Sugar and salt: Industrial is best
Not all progress is bad. Rachel Laudan makes a powerful case that modern methods of making sugar and salt are far superior.
Category: Podcasts
Spam: a special edition
I did not know that that the famous Monty Python spam sketch was recorded on 6 June 1970. At least, that’s the claim of a Tumblr obsessed with Minnesota in the 1970s. (Wikipedia says only that “[i]t premiered on 15 December 1970”.) However, I need no encouragement to share a …
Seed Law
The big question is, why do amateur growers and those who choose not to care even need the protection of EU seed legislation?
Potatoes are (almost) perfect
Most of what you think you know about potatoes and nutrition is wrong.
Neanderthal Diets Grateful that they didn't brush their teeth
From a wilderness survival trick to a new theory on Neanderthal cooking.