CK Links--Friday June 5, 2015

Links from around the internet!

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Homemade laughably cheap Mustard. (Addicted to Canning)

Delicious homemade Olive and Feta Vinaigrette. (Closet Cooking)

A quick guide to perfect eggs. (Mark’s Daily Apple)

Related: How to jazz up your morning eggs. And: An easier way to crack an egg.

The very action of telling people "you can't have large sodas" makes them want large sodas even more, which, weirdly, makes banning large sodas even more costly in terms of foregone consumer welfare. (Jayson Lusk)

Why don't French kids have ADHD? (Psychology Today)

What 9,000 years of selective breeding have done to corn, peaches, watermelons and other crops. (Vox)

Interesting letter to the editor of an Australian paper that touches on the trade-off between safe "sell-by" dates and food waste. (Sunshine Coast Daily)

"Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness." (Planet Infowars) See also the original source of this quote from the Editor of The Lancet here.

What happens when a professor writes a caricature of university "trigger warning" activists... and they turn around and instantaneously prove her caricature 100% correct? (Talking Points Memo)

Is the market about to crash? (A Wealth of Common Sense)

On keeping voicemails. (ProPublica)


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