Sep. 25th, 2022

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Like many people, I don't cook meals from scratch very often. I can! My parents viewed cooking as a basic skill that everyone needs to know, so they both taught me themselves and had me do cooking in 4-H. (4-H is very good at encouraging children to build skill sets in whatever area they're doing projects/competing in, so that if you start as a pre-teen and continue on through High School you will end up with a very complete skill set in $area, whether that's cooking or photography or raising/showing animals or sewing or woodworking or one of a million other subjects. If you have kids and you live in the US, I highly recommend seeing if there is a 4-H club in your area because your kid will learn so much.)

But I don't often choose to cook. I eat a small range of basic, low-prep foods, but I (literally) spice things up so that a) they taste better and b) they don't get monotonous. But I know how to do so because I know what I like from learning to cook a wide variety of things, and a lot of people who eat the same way I do don't have that skill. So here's a cheat sheet.

First of all, you have to learn what spices you like )
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We need power. Electricity isn't just about convenience. Very few things are as effective at lifting whole communities out of poverty as cheap and abundant electricity is, and electricity powers so many things that make our lives healthier and better. But every source of power has drawbacks. Some are environmental (fossil fuels!) and others don't scale well or require power storage that we're not currently capable of doing on a large enough scale (renewables). Here's a really interesting look at power production on a large scale, which method has the fewest drawbacks, and why we're so scared of nuclear power.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nuclear-power-isnt-perfect-is-it-good-enough/

(Their sources and resources are linked here.)

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