# Topics from "Procedural Knowledge Gaps"

About a year ago, we had a major discussion about [procedural knowledge gaps](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/?sort=new). Here's what was covered....

[How to tell whether food is fresh](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hlf)[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ix9)

[pjeby claims that eating raw chicken is safe because the gag reflex identifies it fast](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ix9)[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hlj)

[How to buy investments](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hlj)

[Memorizing the alphabet and other arbitrary lists](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hln)

[Comparison of various how-to sites](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hms)

[General discussion of making things (including Less Wrong) easier to use](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hoi)

[How jump start a stalled car](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hp8).

[How to use the Yellow Pages](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hpf).

[Cheap and easy healthy food](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hrg).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hrw)

[Questions about preparing a simple soup](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hrw).

[Exercise](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hrk).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hrm)

[Starting relationships, especially for heterosexual men](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hrm).

[Cooking in general](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3htv).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3jb2)

[Browning meat](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3jb2).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i49)

[How to become bisexual](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i49).

[How to transfer money from one electronic account to another](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hsq).

[How to buy a used car](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3htp).

[Interacting with police.  (](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hwn)[Don't talk to US police!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc) [The rules are different in the UK](http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2641320.html?nc=5#comments).)[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hvx)

[How to speak clearly, slowly, etc.](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hvx).

[How to fold a fitted sheet](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hvy).

[How to make a will](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hw4).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hwh)

[How to order at a bar](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hwh). Also, some cookbook recommendations.[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hxf)

[Tipping in the US](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hxf).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hxs)

[Tipping in the UK and France](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hxs).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hwt)

[Spacial orientation](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hwt).

[Personal hygiene-- washing, soap, shampoo](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hxi).

[Haircuts for men](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i6m).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ikw)

[Haircuts for women](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ikw).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3inl)

[Growing and maintaining long hair](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3inl).

[Putting a cover on a duvet](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i7e).

[Telling the difference between flirting and friendliness](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hyf).

[Choosing shirts that fit](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3hzd).

[Left vs. Right (which hand, not political)](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i0y).

[Shaving one's face](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i1g).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i36)

[How to end conversations politely](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i36).

[How to make people laugh](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ij7).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i4u)

[Mailing large objects in the US](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i4u).

[How to format comments at Less Wrong](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i59).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i5s)

[How to declutter](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i5s).

[E readers](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ib7).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ib7)

[Touch typing](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i81).

[Dvorak, etc.](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3i8a)[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ia0)

[How often to see a doctor](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ia0).

[Remembering to be polite](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3iaa).

[Tying shoes](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3iau).

[Home maintenance](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ibl).

[What might melt in a dishwasher](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3icq).

[Kitchen knives](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3imq).[](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3iqf)

[Sorting laundry](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3iqf).

[Does cranking up the thermostat heat the house faster?](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3ig7).

[More about investment](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3io3)

[How to not stutter](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3icz).

[How to be a good manager](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3idf).

[Scrubbing](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/5248).

[How to use Google](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3jhh).

[How to talk to strangers](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3j7d).

Potential topics:

How to give clear instructions.

How to see things from other people's point of view

Cool sidetrack: [Fish and lightning](/lw/453/procedural_knowledge_gaps/3lmi)

Links and quotes:

[Why grad school in the humanities is a bad choice](http://chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-in-the/44846) One probably could not devise a better system for keeping people with humanistic values away from power than by confining them to decade-long graduate programs with a long future of transient adjunct positions making less than the minimum wage. From [Part 2](http://chronicle.com/article/Just-Dont-Go-Part-2/44786/). The first article is a nice example of applying the far view (look at how things are in general) to a personal decision.