Jason Socrates Bardi

In my upcoming book The Great Math War (@BasicBooks, 2025), I describe some of the modern neuroscience evidence that suggests mathematics is what I call a "human primitive," something that evolved far back in time -- and not just in human populations! Monkeys, crows, dolphins, clown fish, and many other species have an innate quantitative ability to directly manipulate numbers, discern geometric shapes, and appreciate the discrete charm of other privileged mathematical objects. And why not?! Those things are the stuff of external reality. Is it any wonder the ability to do math emerged in animals? No! Evolutionarily it makes sense. "Counting winter dinners one a hill," as Robert Frost says. Some non-human animals reason superbly, in fact. Researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany showed a couple years ago that crows can associate signs and symbols with numbers and interpret them complexly. They trained crows to peck out recursive sequences—performing quite well, “On par with children and even outperforming macaques,” the researchers wrote. Clever birds! See: 2022, doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… Abstract mental recursion, the ability to have one mental representation embedded within another mental representation, has also long been considered a key feature of specifically human intelligence. For years, many went so far as to make the caw-caw claim that mathematical ability even defines what it means to be human. (Crows have something to say about that!) I was excited to see a new paper this week adding another animal study to the evolutionary question. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University trained four baboons to do separate numerical and geometric tasks, and they showed that, much like in people, mutual cognitive bridges exists between spatial and numerical learning. When monkeys do well on one, they do well on the other. "Such representations could form the evolutionary foundation for the well-documented “cognitive bridge” between numerical and spatial reasoning in human development," they write. SEE: pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.107… My book is available for pre-order at: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason-s…

@Dr_Paiwan God yes!

@JasonBardi It is so delicious! Would you like to eat it?

So awesome

That's a GREAT question. I was pondering what the oven was about. The high placement suggests broiling, but when he puts the steak in the pan, it's still red, so I am thinking he was maybe just warming the steak to RT??? It's a well known 101 tip to warm beef to room temp before cooking. So maybe this is an elevated way of warming it???

@JasonBardi @F00d___Porn Assuming he broiled it in the oven? Any input on temp and time spent in the oven? Trying this method for my next steak

There are two mistakes in this prep. First, flip the bacon. It's still soft and pink on the side that touches the tomato. I say flip it & let the other side crisp too. That's a matter of taste. I am an American and most Americans cannot stand soft, wet bacon. Ewwww! The other issue is more serious. IMO. You should NEVER put jalapeños in a wrap like this until the very end. You want the, cold and crispy for good contrast with the soft warm egg and cheese combination. Cooking will also bleed them of juices. Don't do it!

Would you eat this amazing breakfast?

@j0ker937 Wow. That looks amazing

I bet that's some good grub.

@Soulfoodiiee Obviously spectacular.

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@AimePatrickIra1 You had me at "meat tower."

How meat tower for Turkish dinner Kebaba built kooks "strange".🗯

@estabthepass @OurHealthNest WTF?

@JasonBardi @OurHealthNest Oh my bad you have a AI slop profile pic you obviously have bad taste and their is no changing you. My bad.

One pan Creamy sun-dried tomatoe pasta 🍝

@Bagels1924 @Mlu__N2 Exactly what I meant. In practice, this means making the pasta extra soupy so that it can sit for 10 minutes.

@JasonBardi @Mlu__N2 Just prep 1st, and take the pasta off around the same time as the steak. You'll wait less and nothing will be cold

Looks good but hate when people don’t cut off at that fat on the side 😭

@ArielBionicLegs @Mlu__N2 LOL

@JasonBardi @Mlu__N2 Раздавливание чеснока это единственное, к чему у меня нет претензий тут.

She started cooking morning and finally ate in the night…I will be dead of hunger …

@Playteaux1 You are not wrong. Plus pecan pie without the pecans... is it really worth it?

@JasonBardi I love that stuff but it seriously puts me in a sugar coma for about 6 hours. I don’t do sugar well.

Pecan’t Pie

Generally good advice for sauces and such, but if you cook dried pasta in your cooking sauce, you are adding A LOT of starch. What color is pasta water when you are done cooking? It's cloudy. ALL that unflavored, unhealthy starch is in your sauce now. A much better way of doing it is to par boil the pasta for half the cooking time (or less), drain it, rinse it well, and then finish it in the sauce. That's 101 type shit.

@JasonBardi @OurHealthNest If you're cooking something with water, your very first question should be, "can i replace this water with something that adds to the dish"

@BrunetPau How could anybody think this movie is even remotely relevant after Mad Max/Road Warrior. Give me gay goth BDSM bikers any day over this boring Shite!

Hay que reconocerlo: “Duel”, de Steven Spielberg, no pasará de moda. Pensar que hace 55 años este fue el primer largometraje que rodó Spielberg, era una TV movie y costó 450.000$ te explota la cabeza. Es una maravilla de ejercicio de suspense y terror, enormemente inteligente. Y este año tenemos nueva película de Spielberg.

@GaraGaraGula Ruined by the canned pineapple

t’s a very big burger, isn’t it

@Playteaux1 OK fair enough. But still... Worcestershire sauce?! Hey England... Italy called, and they want their salad dressing back.

@JasonBardi They were being crushed at the beginning with a fork.

I need this Caesar salad

What was that Dana Carvey line from SNL? Casino? Ca-seen-it! Only I liked it better the first time when it was called "Goodfellas."

Is Casino just as good as Goodfellas?

@KitchenBites_ Weird and disgusting.

Easy Italian style dinner.