• Olive oil and the Willat Effect. “You can read about great olive oils, and their vast superiority over bad oils, all you want. . . . But until you try first-rate olive oil for yourself – actually put the good stuff in your mouth, and compare that experience to the bad stuff you’ve eaten in the past – you won’t really get it. . . . . Once you taste fine olive oils and their low-class imitations [side by side], though, you start to care.”
• Petraeus Affair: The journalism of what we don’t know.
• Tucker Max on book publishing. Disruptive innovation for popular authors.
• Animal self-medication. Sick animals eat differently than healthy animals.

Thanks to Alex Blackwood.