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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 2/7/2023: The KTK SOTU Cafe [1]

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Date: 2023-02-07  

First up: a snack! Thanks to Magnifico’s OND for the story of the origin of Tater Tots as an effort to use the food waste from frozen french-fry cutting. Now, the Tots reach their apotheosis as “Totchos”. [3:09]

February 7 is Periodic Table Day, in honor of the publishing of John Newlands’ periodic table on this date in 1863. As with many such discoveries, it was grounded in other work, and there was more to be learned after that, before the table reached its current configuration. More on the holiday here.

The self-described “queer science educators” of ASAPScience have a Periodic Table Song that is NOT the Tom Lehrer song, but owes its music to Offenbach rather than Gilbert and Sullivan. [3:05]

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I’ll close with a very interesting SciShow video, with my fave rotating host, Rose Bear Don’t Walk (Yale ‘16), an ethnobotanist. Before that video, though, I’m going to add this short interview in which she says more about herself as a Salish scientist, because I think it’s worth knowing. [4:00]

(See also her mom, Eldena Bear Don’t Walk, whereby you can find links to her grandparents, Urban and Marjorie. It’s an impressive family.)

Anyway: I like her and I also think this is fascinating information on trees’ role in creating weather. (Her hat says “You Are on Native Land”.) [7:19]

Added later: I see that Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon is now playing Mama Morton in Chicago on Broadway. That’s sure to give some fascists the fantods. Here’s an interview with Jinkx. [8:08]

New from humorist Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker: Dick Cheney Offers to Shoot Down Future Balloons:

JACKSON HOLE (The Borowitz Report)—Demonstrating his commitment to keeping America secure, former Vice-President Dick Cheney has offered to shoot down all future balloons that venture into U.S. airspace. “I haven’t touched my hunting rifle in a few years, but handling a gun is like riding a bicycle,” he said. “You just pick it up, and, blammo!” [...]

All right, then, off you go to watch the SOTU! No doubt I’ll be hanging out here in the thread.

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