mousebender

Great piece. "How efficiently it enables us to forget to look up and ask: What is it that story does not allow us to see?"--that's a good guideline for critical reading and thought. The trend of narrative leads to journalism by individual anecdote, and that's a sign to keep an eye out for spin and deception. It was a surprise to know that storytelling had its skeptics even in Plato's time. To improve understanding and to improve the lives of mankind, the world needs explanations with data, logic, a critical eye, and plausible causation--not stories.

PolitiFact flags this claim as false:

<https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/25/viral-imag...>

"New Florida law doesn't require university students, faculty and staff to register political views"

FYI, before a December 12 edit on Wikipedia, it was listed as a vegetable. Vandalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Onion&type=revisi...

Apparently a fruit is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds--not a bulb like an onion.

As your product shares its name with an open source product that was created in 1992, will you be renaming your product? Assumedly there are no barriers to going to your prior name, Flingo.

This article belongs on Digg, not HN.

Understood. But by the time the guests are in, it has probably rested for 5 minutes already. Any more than that, and the steak will have cooled off too much. Hey, that's the way it works for me.

Seconded. I salted a one-inch-thick steak about an hour ahead of grill time, with a rinse and pat-dry just before grilling. It still tasted too salty. Furthermore, even with 5-10 minutes' rest time after grilling, the steak still lost too much juice upon cutting.

This method works: Preheat grill to 500 deg F. Lightly salt and pepper the steak just before grilling. Grill for 4 minutes per side per inch of thickness. Remove, call the guests in, and serve. Yum.

Link that won't expire:

http://www.livescience.com/culture/children-passions-autonom...

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Condemns Free National Wi-Fi

There; fixed that for you.