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Since 1890, there have been 27 documented humans killed by mountain lions in North America. Cows, by comparison, kill about 20 people each year.

From Craig Childs at The Last Word on Nothing via The Browser.

Coding - went sideways, invented a library and funcitons within that library that seemed plausible.. but weren’t real

Writing an update email to Stripe Apps developers, which I then proof read. It was fine! Saved me probably 10 minutes.

Taking a complicated sql query a data scientist had written last year and rewriting it so I could get the list of one particular set users that made up one of the sums; it was able to this for me while I was in a meeting. Saved me ~20 minutes (more likely, I never would’ve made the time to do this task).

Asking it for feedback on PRDs - didn’t really get much here

Having it make a company wide email more pithy (accepted some of the suggestions)

Making 1 email to individuals in a group into 7 unique emails with the same message

Learning German

A recipe for Thai Curry in a crockpot

Or at least make sure there is really good ventilation.

According to a study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “almost 13% of current childhood asthma in the US is attributable to gas stove use.”

One of the ideas that I think is underrated is the impact of clean air and clean water. It seems like every study I see points in the same direction.

75% of people aged 17-25 suffer from eco-anxiety, according to Mary Sherman. Found via Sean Arians.

The cinnamon we eat in the US today is a cheap substitute of the one that was popular in the US prior to the Vietnam war. From USA Today:

In the 1950s, most of the cinnamon Americans consumed was the Saigon variety from Vietnam. Saigon cinnamon – the peeled and ground inner bark of an evergreen tree native to mainland Southeast Asia – has a rich and slightly spicy flavor thanks to high levels of essential oils and a flavonoid called cinnemaldehyde. When the U.S. government imposed a trade embargo on Vietnam beginning in 1964, Saigon cinnamon became almost impossible to import, and spice sellers were forced to find another way to fill American cupboards.

They chose and Indonesian variety, Korintje, that is more bitter and has less depth. Even though the trade embargo has ended, the store-brand cinnamon we use has not recovered.

Commercially available ground cinnamon – almost always the Indonesian Korintje variety – is often mixed with fillers. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Spices Research used a process called DNA barcoding to test market samples. They found that 70% contained powdered beechnut husk, ground hazelnut or almond shell dust, dyed and aromatized using cinnamaldehyde and marketed as cinnamon.

Found via Hayden Higgins.