July 2010
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Jul 30th
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Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 27th
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Google Doodles
I was a big fan of last week’s Alphonse Mucha google icon (or google doodle as people in the know say, apparently). It prompted a look back at some previous doodles that have graced our favorite search engine… Jean-Paul Sartre’s 105th Birthday Pi (π) Day Wallace and Gromit Japan got one in honor of Tsukimi (Moon Viewing Day!!!) Jackson Pollock’s Birthday ...
Jul 26th
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
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Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 13th
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umami lament...
So they tell me there’s a 5th taste. We’ve got bitter, salty, sour, sweet…and now umami? They’ve thieved the name from Japanese, rather than go with the English translations “meaty” or “savory.”  It comes from amino acids and glutamate- proteins, in other words, AND it was cleverly synthesized into everyone’s favorite additive, MSG. But...
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Jul 9th
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Jul 8th
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Jul 7th
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Jul 6th
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Jul 5th
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Jul 2nd
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Good and Lonesome
Jul 1st