August 23, 2016 at 03:10AM

Today I Learned: 1) A great way to cook meatballs is to pan-fry them in a buttered skillet. If only IKEA meatballs were vegan.... 2) There are Uber-like services for grocery shopping. You just put in a grocery order online, pay a transportation fee, and a runner brings the food to your door. 3) Not a fact so much as a new angle on an old problem.... Let me ask you, what does it mean to learn something? What happens when you learn something? What changes? We all kind of intuitively have an idea of what it means, but I would argue that the details are not so obvious. This is especially apparent when you consider how often someone will *think* they've learned something without actually having acquired the ability to use or reproduce that something*. * Incidentally, while I'm on the topic, I would argue that the ability to avoid this trap is one of the most important skills for rational thinking. If you can't recognize when you're still confused about something, you're going to miss out on a *lot* of chances to learn.