Friday, April 29, 2016

Insurance Man - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/the-thrilling-mind-of-wallace-stevens?mbid=social_twitter

Mariani, an accomplished New England poet himself, with an unstressed Catholic bent, has written well-received biographies of William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. He has a prehensile feel for the roots and branches of literary modernism, exemplary taste in what he chooses to quote, and a real gift for exegesis, unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet's, and as clear as faithfulness allows.

---Steve

Teen birthrate hits all-time low, led by 50 percent decline among Hispanics and blacks - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/28/teen-birth-rate-hits-all-time-low-led-by-50-percent-decline-among-hispanics-and-blacks/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_teen-births-115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory


---Steve

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"


Some bold adventurers disdain 
36The limits of their little reign, 
37And unknown regions dare descry: 
38Still as they run they look behind, 
39They hear a voice in every wind, 
40And snatch a fearful joy.

---Steve

Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"

http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec

where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

---Steve

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Don’t Trust Whole Foods Natural Claims, or Anyone Else’s | American Council on Science and Health


So "natural" mostly matters when you are trying to overcharge someone. No one who isn't an organic food believer and has seen the prices at the "faux-hippie Wal-Mart" called Whole Foods is shocked by the fact they are overcharging for obvious things.(1)


---Steve

Baharat (Middle Eastern Spice Blend) - The Daring Gourmet

http://www.daringgourmet.com/2013/06/17/baharat-middle-eastern-spice-blend-2/


---Steve

Saturday, April 02, 2016

How the Media Got a Study About Vegetarianism Really, Really Wrong | Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-media-got-a-study-about-vegetarianism-wrong-food-diet-nutrition-vegetarian-colon-cancer-heart-disease?utm_source=mbfb


---Steve

RETRACTED: Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize — ScienceDirect

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637


---Steve

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Shared from Twitter: Ask Well: Can Vinegar Aid Weight Loss? - The New York Times



---Steve

Nathanael Johnson lets the anti-GMO movement off the hook

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1530

What is most disturbing about the GMO debate – and why it matters – is that the anti-GMO movement at almost every turn rejects empiricism as a means of understanding the world and making decisions about it. The reason GMO opponents have largely rejected Johnson and his series is not solely because they disagree with his conclusion that GMOs are not an existential threat to our existence – but because they reject his methods. They do not appear to believe that the kind of questions that Johnson asks – "Does insect resistant corn reduce the amount of insecticide used on farms?" – can even be asked. They already know the answer, and are completely unmoved by evidence. - See more at: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1530#.dpuf

---Steve

#GMOFAQ How Bt corn and Roundup Ready soy work, and why they should not scare you

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1135


---Steve

PICSE

http://mv.picse.net/pesticides/cotton/how-was-bt-cotton-produced/


---Steve

Regulation of genetically modified organisms in the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetically_modified_organisms_in_the_European_Union


---Steve