Inside Sun Noodle, the Secret Weapon of America's Best Ramen Shops - Eater Features There were only about three or four ramen shops on Oahu when Hidehito Uki founded Sun Noodle in 1981. Ramen in America was pretty much just a cup of noodles you cook in the microwave. Uki — who had come to Hawaii from Japan to make and sell fresh ramen noodles — wondered how he could ever be successful. Now, ramen shops have proliferated in cities from Los Angeles and New York to DC, Chicago, and even Milwaukee. People stand in line for ramen. Behind the scenes of the so-called ramen boom of recent years is Sun Noodle. Sun Noodle's success runs parallel to the rise of ramen in America, sometimes fueling the ramen craze and always being fueled by the ramen craze. Sun Noodle Begins A trip to Hawaii was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to an 19-year-old Hidehito Uki. Hidehito arrived in Honolulu in 1981. There were about 20 noodle manufacturers on the island of Oahu at the time, mostly churning out saimin noodles. Getting that first customer did turn out to be a challenge. Ramen Goes Boom
UC's Napolitano throws cold water on the online education craze - LA Times University of California President Janet Napolitano struck a rare blow for rational education practice this week by pushing back strongly against the craze for online learning courses. Online education isn't a panacea, she said; it's not for everyone, it's not cheap, and if it's done right it may not even save money. Are you listening, Gov. Napolitano, who took over at UC in September, made her remarks Monday during an appearance sponsored by the Public Policy Institute of California. Asked by PPIC President Mark Baldassare about UC initiatives in the online space, Napolitano moved promptly to separate fact from fantasy. For higher education, she said, "It's not a silver bullet, the way it was originally portrayed to be. As for preparing the courses, "if they're really going to be top-quality, that's an investment as well." That might come as a real disappointment for Gov. A good example is Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Obamacare success stories you haven't read
How Chocolate Might Save The Planet : Krulwich Wonders... When you unwrap it, break off a piece and stick it in your mouth, it doesn't remind you of the pyramids, a suspension bridge or a skyscraper; but chocolate, says materials scientist Mark Miodownik, "is one of our greatest engineering creations." True, it begins with a cocoa bean plucked from a tree. But no one would eat a raw cocoa bean. Robert Krulwich/NPR But cut it, leave it, roast it, tinker with it for a couple of centuries (and add sugar) ... ... and cocoa beans can be totally transformed. Chocolate's Secret Chocolate bars have a circus trick, an "Oh, my" moment: They're solid when you unwrap them. The secret ingredient is cocoa butter, stored in the form of large molecules called triglycerides that come with three (thus the "tri") prongs. ... or more tightly, like this ... ... or ( I'm redrawing this from Mark's book) more richly intermeshed, like this: The denser the package, the harder the chocolate. Is Chocolate Better Than Kissing? People (it's no secret) really like chocolate.
Calling Me a Terrorist Is Not Flirting The author Karaoke night used to be my jam. Back in the day, my best friend and I used go to the only bar in my small hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area and watch the regulars slur along to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest.” One night, after hours of watching an older man named Victor sway and scream into a microphone, we went next door to a late night diner to decompress over grilled cheese. We had just started eating our food when two guys in cowboy hats came over to talk to us. They had a Southern twang, but insisted they were Californians. The quieter one started chatting with me and asked where I was originally from. It was a combination of his blatant ignorance and his crater face under the fluorescent lighting, but I realized I’d had enough. Every single girl knows what it’s like to be creeped on. Flirty racism has been around since the dawn of time, when asshole cavemen tried to offend their potential mates all the way into the bedroom.
