Trump’s NASA transition team, a result of an internal tug of war over policy directions and future decision makers at the agency.
Transition leaders are poised to tap Alan Stern, chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a leading trade group, and Alan Lindenmoyer, a former head of NASA’s commercial space taxi program, to serve on the agency’s so-called landing team, according to people familiar with the matter.
Consultant Charles Miller, another ex-NASA official who championed commercial space programs over the years, also is slated to be appointed to the same panel, they said.
I’m happy to see this treated as a priority. It was beginning to look like too many business-as-usual types at NASA, and this is a welcome correction. Also, see this column of mine from last month.
SCIENCE: Milk or Sugar in Your Low-Viscosity-Liquid Dynamic? Scientists Seek the Perfect Cup of Coffee.
In recent papers they have examined the quantum mechanics of caffeine, the thermal properties of stovetop coffee-maker steam, the capillary action of the “coffee ring effect” and the low-viscosity-liquid dynamics of hot coffee. Some insist that aroma is the secret, others argue it is all about the ions in the water. One group of researchers attempted to calculate how long it would take to heat a pot of coffee by yelling at it.
Alfred Renyi, a Hungarian academic famous for both his love of coffee and his contributions to probability theory, once said, “A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” A 2011 study by Dunkin’ Donuts and CareerBuilder concluded that U.S. scientists and lab technicians are the heaviest coffee drinkers in the country.
What’s surprising about this effort to crack the coffee mystery is how resistant coffee seems to being cracked.
“It is the most challenging example of applied chemistry I have come across,” said computational chemist Christopher Hendon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who recently co-wrote a 134-page treatise on the effects of water chemistry on coffee. “There are a lot of variables that go into solving the perfect cup of coffee.”
Perfection can wait until after that first cup, strong and with just enough cream that you don’t have to wait before gulping it down.
MICHAEL WALSH: The Wages of Merkelism, and the Death of Europe.
That Merkel — like all the politically correct liberals across the European Union who have brought Europe to its present low estate — could not see this coming speaks to the tyranny of cultural Marxism that imposed itself on the nation-states of Europe in the form of the EU: a form of compulsive national suicide, preached as the logical consequence of guilt over World War II and imposed using the stick of “racism” with which to beat a gullible public.
Until now, Germany has suffered relatively little blowback to the willful blindness of its leaders: a suicide bombing here, a mass shooting there, a machete attack. Even the rape and murder of Maria Ladenburger in Freiburg by an Afghan “minor” “migrant” could not wake the country from its torpor.
And now comes Berlin. The site of the attack — the plaza near the famous Ku’damm (the main street of the former West Berlin) and a stone’s throw from the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial chuch — demolished during the war but left to stand as a ruined memento mori of the war’s devastation — now becomes a new memorial to a new war: a war that must be prosecuted with the same zeal and finality that rid the world of Nazi Germany in 1945. For the world now faces an even more worrisome, atavistic, and implacable foe that must be destroyed if western culture is to survive without fear or compromise.
Read the whole thing.
ON THE HARVARD LUNCH CLUB PODCAST, Judith Curry talks climate change and more.
HIROSHIMA, MON CALAMARI: Rogue One: The Star Wars Universe and its Writers on the Eve of the Trump Era.
My review of the new film, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
SPACE: Grail satellite analysis indicates lava tubes on the moon could be up to 1000 to 5000 meters wide which would be ideal sites for massive moon colonies. “Lunar lava tubes may potentially serve a role as enclosures for human habitats. Tunnels up to 5000 meters in diameter may exist, lying under 40 to 500 meters (130 ft) or more of basalt with a stable temperature of −20 °C (−4 °F). These natural tunnels provide protection from cosmic ray radiation, meteorites, micrometeorites, and ejecta from impacts. They are shielded from the variations in temperature at the lunar surface, which would provide a stable environment for inhabitants. Lunar lava tubes are typically found along the boundaries between lunar mares and highland regions. This would give ready access to elevated regions for communications, basaltic plains for landing sites and regolith harvesting, as well as underground mineral resources.”
POSTMODERN VIRTUE SIGNALING: Lena Dunham: ‘I Wish I Had’ An Abortion.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Be A Stoic.
SKYNET SMILES: U.S. Navy’s Drone Boat Swarm Practices Harbor Defense.
WINTER IS COMING: “While casualties resulting from heat waves receive wide publicity, deaths from bouts of extreme cold rarely do, and those resulting from ordinary winter weather warrant virtually no attention. Yet an international study covering 384 locations in 13 countries, including the United States, found that cold weather is responsible, directly or indirectly, for 20 times more deaths than hot weather.”