all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Except for some isolated restaurant-related insertions, I’ve tried to avoid eating animals (marine or land) for 20 years. Except for the inevitable beetle carapaces and various arthropod parts so popular in food colourings. My...
Labels: Military Keynesianism
I found this old video online of “2001” guy Arthur C Clarke going on about fractals. It’s very early 90s retro, when I skimmed through it I kept seeing Altern-8 and early Prodigy videos…
Death by firing squad … came to be regarded as too bloody and uncontrolled … Hanging came to be regarded as still more inhumane. Under the best of circumstances, the cervical spine is broken...
Blame CanadaTrimSpa!
Cuba has more doctors per capita than any other country: 70,000 for a population of 11 million … Life expectancy in Cuba is the same as that of the United States, and its rate...
The fundamental organization of the reproductive part of the vertebrate urogenital tract is straightforward: it’s a tube with a funnel at one end that captures eggs released by the ovary, and conducts them to...
There is no straight path from the renunciation of meat to a politics of virtue. Nazi vegetarianism raises obvious problems in this regard … Hitler’s strict adherence to a vegetarian diet was largely medical:...