* On bicycle
* 41.85935, 12.483711
* Thursday 18 January 2024
* 422.47 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

I was out on the bicycle running errands, so it was an extra delight to bag a rabbit-quest.

Eat This Newsletter 227: We have a winner!

A round-up of the Xmas Quiz. There was one question that stumped everybody, and two others that only one person answered correctly.

The quiz is still available, and if you enter, you will see the correct answers once you have finished.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/winner/

rabbit_quest geohashing 20231224-B-AYG8O8. 

• On bicycle
• 41.913869, 12.457505
• Sunday 24 December, 2023
• 421.91 ppm CO₂
• OpenStreetMap

rabbit_quest geohashing 20231219-W-AY68OD. 

• On foot
• 41.881408, 12.454396
• Tuesday 19 December, 2023
• 421.73 ppm CO₂
• OpenStreetMap

Before

After

Final work on fixing up my 1979 steel bicycle. 

Always a thrill when I have to delay publication of Eat This Newsletter to respect an embargo. Sign up now to have it drop into your inbox at 17:00 CEST tomorrow and be the first to read about the truth of microbiome studies.

I find it strange, and deeply ironic, that a year on, an otherwise fine article still boasts an obviously doctored photograph of NI Vavilov. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? See Nikolai Vavilov as he never was: A true scientist does not deserve a fake photo.

John Naughton's online diary contains a good piece on Wikipedia.

Me: “So you’ve found a glaring error on a subject you know about?”

Critic: “Yes. Elementary mistake”.

Me: “So why haven’t you corrected it?”

Critic: Flustered (sometimes), irritated (often), defensive (much too busy)

But there's another aspect to this, which is the wiki-zealots, who are all-too-ready to block the Critic who does have expertise on a topic precisely because they are not members of the Wikitribe.

Eventually, those people give up and keep their expertise to themselves, doing Wikipedia and the world a disservice.. Well, Wikipedia is doing itself a disservice, but let's not quibble.

It's #InternationalCoffeeDay2021, the whole point of which is promotion, right? So here's a link to all previous episodes of Eat This Podcast on coffee https://www.eatthispodcast.com/coffee/

Correctly attired for editing next weeks episode with @dianaegarvin on some fascinating aspects of coffee history.