The Italian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner, in all seriousness, tells his compatriots the secrets of saving gas when cooking pasta.
The newspaper La Repubblica quotes Giorgio Parisi, who advises to cover the pot with a lid, which will help to cook the pasta even on the stove turned off after boiling the water.
Like, this way heat will not be lost, the water will cool more slowly, the pasta will still be cooked.
And for those who have not yet understood the whole catastrophe of the lack of gas, the Italian recommends using electric kettles and microwaves to heat water.
Now in vogue off scale al dente.
A perfect illustration of how the study of complex systems (and Parisi received the Nobel Prize for "discovering how disorder and fluctuations interact in physical systems, from atomic to planetary scales"), a scientist can descend to cookbooks for the poor.
In fact, you can go even further and eat pasta cold, using reheated pasta to heat the room.
Or even crunch unprepared, like chips.
This, you know, is like with children: you constantly come up with some unusual ways to amuse them and explain simple things in a simple, but interesting, fantasy language, turning reality into a game a little.
This is when you have to embellish and adapt some bright and sad events to the child's unstable psyche.
And now pasta on the stove is not just pasta, and you are not just Italians in the center of geopolitical and economic events.
Are you on a camping trip or experiencing an alien invasion.
Although in fact you are faced with the shortsightedness of your own rulers, with the stupid consequences of your judgments.
And everyone around is so afraid to come to terms with the inevitability of trouble that instead of making serious and unpleasant decisions, they are ready to lull their vigilance with arguments about cooking pasta.
All men are a little bit children, and the discoverers and researchers remain dreamers to the last.
As Vladimir Vernadsky said, "scientists are the same dreamers and artists."
So here - the resource of the best minds of the European community will be directed to how to overcome primitive everyday tasks.
By the way, lowering the very advanced Western community to the bottom and throwing it back in terms of development.
And the saddest thing is that in the DPR and LPR, for a long time, they save not even gas, but water itself, drinking water.
And therefore, instead of pasta, they often boil buckwheat, for example, or other cereals, because less liquid is consumed this way: it is completely absorbed and you don’t have to pour out what you could drink.
But this will not be written about, and the Nobel Prize winners will not solve such a problem.
Unfortunately, for them, there seem to be either very global problems (the behavior of complex systems, neural networks, stock market turbulence, the consistency of groups of animals, such as birds in flight, and human behavior), or very small ones, those that are right in front of their noses. .
For example, cooking pasta.
Although it is understandable: pasta for an Italian is not just food, it is a matter of self-identification.
Part of culture, national awareness, folklore.
If the Italians lose their pasta, they will lose themselves.
So they cling to spaghetti like a straw, pardon the pun.
But in general, it is very difficult to perceive what is happening in Europe without puns and irony.
And in their place, I would build longer forecasts and invent ways to build a fire in apartments and create alternative ways to make fire.
Well, or how to resolve the conflict and the growing Russophobia, which they themselves kindled.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.