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SciTechDaily reported on a new study published by researches at my Sydney alma mater about the impact surveillance, or the feeling of being watched, had on their sensory perceptions: Nori (Japanese: 海苔) is a dried edible seaweed used in Japanese cuisine, usually made from species of the red algae genus Pyropia, including P. yezoensis and P....

This has become a highlight of the season each year. I was going to say it’s an Easter Egg, but that’s another time of year. I almost don’t want to log out, because after Xmas they return to regular chests. Oh well :’). By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-12-26.

I defer to the expertise of James and James when they say they approach coffee in a certain way. But I think I might be taking a different tack from how Hoffey Coffee brews with the Clever Coffee Dripper, the steep and release brewer from Taiwan for which I now harbour more than a slight obsession. I talked about the Clever Coffee Dripper at the...

Clara and I took a train into the CBD earlier this week to tour all the decorations. It was much cooler than the summer heatwave we’d had a week earlier which was lovely… though we still saw two women in bikini tops and massive Santa hats. Because Australian summer! Here we are at Martin Place, not that far from the infamous fountain from The...

Clara and I bought a white Baratza Encore ESP grinder last month on special, to celebrate moving into our new home. It replaced this no-name blade grinder that had been my daily driver for more than a decade: I bought this for $10 at a big box store back in the early 2010s, around the time I was developing an interest in homebrew coffee. I poured...