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Trying 7 Easy Viewer-Submitted Snacks with "Karakuchi Zero Ball": The 2nd Drinking Snack Championship
This is the second installment of a series in which culinary researcher Ryuji and the staff of "Buzz Recipe" make, eat and rate drinking-snack recipes submitted by viewers. The theme is easy snacks yo
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Pushing the Score to 10^68279 in the Full Release of the Coin-Pusher Roguelike RACCOIN
This is a gameplay video of the full release of the coin-pusher game RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike. While trying out the features added in the full release, the streamer first clears the standard 15
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Smelling the Sea with Our Ears: Melody Jue on Ocean Memory
Does the ocean have memory? Melody Jue, a scholar of literature and environmental media studies, took this question as the thread for a talk at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco for Long Now Talks.
18:00Ryuji's Verdict on Nissin's "Fukkura Kamadaki Gohan" as Plain White Rice, and Rearranging It into Zosui and Risotto
In this video, part of a series where Ryuji gives blunt reviews of products that catch their interest, the subject is Nissin's cup rice "Fukkura Kamadaki Gohan." The product promises freshly cooked ri
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DHH on Going Agent-First: Taste, Tiny Teams, and the End of the Programmer as Bottleneck
Six months before this conversation, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder and CTO of 37signals, was on Lex Fridman's podcast criticizing AI coding tools. Over the wi
14:42"Void Mushroom Udon" With No Knife or Pot: Microwaved Bag Noodles Made With a Mushroom-Loving Hokto Employee
Culinary researcher Ryuji handed the cooking in this episode over to a guest, explaining that, having been out drinking until morning the night before, they were not yet in a state to cook. The guest
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Why Aliens Might Build a Different Tech Stack: Michael Nielsen on How Science Actually Progresses
Dwarkesh Patel opens this conversation with Michael Nielsen, a pioneer of quantum computing, co-author of the field's standard textbook, and a longtime advocate of open science, by setting aside most
32:29Martin Fowler and Kent Beck on AI: What Carries Over from Agile, and What They Have to Give Up
At the Pragmatic Summit, a conference otherwise full of AI startups, the host brought Martin Fowler and Kent Beck on stage. Both were among the 17 signatories of the Agile Manifesto 25 years ago. The
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A Breakdown of the Ingredients and an In-Depth Review of LUX Super Rich Crystal
Cosmetic chemist Kazunosuke explains in detail the ingredient profile and feel of the "Super Rich Crystal Moisture & Repair Series," newly released in March 2024 by the hugely popular budget hair care
19:43Ryuji's "Popeye Egg": Stir-Fried Spinach, No Boiling, Turned into a Main Dish with Pork Scraps and Eggs
Cooking expert Ryuji wondered whether spinach could be made into a dish that goes well with rice. The answer was the "Popeye Egg," which combines spinach with thinly sliced pork scraps and eggs. Spina
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Dan Wang on the US–China Race: Two Superpowers "Very Intent on Losing"
Dan Wang is the author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He spent six years in China as a technology analyst at the economic re
30:30How the "Max-Garlic" Sapporo Ichiban Shoyu Cup Ramen Went from a 15-Point Prototype to the Finished Product
In this video, culinary researcher Ryuji introduces a cup ramen co-developed with Sapporo Ichiban. The product is based on "Sapporo Ichiban Shoyu Aji" (soy sauce flavor), with fried garlic packed in u
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How Anthropic Runs Growth From Inside a 10x-a-Year Curve: Amol Avasare on Big Bets, Automated Experiments, and the Squeezed PM
Amol Avasare leads growth at Anthropic. On this podcast, host Lenny Rachitsky put the company's trajectory at roughly $1 billion in annual recurring revenue at the start of 2025, about $4 billion by m
29:24Ryuji Compares Three New KFC Items and Recreates the "Chicken Tatsuta Burger" at Home
In this episode, cooking researcher Ryuji tries and reviews several new KFC items that caught their eye, centered on the much-talked-about new "Chicken Tatsuta Burger," and then makes a copycat recipe
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Why Ajinomoto Tastes So Good: Examining Umami Perception, Synergy, and the Rumors About Its Safety
In this episode, the science explainer channel VAIENCE poses two questions about the familiar seasoning Ajinomoto: why do people find it delicious, and is it safe for the human body? The program's pos
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Audrey Hussey on Anxiety, Self-Worth, and the Text That Changed Her Relationship with Matthew
Matthew Hussey usually answers viewers' love-life questions himself. In this video he hands the chair to his wife, Audrey, who he says "did not want to do this video" and needed a great deal of convin
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Fifty Streamers, One Cube, One Million Dollars: How the Elimination Gauntlet Played Out
MrBeast locked fifty well-known streamers inside a large cube with one rule: don't leave. Whoever was left at the end would win $1 million to give away to their own viewers on a livestream. Over two d
33:10Ryuji's "Supreme Omiotsuke": Turning the Hearty Miso Soup from Okinawa into a Bowl You Can Eat with Just Rice
Culinary researcher Ryuji made miso soup as a "makanai recipe" for A-ko. The theme was to make miso soup not as a side dish but as a main dish that completes a meal with just rice. The model was a hea
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Testing a Handmade Conical Inductor Against an Ordinary Solenoid Coil
Conical inductors are wound in a cone shape, and few people in electronic circuit design have seen or used one. The presenter says a conical inductor works the same way as any other inductor. The vide
58:08Beating Bravely Default HD Remaster at the Starting Level: A Record of Strategies for Each Boss
This video is a playthrough of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster taken all the way to the ending without ever raising a level. The player opens by noting that the game is plenty of fun if play