Archive for June 2012
Saturday Fun: World Travel; Italy and the Cinque Terre
It’s been nearly two years now since we took a trip internationally. Far too long. It’s not in the making this summer—so far, anyway—so I thought I’d review the last trip, July 2010. It’s for myself to relive it a bit, but also for those readers who weren’t around at that time, perhaps to inspire…Read More
Synthesis: Guyenet, Colpo, Calories Count, Food Quality Matters, Macronutrient Ratios are Qualitative
This is actually my favorite sort of post to do; more so, even, than the rants here and there. I find it interesting to get two or more perspectives on some issue or controversy, then synthesize them into what I always hope will be a broader context of understanding and in particular, highly accessible to…Read More
JAMA: Effects of Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance
Well I’d intended to get up this morning and write a run of the mill rant about the stupid article accompanying an interview the other day on NPR Morning Edition with my buddy John Durant. Here’s the link to the thing, along with 7 minutes of audio that’s substantially better than the article. There’s now…Read More
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways: DeadLifts
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee…Read More
Brief Update: The Book, Version 2.0
I almost wrote a post last evening just so I could write something for fun. But I was a bit sapped—which continues into today—so I ate a big bowl of my father-in-law’s caldo de res instead. Now, finally, the editors get it back for a couple days before it reverts to me. What’s Version 2.0?…Read More
Man Alive! Chapter 5: The Greatest Love of All
Here’s the post that kicked it all off. This is chapter 5 of 12, to give interested readers the chance to take on the free ebook chapter by chapter over the weekend, debate it amongst themselves, or even challenge the author who’s keeping tabs. ~~~ From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind.…Read More
World’s Best Multivitamin Dietary Supplement?
Universal’s Uni-Liver Well here we go, two posts about bovine liver, back-to-back. Ha, well, it’s Saturday, so the rules are substantially loosened. And I make the rules anyway. But this liver post is different. It’s about liver supplements. Some week back I was actually wondering if there was any such thing as, like y’know, desiccated…Read More
Focus on Nutrients: Beef Liver Ideas and Alternatives
I’m big on beef liver. For one, it makes a lot of evolutionary sense in terms of using as much from a kill as possible. Second, if you learn to like it I think you may find yourself surprised at how regular doses (it is nature’s multi-vitamin) uplift your spirits. Nothing like topping up on…Read More
My Hunter-Gatherer Social Experiment With Facebook
I’ve long written on this blog along these lines: we evolved to account for the values and actions of about 30 other individuals. The corollary: at that level, each individual has a real potential to influence the collective action of the entire group, should it be important enough to undertake. And the general social corollary is…Read More
A Look at Some of The People Being Helped by “Bad and Incomplete Science” Part 2
A few more to add to the collection. ~ Mike shares. I’m 47 years old and have been yo-yoing with my weight since my parents got divorced when I was seven. I had to go to my grandmother’s house after school and being the typical grandma, fed me all the sweets and ice cream and sugar and…Read More
A Gnollish Meal and Discussion with J. Stanton
Yes, there was the interview. That was the morning after these photos, that Beatrice snapped candidly over dinner. I myself was so absorbed, that I didn’t even know about them until I updated her computer shit this afternoon and found them on her iPhone. Listen J, Points Come Together. J…VAGINAS…Come Together! Whaaaat? Here, J, Eat…Read More
Man Alive! Chapter 4: The Greatest Invention in the History of Humanity
Here’s the post that kicked it all off. This is chapter 4 of 12, to give interested readers the chance to take on the free ebook chapter by chapter over the weekend, debate it amongst themselves, or even challenge the author who’s keeping tabs. ~~~ From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind.…Read More
The Very Gnollish J. Stanton Interview on Everything
How many of the 600 or so attendees to AHS11 at UCLA weren’t shocked by the appearance of J. Stanton? …Mohawk? Long! ….Why? …We did covered Gnolls in the interview. Spotted Hyena based creatures that, if it could talk to humans—as they non-magiacally can in The Noll Credo—would almost certainly find us less repulsive if…Read More
Theatrical Release Trailer: J. Stanton Up Close & Personal
As I posted a few days back, we’ve been spending the week up here in the mountains. It’s been fun, not the least of which is that yesterday afternoon, J. Stanton of Gnolls.org took a drive over Ebbetts pass at 8,730 ft., from Lake Tahoe to join us in Arnold—at a mere 4,000 ft—for an…Read More
No One’s Power but Our Own: Paleo Sexist Woes, and an Invitation to Rise Up and Roar
The following is a guest post by Stefani Ruper of Paleo For Women, lending her unique perspective on the differences between the sexes. [For an update, please see: Lemons to Lemonade Documentary – Ed] Preface Mark’s Daily Apple receives between 250,000 and 300,000 unique visitors to its homepage every month. This means that MDA has…Read More
Grilled Pork Steaks; Jorge Knott and Beatrice Nikoley…Anecdotes and Salutes
It’s Monday evening, up at the cabin. Beatrice and I left town Saturday morning. We drove to Sacramento, checked into a hotel, and went over to Jorge’s home—one that takes its foundation in an old neighborhood. It’s this side of humble, but cool—a superlative, old growth tree neighborhood that he was happy with; and, he …Read More
A Look at Some of The People Being Helped by “Bad and Incomplete Science” Part 1
In addition to all these stories already logged, let me take a look through some saved emails and see what I can come up with. Keep in mind that these people might be working off so-called bad or incomplete science (LC, fear of fructose, obsessions about “clean eating” and so on) and apparently, it’s more…Read More
Sunday Evening “Guest Post” by Lou Reed
Listen closely from a minute or so in, now. Nighty night. I’m pretty much down with the sun, tonight. …Oh, in case you want to hear a sweet, sweet studio version from Rock & Roll Animal. Don’t forget the name.Read More
Man Alive! Chapter 3: Speaking in Tongues
Here’s the post that kicked it all off. This is chapter 3 of 12, to give interested readers the chance to take on the free ebook chapter by chapter over the weekend, debate it amongst themselves, or even challenge the author who’s keeping tabs. ~~~ From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind.…Read More
The Culture of Obesity
Having lived and traveled in Europe, the so-called Mediterranean Diet (not the faux Mediterranean Diet) has never mystified me. It’s not a diet at all. It’s a culture, and when you live there, travel there a lot, you’ll understand. Here, Let a reader whom I’ll call ‘M’, explain. ~~~ I truly enjoy your no BS…Read More