Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. More
Readers of classic science fiction may remember the “character” of Chicken Little in Pohl and Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants — a giant hunk of vat-grown meat from which slices were periodically removed to feed the masses.
What’s going to happen, economically and politically, over the next few years? Nobody knows, of course. But I have a vision — what I think is the most likely course of events. It’s fairly grim — but not in the approved way. This vision lies behind a lot of what I’ve been writing, so it might clarify things for regular readers if I laid it out explicitly.
I am not now, nor have I ever been, interested in writing about Tiger Woods.
The phrase “Chicago distilleries” tends to elicit visions of cinematic gunfights and bullet-pocked Cadillacs — not hyper-educated Gen Xers surrounded by 60 pounds of raw ginger. Welcome to the new era of boutique spirit making in Chicago. More
This refreshing dessert - the only one this week that doesn’t involve cooking fruit -- is like a pick-me-up after a rich dinner. Oranges are not only a great source of vitamin C; they’re packed with other phytochemicals called limonoids that are being studied for their anti-inflammatory, immune-boosting and cholesterol-lowering properties. If you can find blood oranges, you’ll get the added benefits of the anthocyanins in the red pigment. More
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