It's been a while, so I was overdue for a coffee making problem. My electric kettle has gone tango uniform this week. So I've been heating water on the stove like it's the 20th century while trying to decide if I'll get a new one, or just get an old-fashioned teakettle and call it a day. There are so many of these for sale, and so many of them seem like junk. But worse, they share characteristics that make it hard to find one that suits me. I want one with no plastic, a water capacity of at least 1.5 liters, multiple temperature options, and a gooseneck. It's like the old saying about being able to pick two choices between fast, cheap, and good. I can find plenty of larger units with no goosenecks and plenty of gooseneck units with no plastic, even larger ones. But finding the goldilocks model that combine all four of those features has proven difficult in the past (the one that just died has a regular pour spout). If I'm getting a unit that's just going to go straight to 212° and let it cool off, I may as well just get a teakettle and do the same thing. This is the kind of situation that leads to Kickstarters. Remember this moment when I appear on Shark Tank.

Boiling Round-up
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Stories

• The Daylight Saving Time Mess Just Won't Go Away (may require registration or subscription).
• Are we ethically ready to set up shop in space? We're not ethically ready for self-serve soda fountains.
• Mikaela Shiffrin breaks all-time skiing record with 87th World Cup win.

Science

• Astrobiologists train an AI to find life on Mars. It's a god-awful small affair. Thanks Reddit via A.M.
• NASA demos futuristic Space Cup for coffee that works without gravity. It's like the space pen/pencil joke. The Russians use a straw.

Media

• Making an Infinite LEGO Domino Ring.
• The 1st Amendment Doesn't Say that.
• Cocaine Bear Pitch Meeting.

Creature Features

• The Kiffness x Oh Long Johnson 2.0 - Hold Onto My Fur (Talking Cat Song). Thanks VideoSift.

Follow-up

• SodaStream is a bad deal, and modding your own is better. Makes me feel better about deciding against getting one.