existentialism
JANE AUSTEN FIGHT CLUB/
An octopus is very different from a mammal. It only lives about two years. It has much less opportunity to gain and use intelligence than an elephant, which has a 50 year lifespan and three generations of a family to lead and learn from. Still, bees learn about flower locations from other bees, and they live only a few weeks as adults. However, an octopus is also not social; Humphrey (1976) suggested that intelligence has evolved to solve social dilemmas. The young octopus learns on its own with minimal contact with conspecifics and no influences of parental care or sibling rivalry. Padma Lakshmi thatmywife. However, the octopus has a large brain with vertical and sub-frontal lobes dedicated just to storing learned information (Wells, 1978): it has the anatomy for a robust, built-in intelligence.
To get to Chatuchak, or J.J. market, all you have to do is hop on the BTS and take it to the northern most stop. It is a must see for anyone going to Thailand.
Tel Aviv, Israel — Tamara is one greedy giant empress of cool treats. Unsatisfied with her yogurt shop, she is also the unequivocal queen of juice in Tel Aviv. In fact, she built her empire Genghis Khan-style with fruits and blenders before she ever opened the swingin’ Ben Yehuda-Gordon location for yogurt. In my expert opinion of fights to the death, I think Tamara actually would prevail over Genghis in hand-to-hand combat. Not only is she apparently eight feet tall, but the girl takes in more nutrients at her stores than Genghis could find in the whole of his empire. I’ve been to China. I know what they eat.
Tamara has taught me much about my ignorant Jamba Juice smoothie ways. First off, nana (type of mint) can and should be added to just about every smoothie. Second, frappuccino-style ice coffees should always include banana. Third, putting pecans in a smoothie will add a granola flavor without granola texture. Fourth, green melon is a surprisingly underutilized smoothie component for how refreshing it is. Tamara also makes a quality muesli if you’re feeling rebellious when you arrive at the smoothie stand and its too conventional for you to order some juice.
There are two Tamara juice locations, Dizengoff near Tchernikovsky and this one at Dizengoff and Ben Gurion, but really the headquarters of the juice is the latter location. Nobody in the world does juice like Tel Aviv and Tamara within it. Should make sense though, right? Jews is who we are — err, I mean juice. Juice is who we are.
One of my worst fears in life used to be getting lockjaw and never being about to eat again. But now, thanks to Tamara, I fear not. The best things in life can be sipped through a straw.
