“Any recipe can be a Power recipe — just add protein.” – Dom Serves: 4–6Taste: 4/5Preparation: 5/5Health: 5/5 Power Oats are exactly what they sound like — oats, with added power (i.e., protein). These oats in particular are a rich, chocolatey, dessert-like recipe, super nutritious and versatile for whatever you have in your pantry. You […]
Arataki: “One pan to boil them all, one pan to fry them, one pan to season them all and in the spices bind them.” Levi: “Under no circumstances should sesame derived products be introduced to this dish.” Serves: 3–6Taste: 4/5Preparation: 3/5Health: 3/5 (base), 4.5/5 (with all vegetable and protein additions) In the beginning there was
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Serves: N/A (its a condiment)Taste: 5/5Preparation: 5/5Health: 5/5 Tahina is incredibly versatile and can be used as a sauce or dip. Its tangy and savory profile complements a wide range of dishes – both savoury (e.g., salad, pizza) and sweet (e.g., cake, ice cream). The acidity from the lemon juice perfectly balances the bitterness of
I often get compliments on my hair, and then astonished looks when I mention that I have been nopoo (i.e., shampoo-free) for ~9 years. Admittedly, I haven’t had long hair until very recently (I stopped cutting my hair almost two years ago), and the difficulty of maintenance does scale with hair length. But after some
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Serves: 2-6Taste: 5Preparation: 5Health: 3 Everybody always asks me why my popcorn tastes so good. The short answer is flavacol, a potent buttery-salt that can be found in most cinema popcorn buckets. But the real trick to good tasting popcorn lies in the cooking method, which I describe in this post. Ingredients Method There you
This post contains an edited transcription of an awesome conversation that I recently had with David Pearce and Kristian Rönn at the Swedish QRI Strategic Summit in July 2024. Like all of the best conversations it started with a walk outside, and the topics we covered fell broadly under the umbrella of philosophy of science,
“Sometimes it seems like the self – the sense of the self – is actually the collection of all this: body and mind and consciousness, et cetera. Sometimes in different ways it can seem completely independent of it.” Rob Burbea, 2010; ‘The Experience Of Self (Personality and Beyond)’ [45:57] Epistemic status: poetry What is self?
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When I’m not monkeying around, I’m typically reading, writing, or discussing philosophy with my peers, and of these activities, I think that philosophical discussions have the highest ROI. This is because (1) it an active process that demands a high level of sustained engagement, and (2) it allows you to outsource your cognition to the
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