Conservative Christian Rewrites Harry Potter So Her Kids Won’t Turn Into Witches While our friends in the world of right-wing politics and their allies on hillbilly television like Phil Robertson spend their time spouting off Jesus fan fiction, one woman has taken a different approach toward indoctrinating her children into a deluded, self-serving, hateful worldview: Harry F@#$ing Potter. “Grace Ann,” who has thus far completed six chapters of her own version of Harry Potter, explained her motivation: her children want to read Harry Potter, but she doesn’t want them “turning into witches.” “Hello, friends! My name is Grace Ann. I’m new to this whole fanfiction thing; but recently, I’ve encountered a problem that I believe this is the solution to. My little ones have been asking to read the Harry Potter books; and of course I’m happy for them to be reading; but I don’t want them turning into witches! Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Harry Potter who lived under the stairs in a house on Privet Drive with his aunt and uncle. Hagrid beamed widely.
"Why Asian Americans Might Not Talk About Ferguson" by Liz Lin - The Salt Collective Two years ago, I found myself trying to break into my friends’ apartment. I had coordinated their wedding a few days earlier, and they had since departed for their honeymoon. A box from the wedding was supposed to go to one of the guests, only to end up in their apartment. My friends had warned me that the key had a tendency to stick, though that proved to be an understatement. The request was ridiculous, I knew: I had never seen this person before. Much to my surprise, he did — no questions asked. As I entered the apartment and started looking for the box, I was incredulous — and I was never more aware of the privileges I have as an Asian American woman. Would this person have ever let me into the apartment if I were a black man? Yes, I experience a host of disadvantages as an Asian American woman, but I can’t deny that I also have a number of privileges — one of which is that no one ever suspects me of wrongdoing. Race is complicated for us. So let me ask you: What do you need to do?
Chocolate Tempering: How To Temper Chocolate How do you temper chocolate, and why do you do it? The short answer is that chemically, chocolate is composed of lots of different little crystals (six to be exact) but the desirable ones are called beta crystals. The development and formation of these beta crystals are what makes well-tempered chocolate. If the cocoa butter rises to the surface, some people commonly think their chocolate has gotten moldy and toss it out. If you’ve done that, you’ve tossed out perfectly good, but unattractive, chocolate. As you can see, there is a dull white sheen on the surface of this piece of chocolate. Pages and volumes of technical research have been written about tempering chocolate, but here are the main reasons for all you home cooks out there: As I’ve said, you don’t need to temper chocolate if you’re going to bake a chocolate cake or make chocolate ice cream. There are many different methods for tempering chocolate. I developed a simple 3-step method that’s a snap for home cooks. Chocolate FAQs
States Preaching Small Government Most Dependent On Federal Government The map above is striking. It is a perfect illustration that politics and facts at times seem mutually exclusive. In short, with just a few exceptions, the states whose politicians preach small government are much more dependent on it than other states. States in green or closer to green on the map above are less dependent on the federal government. John S Kiernan, a senior writer & editor at Evolution Finance wrote an excellent piece on state federal government dependency. The extent to which the average American’s tax burden would vary based on his state of residence represents a significant point of differentiation between state economies. The conclusion of the report is something many have written about over the last several years; Red States by far are more dependent on the federal government and are poorer. Do they really want a small federal government? Articles like this are very important. LIKE My Facebook Page – Visit My Blog: EgbertoWillies.com Summary Article Name Author
Slate, you’re doing it wrong There’s a map that Slate made recently that’s been getting a lot of shares. The map is part of a post on language diversity, and it shows the top language in each state other than English or Spanish. We dug a little deeper, and found a few problems. First, looking at the most recent American Community Survey data,* we find more Asian languages in the top spot than Slate found. Being interested in Asian American and Pacific Islander data, we were also curious to see the top Asian or Pacific Islander language in each state. Still, there is a deeper problem with the Slate chart than just getting the original numbers right. And when we look specifically at language need, we find that outside of Spanish, Asian language needs are at the top of the list in many more states. And, for those who are curious what this list of top language need would look like if we only looked at Asian languages, we get this. So, there you go.
