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• The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years

  01-07-2026 11:00 via openculture.com
  
  As Bangkok rises into the ranks of the world’s great culinary destination cities, its restaurant scene caters to ever more well-heeled travelers. There, you can now visit establishments with not just one, and not just two, but three Michelin stars. Even so, many a Bangkok habitué will surely tell you that the city’s best food is still served in the same humble places as always, or at least whose rent hasn’t been hiked too badly. Even in as hipsterized an area as Ekkamai
  
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• Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)

  01-07-2026 10:00 via openculture.com
  
  Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons
  In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.” That year, the Republican Party stood at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, which initiated a decades-long conservative groundswell. Political strategist Steve Schmidt (who has been regretful about choosing Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate in 2008) once pointed to wha
  
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