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How Did Roasting Vegetables Become a Thing? Didn’t Everyone Used to Boil Vegetables?
" the oven was for centuries considered to have an entirely different purpose from open fire: “The prejudice against closed-off cooking ranges was largely that they seemed too much like bread ovens. … Ovens were things that baked... ” This division persisted into the early 20th century, so it’s not surprising that many older people cook with an implicit sense that ovens are for breads and sweets and stovetops are for vegetables and proteins (except for those joints of meat that were too large to be cooked on the range)."
Netflix Binges and the New Tech Utopia: We were promised Star Trek; instead we got Wall-E.
"The most likely people to engage in free online college lectures are those who already have a graduate degree or are high-income earners. The same is true for volunteering and political involvement."
A Claim of Innocence Is No Longer a Roadblock to Parole
"Three times, the parole board rejected Mr. Cox, even though a co-defendant - who admitted to the murder, and has said Mr. Cox was innocent - was granted parole three years ago. The predicament that had confronted Mr. Cox is known as the parole paradox: Admitting guilt has historically given inmates a better shot at parole."
Are corporations people too?
The results of brain scans: "So what happened when people made judgments about the behavior of companies? Were companies understood more like people or like objects? 'The patterns of activity involved in judging corporations were almost the same as those involved in judging people,' said Savjani. 'In other words, corporations are represented by the brain as social beings rather than inanimate objects.'"