🌞 $3 Michelin Star Taco

Daily Upsider - Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Good Morning! 🌞 

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Circadian Rhythm Regulation: Sunlight helps adjust the body's internal clock, improving sleep patterns and overall alertness.

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Cognitive Function: Natural light can enhance cognitive functions, including alertness and reaction time.

So if you’re reading this in the morning, maybe consider going outside for a few minutes. 🙂

Today’s Upside

World News

$3 Michelin Star Taco

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The Michelin Guide, known for awarding stars to top restaurants, has recognized a 100-square-foot taco stand in Mexico with its first-ever star. This stand, Taquería El Califa de León, is located in Mexico City’s San Rafael neighborhood and offers only four menu items with no seating available.

TaquerĂ­a El Califa de LeĂłn is the first taco stand in Mexico to receive a Michelin star, highlighted in Michelin's first guide to Mexico published last week. Chef Arturo Rivera MartĂ­nez has been operating from the same stand on Avenida Ribera de San Cosme since 1968, cooking tacos on a 680-degree grill.

The preparation is simple: for the signature taco, Rivera MartĂ­nez grills a thin slice of beef with salt and lime juice, cooks a fresh tortilla, and serves them together on a plastic plate. Customers then add their choice of red or green sauce. The tacos, which include beef steak, beef rib, and pork chops, cost between 53 and 82 pesos ($3 to $5).

“The secret is the simplicity of our taco,” Rivera Martínez told the AP. “It has only a tortilla, red or green sauce and that’s it. That, and the quality of the meat.”

Michelin’s inspectors praised the stand’s food, noting, “there is a reason why El Califa de León has endured for more than half a century.”

José Luis Rodríguez Ávila, the stand’s manager, says the best way to eat their tacos is “standing up, elbow to elbow with other people and with a can of soda in hand.”

In its new guide, Michelin awarded two restaurants in Mexico two stars, 16 restaurants one star, and six “green” stars for sustainability. It also named 42 “Bib Gourmands” for affordable dining.

Michelin, originally a tire company founded in 1889, started its guide in 1900 to encourage driving. It began awarding stars in 1926 and continues to send anonymous inspectors to review restaurants. Earning a Michelin star is a significant achievement, comparable to winning an Olympic gold medal, according to chef Maxime Meilleur of La Bouitte in France.

Environment

Deep Sea Squid with ‘Headlights’

Credit: University of Western Australia / Inkfish

Australian marine biologists recently captured video footage of a large deep-sea squid attacking their camera over 3,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

The deep-sea hooked squid, one of the largest species in its habitat, drew attention not for its size but for the glowing lights at the end of its tentacles.

A team from the University of Western Australia’s Deep Sea Research Center deployed baited, free-falling cameras to record deep-sea life.

Chief scientist Heather Stewart, working in the Samoan Passage, dropped the camera to a depth of 5 kilometers before retrieving it.

“We realized we had captured something very rare,” Stewart said, as they reviewed the footage.

They identified the squid as a Taningia danae, known for having the largest bioluminescent organs (photophores) of any known animal. These photophores are part of the squid’s hunting strategy, used to disorient prey with bright flashes of light.

“The squid, about 75 cm long, attacked our camera, mistaking it for prey, and tried to startle it with its bioluminescent lights,” Stewart added.

Professor Alan Jamieson, director of the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Center, noted the difficulty of observing deep-sea squid in their natural habitat.

“Most records of this species come from strandings, accidental bycatch, or the stomach contents of whales,” Jamieson said.

“Live observations of these squids are rare, making each encounter valuable for understanding their location, depth, and behavior. We had to share this unique sighting.”

Culture

Interactive Art Installation

People in New York City wave to Dubliners on the other side of the installation. Brendan McDermid/Reuters

A new interactive art installation in New York City lets viewers communicate with people 3,000 miles away in Dublin, Ireland.

Created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys, "the Portal" was unveiled recently. It allows people on both sides of the Atlantic to interact via a video link.

New Yorkers can visit Flatiron South Public Plaza at Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street to see a 24/7 visual livestream of Dublin’s O’Connell Street.

The installation, conceived to demonstrate the power of art to overcome physical barriers, will be in place through the fall, featuring cultural performances in both cities.

“Portals invite people to meet across borders and differences, experiencing our world as united,” Gylys said in the statement.

The livestream connects distant locations, allowing people to meet outside their social circles and cultures, and appreciate global interconnectedness.

The installation was shut down for 6 days after multiple inappropriate displays by people on both sides of the portal. This included an onlyfans model flashing the camera, a streaker in Dublin, and other such behavior.

This is why we can’t have nice things… 😒 

However, the vast majority of interactions have been wholesome and friendly. It has been reopened and reportedly has measures in place to keep further incidence from being transmitted.

Everyday heroes often go unnoticed, like this wonderful man!

Mind Stretchers

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You can drop me from the tallest building and I'll be fine, but if you drop me in water I die. What am I?

Yesterday’s Answers to the Mind Stretchers:
The answer is C. The number of lines of each shape follows a +1 pattern in this shape sequence puzzle. 

Gerry Moore got the correct answer first!

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