Yet there are problems with speeding up whole-grain bread, and they begin with the flour. Many if not most of the new whole-grain white breads on the market are made with a new variety of hard white w...
Psychedelics are for those of us who aren’t so innately gifted.
What should we have for dinner?
Whatever else it impressed on the culture, Huxley's experience left no doubt in his mind or Osmond's that the 'model psychosis' didn't begin to describe the mind on mescaline. 'It will give that elixi...
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.
Okay, but what about microbial disease? To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we’re killing are...
We simply don’t have the words to convey the force of these perceptions to our straight selves, perhaps because they are the kinds of perceptions that precede words.
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.
One good way to understand a complex system is to disturb it and then see what happens.
We don’t die well in America. Ask people where do you want to die, and they will tell you, at home with their loved ones. But most of us die in an ICU. The biggest taboo in America is the conversation...
We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.
PAY MORE, EAT LESS.
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
Seems to be a rule of nutritionism that for every good nutrient, there must be a bad nutrient to serve as its foil, the latter a focus for our food fears and the former for our enthusiasms. A backlash...
Stand back far enough, and the absurdity of this enterprise makes you wonder about the sanity of our species. But consider: When millers mill wheat, they scrupulously sheer off the most nutritious par...
The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pre...
The psychedelic experience of non-duality suggests that consciousness survives the disappearance of the self, that it is not so indispensable as we—and it—like to think.
Binocular depth inversion illusion.
The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.
So that's us: processed corn, walking.
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