I imagine I’m on a long flight sitting next to someone who, as it turns out, is a palm reader. Or, at least they think they can read palms. So, at first they might offer nicely to read my palm for me. I start to … Continue reading Do I really want my palm read?
So I was enjoying my piece of fruit for lunch today – an apple, in case you haven’t guessed – and I found an interesting surprise:
(spoiler alert – it’s not a worm)
I guess this is what happens when your food isn’t sterilized, irradiated, pasteurized, and processed to death; this is an inspiring piece of living, whole nutrition – so good that the seeds in the core had already sprouted! If that’s not evidence that proper care was taken of this produce, I could not fathom what is. We have been getting most of our produce via a local co-op program called bountiful baskets lately, and I have been seeing some differences. Oranges that aren’t so acidic, bananas with a much longer shelf life, the most delicious plums and peaches imaginable. Anybody who thinks that sounds good and isn’t part of one should look into that, we pay $15 a week for a basketful of high-quality produce.
Are you part of a similar co-op, or of one that deals in meat, dairy, or other goods? Let us know what’s kicking on your neck of the woods.
Recently I was out running and listening to one of my go-to podcasts, Stuff to Blow Your Mind. This is a show in which the hosts, Robert Lamb and Julie Douglas, talk about really interesting topics. The June 25th episode was called “Clocking In”, and it was about the nature of space and time. That show has been sticking with me all week, and it has been rolling around in my mind, throwing up great showers of sparks in my imagination.
Not far into the show I began to imagine space and time as Siamese twins; they grow, and are inextricably linked, together. Realizing I was beginning to dream up a mythos, I started to go with it. They weren’t just Siamese twins – born to a mysterious mother with darkness in her heart and chaos in her soul, she exists vicariously through her daughters to escape the madness of that chaos and the loneliness of that darkness. In this way she has found a creative outlet, a way to express herself, from the looping whorls of galaxies all the way down to sub-quantum interactions.
Interesting – last night I was reading the Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and I found an interesting analogue in the story of Mary Barnes, who was locked in a state of schizophrenic madness, institutionalized, and finally allowed to express herself through the art of painting. I’ll spare you the unsavory details and highly recommend reading the book instead, but according to the author, “[h]er paintings were greatly admired in he 1960’s and 1970’s for illustrating the . . . complicated inner life of a schizophrenic.”
This is an interesting video about how 4D printing is now being developed to create structures that build themselves under certain conditions (just add water? Really?) But Rob, you say, it’s like 3D printers just came out. Now they’re talking about 4D? What gives? Let’s … Continue reading Extra dimensions: 4D printing?
I found this at the bottom of page 40 of the June 2013 popular Science. It’s an interesting approach to using a patient’s own cells to treat a condition – but they’re not stem cells! Weird, but maybe someday the “Pei pee” treatment will be … Continue reading An interesting approach to Alzheimer’s treatment
I didn’t know about Reddit before, and indeed I might be the last person on the Internet to have learned about it. In this month’s Wired magazine there is an entry-thing (check out the issue to see what I mean) about Reddit and how there … Continue reading I just learned about Reddit!
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