After-Orts #62

A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multisensory viewing experience.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/23/taste-the-tv-japan-invents-lickable-screen-to-imitate-food-flavours

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In 2011, a retired Army general estimated that the Defense Department was spending a little over twenty billion dollars a year to provide air-conditioning for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
https://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-war-20b-in-air-conditioning

The evolution of cooling technology can be viewed as a parable of our unfolding climate catastrophe
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-the-refrigerator-became-an-agent-of-climate-catastrophe

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A hidden haiku from a NYT story about sushi chefs:
   They know what you want,
   and sometimes even what you
   don’t yet know you want.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/dining/la-sushi.html