{"id":189,"date":"2014-03-22T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T10:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=189"},"modified":"2014-03-22T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T10:23:34","slug":"this-week-i-learned-culinary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2014\/03\/this-week-i-learned-culinary-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned: Culinary Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m updating this less frequently than I thought I would, but the bright side is that gives me time to cherry-pick the very best links! Today&#8217;s crop are all great:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.rollingstone.com\/culture\/news\/bill-gates-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140313\">Here is an excellent interview with Bill Gates<\/a>, touching on Microsoft, philanthropy, and how to better the world. If I had to pick the single best out of the bunch, this would be it.<\/li>\n<li>Who had richer parents &#8212; doctors, teachers, lawyers, or artists? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2014\/03\/18\/289013884\/who-had-richer-parents-doctors-or-arists\">The answer might surprise you<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Seafood might be yummy, but &#8212; while alive &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/do-lobsters-and-other-invertebrates-feel-pain-new-research-has-some-answers\/2014\/03\/07\/f026ea9e-9e59-11e3-b8d8-94577ff66b28_story.html?tid=pm_pop\">did those creatures feel pain<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of yummy, <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/03\/07\/last-night-i-ate-a-computer-generated-meal-it-was-fantastic\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29\">it turns out computers can come up with appealing recipes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Falling microwave sales offer <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/187743\/the-slow-death-of-the-microwave\/\">an interesting window<\/a> onto changing cultural and culinary preferences. (What&#8217;s eating the microwaves&#8217; lunch? Toaster ovens.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m updating this less frequently than I thought I would, but the bright side is that gives me time to cherry-pick the very best links! Today&#8217;s crop are all great: &nbsp; Here is an excellent interview with Bill Gates, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2014\/03\/this-week-i-learned-culinary-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}