#michael schulson

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We take Uncorked: Wine-Business-Life on the road to Alpen Rose for a wide-open conversation with chef-restaurateur Michael Schulson. Michael traces his path from his Nana’s matzo ball soup on Long Island to Philly institutions like Le Bec-Fin and Susanna Foo, then to Stephen Starr openings (Buddakan, Pod) and his own breakout with Izakaya at Borgata and Sampan in Center City. For more, click here

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Prunella Opening Soon in Midtown Village

Prunella by @MichaelSchulson Opening Soon in Midtown Village 🍕

Prunella, a new restaurant from Michael Schulson coming to Midtown Village at the corner of 13th and Sansom. Prunella will open for nightly dinner on Wednesday, March 23 and serve American-style pizza, pasta, fresh vegetables and crudo, along with a few larger plates. It will be a casual neighborhood spot with plentiful bar seating and cafe tables. Looking forward to this bright, airy addition to…

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If the internet is addictive, why don’t we regulate it? — Michael Schulson — Aeon Essays

Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos?

"Skinner would randomly vary the intervals between food availability. One time there'd be food available again in 60 seconds. The next, it might be after five seconds, or 50 seconds, or 200 seconds. Under these unstable conditions, the pigeons went nuts. They'd peck and peck. One pigeon hit the Plexiglas 2.5 times per second for 16 hours. Another tapped 87,000 times over the course of 14 hours, getting a reward less than 1 per cent of the time." These pigeons were part of one of B.F. Skinner's psychology experiments. Flash forward a few years. You're the one pecking. And while the pigeons were after food, you're refreshing your email. Aeon's Michael Schulson: User Behavior. (via NextDraft)

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“BREW YOUR LUNCH”

“To help hack this latest cubicle-cuisine indignity, we asked five top chefs to concoct upgrades.”

1/5

Miguel Trinidad

George Mendes

Ford Fry

Jenn Louis

Michael Schulson

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/five-chefs-upgrade-your-k-cup-chicken-soup

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For centuries, the Catholic Church was the main patron of automata—elaborate mechanisms, often driven by springs, that were the precursors to present-day robots. “Not only did automata appear first and most commonly in churches and cathedrals, the idea as well as the technology of human-machinery was indigenously Catholic,” writes Stanford’s Jessica Riskin in her marvelous essay, “Machines in the Garden.” Automata, according to Riskin, “peopled the landscape of late medieval and early modern Europe,” which was “positively humming with mechanical vitality.” Church-commissioned clockmakers built mechanical angels and demons to decorate altars; “automaton Christs—muttering, grimacing, blinking on the cross—were especially popular.” Some churches even had automatic heretics. A mechanical moor’s head once hung in the cathedral in Barcelona, the expression on its face changing with the intensity of the organ music.

Michael Schulson, 'What Robot Theology Can Tell Us about Ourselves’ (2014), Religion Dispatches

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More on Whole Foods and pseudoscience

notexactly: But can I still go to Whole Foods for De Cecco pasta because I actually like the brand? :|

» SFB says: Yes, as long as I can get the hookup on my Rice Dream ice cream-like substance and still buy my Dr. Bronner's, even if the bottle gets a tad preachy and is arguably guilty of what the post implies.

But here's the point I'd like to make on that Daily Beast post. GMOs are definitely a huge issue nowadays for a lot of people. I feel like, reading between the lines of the post, Schulson is essentially calling people silly for being concerned that their food might have GMOs. I think there's a valid point about raising questions about such foods, simply because they did in fact take over the food supply rather quickly and without very much input from consumers. That doesn't mean it's good or bad, but his stance on the issue is offered only in passing despite the criticism offered.

I'd like to see Schulson do a follow-up piece on this issue, which probably needs to be unpacked separately and needs more research and less ranting. (FWIW, a strong anti-GMO proponent did change his stance not too long ago, comparing his former stance to being a climate change denier.) — Ernie @ SFB