My Word with Douglas E. Welch

Because nothing’s better than Mom’s cooking. Mama Lam stopped by the BuzzFeed office to teach Inga how to make the delicious steamed buns that were featured in Pixar’s Bao!

Rocket scientist-turned-coppersmith Jim Hamann’s devotion to cookware came from a beautiful vintage pot he found on a trip to France. After starting a business restoring copper pots and pans for others, he decided to begin handcrafting his own, honoring the methods and quality of the centuries-old tradition at his company Duparquet Copper Cookware.

The United States of America. The USA. America. The Land of the Free. These are just some of the names for that continental sized nation which Alaska wishes it could touch. You’ll be surprised to know that other names were considered for the new nation during the American Revolution against Britain and that a name wasn’t settled on until the Constitutional Congress. Until other ideas, like Columbia or Fredonia were proposed. So why did the Founding Fathers choose the name ‘United States of America’.

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Trying to create some flocking behaviour, and getting a little distracted by spirals along the way…

Trace the 9,000 year old history of the domestication of corn, or maize, and its effects on global agriculture.

Corn currently accounts for more than one tenth of our global crop production. And over 99% of cultivated corn is the exact same type: Yellow Dent #2. This means that humans grow more Yellow Dent #2 than any other plant on the planet. So how did this single variety of this single plant become the biggest success story in agricultural history? Chris Kniesly investigates the rise of this wonder-crop.

Lesson by Chris A. Kniesly, directed by Artrake Studio.

Watch The history of the world according to corn – Chris A. Kniesly via TedEd on YouTube

We were doing one of our “virtual drinks and dinner” with friends from Denver last night and, as always, our conversation turned to what shows we were watching. I created this list for them and figured I would share it here, too. The first section is Netflix and the second are some of my favorite YouTube channels. — Douglas

• Midnight Diner
• Abstract
• The Repair Shop
• Call My Agent
• The Good Place
• Sweet Toothed Salaryman
• Grace and Frankie
• Movies That Made Us
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• Gresham College Lectures
• World War II week-by-week
• History Matters
• Lockpicking Lawyer
• Tom Scott
• Computerphile
• Jun’s Kitchen
• The 8-Bit Guy