Sunday reads - Commented Links; Music

(Perfect pasta; libertarian bears; relieving poverty properly; post-plague art; replacing fossil fuels; Music)

(The Metals, heading from Dalkey Avenue to Dalkey Hill)

1. Making perfect pasta - here’s the science, and it’s more than just boiling water and chucking the pasta in and hoping for the best!

2. This is properly wild - abolish your local government, and bears (yes, actual, large, dangerous bears) will invade your back garden (tl,dr: libertarianism and collective…