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Thursday, January 25, 2007
The best four coffees in Central Texas
Drinks: What lingered on the tongue during our long tour for “10,000 Coffee Shops”?
Java Dive: This Lakeway joint makes the most luxurious espresso-based drinks we tasted.
Pacha: On multiple visits, complex coffee with a cultural context.
Mozart’s: Smelled and tasted so fresh and toasty, it was like carrying a mini-coffee roaster out the door,
Casa do Brasil:
“Casa Brasil would have to win out as my favorite for having both great coffee and a great atmosphere. (The best latte was at Cafe do Brasil.)” — co-writer Perry Gettelman
For more information, see the big XL coffee package this week and next.
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Brokeback rams?
The Gay Life: Did our favorite bisexual sheep herders know this: Eight percent of rams seek sex exclusively with other rams.
As reported in The New York Times, a scientist named Charles Roselli sought to find out why there are gay sheep.
His research was subsequently misinterpreted by the media and the blogosphere (was he trying to cure the sheep, the madman?!).
I have spent much of my professional life fighting the casual way that the media treats science and social science, almost always omitting the context and methods for the research. This horror story is instructive.
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