{"id":10467,"date":"2015-07-05T18:51:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T01:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2015-07-05T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T01:51:31","slug":"independence-weekend-news-chum-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10467","title":{"rendered":"Independence Weekend News Chum Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8131\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px; border: 1px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stew.jpg\" alt=\"Observation Stew\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/>It&#8217;s been stewing on the stove for two weeks because I&#8217;ve been so busy. Let&#8217;s hope it is still tasty and flavor-right. Here&#8217;s your news chum stew for the last two weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Going For a Ride in my Car-Car<\/strong>. As you probably know, I&#8217;m in a vanpool. So when I saw a headline that read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/5\/20\/8629881\/commuting-health-happiness\">Long commutes make you fat, tired, and miserable<\/a>&#8220;, I was curious. The article notes that spending more than two hours of your day commuting \u2014 as <a href=\"http:\/\/traveltrends.transportation.org\/Documents\/CA11-4.pdf\">8.3 percent<\/a> of American workers now do \u2014 will probably make you miserable. But there&#8217;s research that suggests doing it with other people will make it far less unbearable. As for the &#8220;fat&#8221;, it isn&#8217;t the commute that does it. Rather, it was the fact that commuters were less likely to get exercise. When you get home after a long commute, you&#8217;re too beat to exercise.\u00a0 Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/johnnycab-automation-paradox-pt-2\/\">add to the fact that the touted &#8220;driverless&#8221; cars may mean we will be willing to commute longer &#8212; alone<\/a> &#8212; and&#8230; well&#8230; you do the math.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sorting it Out<\/strong>. Penn and Teller once did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0771119\/\">an episode of Bullshit noting that people really want to recycle, even if it is meaningless separation<\/a>. It turns out that our not sorting &#8212; that is, putting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/american-recycling-is-stalling-and-the-big-blue-bin-is-one-reason-why\/2015\/06\/20\/914735e4-1610-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html\">all recyclables into a single blue bin, is leading to recycling stalling in America<\/a>. The cost to separate is so high, and the value-return for recyclables is so low, that it is cheaper to make new. What a waste&#8230; but then again, we often forget we need to waste a lot of energy to recycle. There is a better solution. Use less in the first place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Out, Out, Damn USB.<\/strong> Have you ever tried to get Windows to eject a USB device, but it keeps refusing. Here&#8217;s a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2927972\/when-windows-refuses-to-eject-mass-storage-5-ways-to-safely-remove-a-usb-drive.html#tk.rss_all\">what to do when Windows is recalcitrant<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graphic Subtleties. <\/strong>You may not have noticed it, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/07\/01\/facebook-new-logo\/?ncid=rss_truncated\">Facebook is sporting a new logo<\/a>. Look closely. Its subtle.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Celiac Disease Riddles<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s an interesting article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/06\/150630080433.htm\">celiac disease, where they may have found the underlying culprit<\/a>. It turns out that it is an immune response, and the heredity pattern with celiac disease is very similar to the pattern with other autoimmune diseases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food and Fun<\/strong>. Three interesting food related articles. The first explores <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/06\/28\/417461343\/do-try-this-at-home-hacking-ribs-in-the-pressure-cooker?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=thesalt\">how to cook ribs in the pressure cooker<\/a>. The second talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/authoritynutrition.com\/10-super-healthy-high-fat-foods\/\">high fat foods that might be healthy for you<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The last looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2015\/06\/29\/must_eats_of_sfv.php\">outstanding mom and pop restaurants in the San Fernando Valley<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drought Landscaping<\/strong>. If you live in California, you&#8217;ve probably seen a major visual effect of the drought: people replacing their lawns with either plastic grass or gravel. We know plastic grass is bad &#8212; <del>you can&#8217;t smoke it<\/del> it is isn&#8217;t porous, and prevents water from being absorbed into the water table. But it turns out gravel is equally bad. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/turf-terminators-has-gotten-rich-turning-yards-into-gravel-but-is-it-creating-blight-5737216\">What&#8217;s worse is one company, Turf Terminators, has made a business taking rebates and making yards ugly<\/a>. If we go to xeriscaping, I&#8217;d like something prettier than gravel, except perhaps in selected paths.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bubble Wrap No More<\/strong>. Do you enjoy popping bubble wrap? Soon you might not be able to do so. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/revamped-bubble-wrap-loses-its-pop-1435689665?mod=e2fb\">The company behind Bubble Wrap, sealed air, is exploring a new wrap that is shipped flat and inflated on site<\/a>. There&#8217;s a major advantage to this: shipping costs depend on size of the package, and inflated bubble wrap rolls are too expensive to ship distances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPod Solutions<\/strong>. Why, oh why, can&#8217;t Apple make an iPod with an SD slot. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/63870\/20150627\/sandisks-ultra-200gb-microsd-card-now-for-salet-at-amazon-for-240.htm\">200GB storage is getting affordable<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Underwriters Lab for Cybersecurity.<\/strong> Mudge has left Google to try to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Passcode\/Passcode-Voices\/2015\/0701\/Opinion-An-Underwriters-Laboratories-for-cybersecurity-is-long-overdue\">an Underwriters Laboratory for Cybsersecurity<\/a>. The problem is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niap-ccevs.org\/index.cfm?&amp;CFID=37779930&amp;CFTOKEN=f710aed69af7a6a9-CA7FD799-93EB-0884-3488CF31063676E0\">we already have one<\/a>.\u00a0 What&#8217;s worse is that most people don&#8217;t know about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been stewing on the stove for two weeks because I&#8217;ve been so busy. Let&#8217;s hope it is still tasty and flavor-right. Here&#8217;s your news chum stew for the last two weeks: Going For a Ride in my Car-Car. As you probably know, I&#8217;m in a vanpool. So when I saw a headline that read <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10467\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,71,56,98,15],"tags":[138,68,290,415],"class_list":["post-10467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-food","category-news-chum","category-security","category-social-networking","tag-california","tag-gluten-free","tag-ipod","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}