If you want to understand what an expanded consciousness looks like, all you have to do is have tea with a four-year-old.
I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley
How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and histo...
For as long as the carnival of capitalism lasts, the rules of logic are repealed...
Food processing began as a way to extend the shelf life of food by protecting it from these competitors. This is often accomplished by making the food less appealing to them, by removing nutrients fro...
Eating puts us in touch with all that we share with the other animals, and all that sets us apart. It defines us.
EAT SLOWLY.
Curtis Wright, a new administrator at the FDA (and, as it happens, a former student of Roland Griffiths’s at Hopkins), had signaled that research protocols for psychedelics would be treated like any o...
And suddenly I realized that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of my spacecraft, the molecules in the body of my partners, were prototyped, manufactured in some ancient generation of stars....
An alternative food system is rising up on the margins, Joel continued. One day Frank Perdue and Don Tyson are going to wake up and find that their world has changed. It won’t happen overnight, but it...
Americans are consuming a diet that is at least half sugars in one form or another—calories providing virtually nothing but energy. The energy density of these refined carbohydrates contributes to obe...
One-fifth of America’s petroleum consumption goes to producing and transporting our food.)
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
What troubles me most about my vegetarianism is the subtle way it alienates me from other people and, odd as this might sound, from a whole dimension of human experience. Other people now have to acco...
Umami…is the quasi-secret heart and soul of almost every braise, stew, and soup.
To wit, can authenticity be aware of itself as such and still be authentic? I
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the...
There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back.
There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.
The mental health system reaches only a fraction of the people suffering from mental disorders, most of whom are discouraged from seeking treatment by its cost, social stigma, or ineffectiveness. Ther...