Skating and gulping
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allekhaI am once again pretending to be Canadian to watch the Olympics. (Sorry, Canada!) The commentary on the CBC feed is, like gymnastics, so much better than the NBC blathering, and even Peacock has ad breaks now, so this is way more enjoyable. (In figure skating non-Olympic news, man, I am glad that if my brain had to latch onto one of them, it was in for 'openly advocates for respect for LGBT people' Eteri girl instead of 'keeps posting racist TikToks after her fans begged her to stop' Eteri girl. Thanks, Zhenya. I posted a gifset version on Tumblr, and despite a fair few comments worrying about people going after her for not wording herself 100% perfectly - setting aside that this was translated by a teenager into, I assume, her non-native language and then further chopped up by me in the case of the Tumblr post - nobody's done so this time where I've seen it.)
I checked Covid cases where I am, and they are still higher than I feel comfortable with for skating :( All the shots of the gloriously smooth, clean ice really make me want to go to the rink again. At least the local CogSci group is doing board games tonight, which is always fun.
When I went to pick up my ILL, I also looked around in the nonfiction section and found the Made For Me shelf. I restrained myself to two more books and already finished one of them - Gulp by Mary Roach. A webcomic I read did a (not paid) promotion for it, I think, so the title jumped out at me. It's a book about eating in the 'weird science and history of aspects thereof' sense. The whole thing was super interesting - I read a lot of it while eating dinner, and eagerly recounted half of it when calling my parents this week - though like many pop science books, the author was trying way too hard to seem funny and clever and needs to dial it back by a third.
My favorite parts were probably the sections about chewing. Firstly because 'fletcherizing' (chewing your food to absolute death under the pseudoscientific idea that it will magically extract more nutrients) guy was hilarious to read about, and secondly for the discussion on chewing styles. I sometimes worry that I don't chew my food enough and gulp it down too fast, so it was somewhat reassuring to read that humans naturally vary a lot in how and how much they chew food.
I checked Covid cases where I am, and they are still higher than I feel comfortable with for skating :( All the shots of the gloriously smooth, clean ice really make me want to go to the rink again. At least the local CogSci group is doing board games tonight, which is always fun.
When I went to pick up my ILL, I also looked around in the nonfiction section and found the Made For Me shelf. I restrained myself to two more books and already finished one of them - Gulp by Mary Roach. A webcomic I read did a (not paid) promotion for it, I think, so the title jumped out at me. It's a book about eating in the 'weird science and history of aspects thereof' sense. The whole thing was super interesting - I read a lot of it while eating dinner, and eagerly recounted half of it when calling my parents this week - though like many pop science books, the author was trying way too hard to seem funny and clever and needs to dial it back by a third.
My favorite parts were probably the sections about chewing. Firstly because 'fletcherizing' (chewing your food to absolute death under the pseudoscientific idea that it will magically extract more nutrients) guy was hilarious to read about, and secondly for the discussion on chewing styles. I sometimes worry that I don't chew my food enough and gulp it down too fast, so it was somewhat reassuring to read that humans naturally vary a lot in how and how much they chew food.
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