Could A 'Barbie' Get Real? What A Healthy Fashion Doll Looks Like : Shots - Health News hide captionLook familiar? Artist Nickolay Lamm designed a doll to look like the average 19-year-old walking — or running — on the street. Courtesy of Lammily Look familiar? Artist Nickolay Lamm designed a doll to look like the average 19-year-old walking — or running — on the street. For decades, the Barbie doll has been slammed by parents for promoting an unhealthy female body image. So why do we keep offering girls bone-thin dolls like Barbie and the popular Monster High crew, asks artist Nickolay Lamm? hide captionNo comparison: While the shape of Mattel's Barbie was inspired by a German sex toy, Lamm's concept reflects the dimensions of actual young women in the United States. No comparison: While the shape of Mattel's Barbie was inspired by a German sex toy, Lamm's concept reflects the dimensions of actual young women in the United States. He thinks it's time for a Barbie to get real. "Then I smoothed out some of the details," Lamm, 25, tells Shots. Don't worry, though.
The Nation That Elects The Most Women Is ... : Parallels hide captionRwandan President Paul Kagame takes part in a conference on the role of women at the nation's Parliament in the capital, Kigali, in 2010. Women in Rwanda account for 64 percent of the lower house of Parliament — a higher percentage than in any other country. Jason Straziuso/AP Rwandan President Paul Kagame takes part in a conference on the role of women at the nation's Parliament in the capital, Kigali, in 2010. As Rwanda began to rebuild itself from the ashes of the 1994 genocide, something unexpected happened: Women began playing a much more influential role on many fronts, including politics. Traditions that had limited women previously were cast aside, and President Paul Kagame also actively pushed for women to be in more prominent positions. Today, women make up 64 percent of the country's lower house of Parliament — a far higher percentage than in any other nation, according to figures compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. A Network Of Female Leaders "I said, 'Sure.
A look at the landscape of pathway programs for international students run in cooperation with for-profit partners @insidehighered TAMPA, Fla. – The course: AMS 2270, 20th Century American Culture. The day’s lecture: the Civil Rights movement. The composition of the class: one-third American students, two-thirds international. The international students are enrolled in a pathway program here at the University of South Florida, one of a growing number of such programs that permit international students to take a mix of credit-bearing academic and English as a second language courses despite lacking the English language test scores required for direct admission. Over and over again in interviews, international students say this is their hardest course. It is also a lecture-based course. Grounds said that in teaching the class, she is more careful of her choice of words and purposely employs such ESL-friendly teaching strategies as repeating words and writing key phrases on the board. Pathway Programs Pop Up New programs keep popping up. Mechanisms for academic oversight also vary. 'A Big Leap’ ‘A Proving Ground’
How Dancers Think When They Dance ‹ TERP by David Kohn | photo by Toni Gauthier Neuroscientists haven’t really explored how movement and thought interact, largely because it’s hard for anyone to leap, twist and turn while lying flat in an MRI tube, or connected to a tangle of wires. But with the help of new mobile brain imaging technology, a Maryland researcher now has the beginnings of an answer. Karen Bradley, an associate professor in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, and University of Houston neuroscientist Jose Contreras-Vidal, formerly an associate professor of kinesiology at Maryland, analyzed dancers’ brain signals as they thought about dancing and as they performed. The researchers found that dancers use multiple parts of the brain simultaneously, including those involved in higher-order decision-making, as well as parts that play a role in controlling and planning movement. Researchers place a brainwave measurement cap on one of the dancers participating in the study. Professor Karen Bradley.
To Advance Education, We Must First Reimagine Society Why haven’t education reform efforts amounted to much? Because they start with the wrong problem, says John Abbott, director of the 21st Century Learning Initiative. Because disaffection with the education system reflects a much deeper societal malaise, it’s imperative that we first figure out what kind of world we really want: a world populated by responsible adults who thrive on interdependence and community, or a world of “customers” who feel dependent on products, services, and authority figures, and don’t take full responsibility for their actions? The answer, he says, will point to the changes needed in all three pillars of education — schools, families, and communities. As Abbott sees it, the need for reflection has never been greater. Spurred by technological advances, “civilization is on the cusp of a metamorphosis,” he says, that will lead either to societal collapse and chaos, or to a resurgence of liberty, community, and ethics. Re-Imagining Society First, Education Second