Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Anthropological and medical background on the American obesity epidemic from Craig Lambert.
Different scholars and popular writers have argued that human beings have
"evolved" to be carnivores, herbivores, frugivores, or omnivores, but
anthropologist Richard Wrangham says we are "cookivores," grinning at the
neologism. "We evolved to eat cooked foods," he declares. "Raw food eating
is never practiced systematically anywhere in the world."
Yet I'm still tempted to have a gratuitous Krispy Kreme in honor of National Carb Awareness Day. (Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily and kottke.org.) posted: 10:32:28 AM |
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Leta would not consider Ander Monson's "Outline Towards a Theory of the Mine Versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline" to be a poem. I like it anyway. posted: 10:32:24 AM |
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Periodic cicadas are heard more than seen around my house. Mornings I hear the alien hollow whirr from the back of my house. The sound is sort of nondirectional, it could be coming from anywhere, but the insects would be most prevalent in the woods west of the high school, a quarter mile away. Sometimes I hear an annual cicada at the same time. It has a metallic tone, more insistent. There are some molted exoskeletons attached to my house, but it's nothing like the masses of chitin that Chuck showed me in his back yard on Tuesday. I'm only seeing one or two in flight at one time. The cicadas look like super-sized fireflies. posted: 10:32:22 AM |
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