Choosing your next book can be a difficult prospect. Sometimes it's downright exhausting. That's surely part of the appeal of tackling a massive reading project like the one currently underway at Kahn's Books. This intrepid blogger is planning to plow through every book that hit the #1 spot on the Publishers Weekly annual bestseller list, which stretches all the way back to 1913.
I have something of a taste for self-help books, particularly in the productivity/financial/employment sub-genres. But having read several solidly evidence-based self-help books recently, it has become clear to me how many self-help books are just a bunch of bloviating by the author, and not actually helpful, realistic or informative at all.
Onions are cheap and keep well, which means that most grocery stores offer a surprisingly wide variety. Even your regular old Safeway will have at least four varieties of onion on hand.
The first question you should ask is, what is the onion for? Will you be cooking with it, or eating it raw? And if it's to be raw, what kind of flavor do you want - a good sharp bite, or a mild and softer crunch?
1. A more controlled color palette
Live-action television shows often have their touchstones. The gold picture frame hung on the inside of the door in Monica and Rachael's apartment. Jerry Seinfeld's kitchen. The crocheted afghan on Roseanne's couch. But none of these iconic items can compare to an animated show's distinctive color palette.
I need to get one of those little buggers for my own dog!
It’s funny to start having moments that make me think I’m old while I’m smack-dab in the middle of my 20s. Yet, having been super stoked for the unveiling of the Super Nintendo as well as each subsequent system since then, the idea of getting pumped up for the upcoming PlayStation 4 only brings back memories of a gaming past.
One perennial topic in food circles is the question of, "Why can't they just invent a food bar with 100 percent of your daily nutritional needs?" After all, we have Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Goat Chow, Monkey Chow… where's the People Chow?
(Note: One man spent a week eating nothing but Monkey Chow. It didn't go well for him. You can read his hilarious story here.)
With the All-Star break having just passed, it’s safe to say we've made it halfway through the 2012/2013 NBA season. It has been a nice change to last season’s lockout shortened year, with the drama and excitement being at an all-time high. While we still have a long way to go, and playoff excitement doesn't start for another few months, this season has been far from a let down. So what can be said about what has happened and what the future holds?
Even though I bought the Pets expansion pack when it first came out, I have only barely done any breeding of my pets until recently. Sure I bred a horse or two, but nothing like the concerted effort I have been making lately to create my own hideous Frankenstein-like dog breed. (I think ugly things are more interesting than pretty things!)
In a world where sugar is a very common ingredient in many of our foods, including many that it shouldn't even be in, diabetes has become a serious and dangerous threat to people’s health. Currently, insulin injections and close blood-sugar monitoring are the primary ways to keep this disease at bay. Now, however, it looks like a group of Spanish scientists may be on to something that could change that in the future. They have managed, by using gene therapy, to cure type 1 diabetes in test dogs.
