Have you ever tried aged sushi? An ancient form of sushi requires packing rice inside salty fish carcasses and aging them for months. The fermentation makes the sushi taste like cheese/curd. Another kind of sushi aged for almost 30 years becomes so decomposed that it becomes more like a thick gruel. Modern sushi is a relatively recent addition to Japanese cuisine. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
