Chris Chan
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Curious Cook: Lessons in structure (opens the original)
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We live surrounded by structure. It is there in the buildings we walk through, the cars we drive, the railway networks and city grids we take for granted, and the timetables we quietly obey. But for every visible wall and walkway, there are unseen counterparts. Structures that govern societies, institutions, habits, and relationships are often invisible, yet they are just as rigid as buildings. As Marshall McLuhan observed, the fish does not see the water in which it swims. We do not notice thes
Curious Cook: The myth of infinite water, part 2 (opens the original)
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As humans take water out of the system faster than the hydrological cycle can replenish it, we are also polluting our water with chemical cocktails that water treatment plants were never designed to handle. Modern water treatment is built around the contaminants of the mid-twentieth century: sediment, bacteria, and other organic matter that makes water cloudy and unsafe. Add a coagulant, let it settle, run it through sand filters, add chlorine. For most of the 20th century, that was enough.
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