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So, we have a lot of canned tomatoes. I've been stewing over what to do with canned tomatoes for a long time, now. I mean, if some emergency* happened and we had to use them without having access to things like meat, cheese and broth, we would probably need to know more to do with them than making pasta sauce, pizza sauce, BBQ sauce, ketchup, and traditional tomato soup. Tomatoes are one of our most preservable crops (so, a good recipe could really improve lives).

Enter non-traditional tomato soup! (But there's also meatless chili, and lentils with tomatoes.)

Directions:

• Thoroughly blend up a quart of practicaly dry-farmed, canned tomatoes.
• Blend in some baked, frozen Jerusalem artichokes (I imagine fresh ones would work, too); I added maybe 5 or 6 2" pieces of them
• Pour into a glass pot to cook
• Turn the heat on 6 or so. (You might prefer a lower heat, as it'll spit a lot. In fact, just baking it, covered, might be better, but I haven't tried it, yet.)
• Add parsley, pepper, and salt.
• Add one egg
• Add a little white bean flour! (maybe 1 to 1½ tablespoonfuls)
• Cook (stirring as you do so) until your confident that the bean flour and egg have been cooked long enough.

It hits the spot as a complete meal better than tomato soup without grilled cheese sandwiches. It doesn't taste like it needs broth added. The egg adds nice texture.

Interestingly, my teeth felt extra mineralized after eating this. However, it should be noted what else I've been eating, as the minerals in my body could have combined with the soup to add this effect. I've been taking a fair amount of kelp tablets for the last few days. I ate an apple and a banana earlier that day. I had leftover salmon patties (from canned salmon, with potatoes mixed into them) for lunch. I had the soup for dinner.

Yes, I think this recipe could be improved, but it's definitely a couple steps above some other tomato soup experiments I've done, for the stated purpose.

The bean flour seems to give it an almost chili-like quality, but it takes much less time than chili to cook.

We have a lot of beans and Jerusalem artichokes (AKA sunroots); so, the inclusion of those ingredients is nice. Looks like planting those for food security was a good idea.

*Fittingly, we're actually in one of those emergencies, now! Sort of: We could go to the store and buy stuff, but then we might get COVID-19. Note that we're out of bananas (the one I had had been around a long time) and milk.

Note: I'm posting here since the canned tomatoes I used included three species of tomatoes: L. lycopersicum, L. cheesmaniae, and L. pimpinellifolium.

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Here are some articles about the issue (some of them appear to be more informed than others):

• https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3077113/wuhan-doctors-plan-long-term-look-coronavirus-impact-male-sex
• https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.21.20037267v2
• https://www.givelegacy.com/resources/will-covid-19-affect-male-fertility/
• https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074945/coronavirus-hubei-government-deletes-report-claiming-covid-19
• https://www.techtimes.com/articles/248680/20200408/coronavirus-causes-testicular-pain-one-man-with-covid-19-experienced-stabbing-sensation.htm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/world-hunger-could-double-as-coronavirus-disrupts-food-supplies

The linked article talks about how nations are stockpiling their food instead of exporting it, and that this could cause major food problems, rising prices, etc. and that countries in the worst economic situations will suffer the most (but it makes it sound like everyone will suffer a lot).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/desert-locust-outbreak-at-crisis-point-industry-body-says

EDIT: This isn't a pro-conspiracy post. It's something I noticed that I'm trying to understand and evaluate.

I'm looking at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#nav-today

Looking at the global statistics for COVID-19, they just don't make sense. Presumably, about as many people in the world are getting infected per day as they ever have been. We have 1,019,018 total cases, globally, and only 3,953 new cases on the last reported day.

1019018/3953 = ~257.78

Let that sink in. With the infection rate today, it would have taken about 258 days at the same rate to get where we are today, globally (if you just look at the USA, it's even more days). How did we get so many total infections, with so few new cases per day?

The first COVID-19 case was said to have been discovered in November.

The first reported case in the USA was 20 Jan 2020.

245373/496 = ~494.7

It would have taken about 495 days of new reported infections at the current rate to have gotten to where we are today, in the USA. As far as I've seen, new infections haven't been a terrible lot higher per day at any point, even if they have been higher.

We've got the same issue with total deaths compared to daily new deaths reported.

To get the number of deaths in the USA we have now, we would have had to have had an average of 83.5 deaths per day (since January 20th), but we only had 25 on the last reported day, which is presumably the most deaths we've had so far in a day.

Here's a great article about Stachys byzantina, which claims that it is quite edible, and non-toxic, with a somewhat fruity taste: https://plantcaretoday.com/lambs-ear-plant-poisonous.html

The purpose of this thread is to outline concepts and things related to executive function, for reference purposes. Note that the lists here may not be exhaustive, but this page may be edited from time to time.

List of concepts:
• Attentional control
• Cognitive flexibility
• Cognitive shifting
• Cognitive inhibition
• Fluid intelligence
• Inibitory control
• Nootropics (drugs/herbs/supplements that affect executive function, among other things)
• Planning
• Task switching
• Working memory

List of shows designed to help improve executive function:
• Wishenpoof!

Herbs I want to investigate, with regard to effects on executive function:
• Stachys (including betony and Florida radish): Reported effects of betony on people who use computers a lot are what got me thinking it might influence executive function.

Articles or websites related to executive function:
• Tips to help improve working memory

Conditions that may impact executive function:
• ADHD
• Epilepsy
• OCD
• Tourette Syndrome

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This is an interesting article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4889459/

It talks about how people with SARS who had a lomger incubation period tended to have less severe disease than those with a short incubation period.

This article talks about something I've never heard about before. So, I thought I'd post it. I have no plans to try this specific formulation, but I am very interested in the iodine aspects of it, and what the article has to say about it. Be warned that you'll probably want to read the whole thing if you actually try it (there are important warnings that aren't near the beginning): https://en.rfarmfresh.com/994-spraying-tomatoes-with-serum-with-iodine.html

Many people think iodine is just unnecessary and dangerous. It can be dangerous, yes. You don't need to add it, per se, true. But, there are still reasons a person might want to do it. 1. Increased iodine content in your food (not everyone wants to use iodized salt for their only source of iodine). 2. Increased fungus-reistance. 3. Increased shelf-life. 4. The pre-transplant boost it talks about in the article.

That is, assuming all those things are true.

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