This episode is about bugs, bugs as food, and then global cuisines and what happens to foods that are transposed outside of their original habitat.

Recorded on 24 May 2020, before Bon Appetit imploded.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera" rel="nofollow">Hemiptera</a>

<a href="https://www.monkeymind.xyz/002" rel="nofollow">On Data Formats and Speciation</a>

<a href="https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/speech-jammer/" rel="nofollow">Speech Jammer</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease" rel="nofollow">Chagas disease</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_bug" rel="nofollow">Wheel bug</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas" rel="nofollow">Periodical cicadas</a>

<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/110/17/6919" rel="nofollow">Independent divergence of 13- and 17-y life cycles among three periodical cicada lineages</a>

<a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/cave-dwellers-1938-33966" rel="nofollow">Cave Dwellers, 1938</a>

<a href="https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/moths-come-out-enjoy-weather" rel="nofollow">Moths come out to enjoy the weather</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider" rel="nofollow">Fried spider</a>

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6196?af=R&fbclid=IwAR3asLUcYtKBBINm-XRgmWmVDlHEE_QS-J19_YNsxl_w0eF9hLf9vo04jzo" rel="nofollow">Competition with insectivorous ants as a contributor to low songbird diversity at low elevations in the eastern Himalaya</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled_egg#Soft-boiled_eggs" rel="nofollow">Boiled eggs &gt; Soft-boiled eggs</a>

<a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/The-Bon-Appetit-test-kitchen-s-race-problem-15002875.php" rel="nofollow">The Bon Appetit test kitchen&#39;s race problem</a>

<a href="https://www.eater.com/platform/amp/2020/5/20/21262304/global-pantry-alison-roman-bon-appetit?fbclid=IwAR04BFpi9pCbEoKIPG7THZ47PduSbvjBjFdoeKZ6e4_8bnd5Ks9jqQdB6DI" rel="nofollow">Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the &#39;Global Pantry&#39; Problem</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" rel="nofollow">7 (New York City Subway service)</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandanus_amaryllifolius" rel="nofollow">Pandanus amaryllifolius</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangyuan_(food)" rel="nofollow">Tangyuan (food)</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_sauce" rel="nofollow">Peanut sauce</a>

Episode 008: Babies are really sh*tty neural nets

We jump around from topic to topic with the discipline of a monkey mind. Birds, linguistics, computing and grad school may feature disproportionately.