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Assorted Links

November 26, 2009March 19, 2024 Seth Roberts1 Comment
  • kombucha experiments
  • photos of restaurant food from all over
  • using one’s own seizures to treat depression
  • narrow vehicles (“the economy and footprint of a motorcycle and the comfort and safety of a car”)
Updated: March 19, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links

Assorted Links

September 14, 2009March 26, 2024 Seth Roberts1 Comment
  • Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Interview with the publisher.
  • Self-experimentation and panic attacks
  • Simon Singh sued by National Chiropractic Association
  • Nassim Taleb testifies to Congress. Interview with Taleb.

Thanks to Dave Lull.

Updated: March 26, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links, China, self-experimentation

Assorted Links

August 12, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth Roberts1 Comment
  • microbes and mental illness
  • probiotics may help after gastric bypass
  • Prevention article about omega-3
  • book about kombucha

Thanks to Kathy Tucker.

Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links, umami hypothesis

Assorted Links

August 2, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth RobertsLeave a comment
  • make your own beef jerky
  • introduction to C. difficile, a dangerous bacterium encouraged by antibiotics
  • Elaine Morgan speaks at TED
  • Chimamanda Adichie graduation speech, 2009
  • why ketchup is hard to improve

Thanks to Justin Owings, Oskar Pearson, Divia Melwani, and Brent Pottenger.

Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links, fermented food, omega-3

Assorted Links

July 14, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth Roberts3 Comments
  • Oatgurt being made. Oatgurt recipe. I’ve made it once, it turned out well.
  • a caustic review of The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain
  • how to make many fermented foods
  • hookworm therapy covered by New Scientist
  • dirt and depression

Thanks to Heather Demetra, Oskar Pearson, James Lucoff, and Eric Wilhelm.

Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links, fermented food

Assorted Links

June 14, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth RobertsLeave a comment

  • Congratulations: You’ve become a New Yorker staff writer by Dan Baum
  • History written by the losers by Nassim Taleb
  • Amazon reviews aren’t as trustworthy as you may think
  • Vast high-quality audio and text for learning foreign languages, including Chinese

Thanks to Ben Casnocha.

Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links

Assorted Links

June 4, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth RobertsLeave a comment
  • profile of psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey
  • polyphasic sleep results
  • solar energy in China
  • the parable of the bees by Bill McKibben
  • puzzle archive
Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links, sleep

Assorted Links

May 27, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth RobertsLeave a comment
  • Ricky Jay radio archive
  • 10 weird experiments
  • A blog about the origin of language
  • Dambisa Moyo replies to Jeffrey Sachs

Thanks to Vic Sarjoo.

Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links

Assorted Links (Elsevier scandal)

May 12, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth Roberts1 Comment
  • Elsevier, the scientific publishing giant, published six fake journals
  • the vastness of medical ghostwriting
  • the awfulness of American health
Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: academic fraud, Assorted Links

Assorted Links (New York City)

May 7, 2009March 27, 2024 Seth RobertsLeave a comment
  • Robert Caro on Jane Jacobs
  • Inside the New York Times
  • Making kombucha in Brooklyn

Thanks to Joyce Cohen and Marian Lizzi.

Updated: March 27, 2024
Categories: Assorted Links, fermented food, Jane Jacobs

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