Ways to eat octopus

If you’re a fan of octopus doughnuts, head for Osaka, a city that some believe to be the best eating city in the world. My eating is limited to the U.S. and Canada, but it’s always good to travel inside your head:

I booked my flight soon after and found a city fit to burst with incredible places to eat, from the dazzling depichika basement food halls (the greatest food shows on earth), to the exuberant restaurant quarter of Dotonbori, to the top end places like Kahala, a tiny, exclusive counter restaurant beloved of Tetsuya Wakada.

I have alternative energy on my mind after visiting Francis Ladd’s wind turbine. Here’s a report on someone’s solar installation:

Finally: our electricity meter is now running backwards! Southern Solar put our nine lovely solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in place on the flat roof on Monday, each in a sloping weighted bed and looking aerodynamically safe for our windy corner.

Peak phosphorous? Yes, they say it’s coming. The link above may be more in depth than you care to plunge, but you might want to listen to this audio documentary here:

All modern agricultural systems are dependent on continual inputs of phosphate fertilizers derived from phosphate rock. Yet this is relying on a finite resource and current reserves could be depleted this century. More concerning is that before that point is reached, we will see a global peak in phosphate rock reserves, estimated to occur in the next 30 years.

Get fit in six minutes a week? Impossible? Bring on the hurt:

Those six minutes, if they’re to be effective, must hurt. “We describe it as an ‘all-out’ effort,” Gibala says. You’ll be straying “well out of your comfort zone.” That level of discomfort makes some activities better-suited to intense training than others.

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