Haraway said patriarchy, and has some fun plotting anthropologist PhD trees the way anthropologists plot primate family trees. The essay is in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women if you’re interested. The book also includes The Cyborg Manifesto. It has an essay or two on the psychology of the immune system as well, which I have found useful in understanding my own health issues. It’s not about “fault” (ugh), but more about how the mental affects the physical and vice versa. This is the book that made me realise I tend to feel sad a day or two before a cold comes on, and that if I take preventative measures at that point I can avoid or at least shorten the cold.
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It’s pretty hard not to drag my brother in law in a very socialist way (he’s a Big Bank exec) when he asks me how my work makes people any money. I’m often baffled by how little people seem to understand how the man-made world around them got there, whether that pertains to how they got an iPhone in their pocket, or how they don’t get dysentery from their tap water.
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I was actually thinking of
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I still think it’s a vapor trail from one of those flying saucers the military keeps seeing.
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(has not much to do with science, and a lot to do with human nature, but hey.)
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“While parked at a local supermarket, a stream of nurses traveled between the van and the store, bringing various samples of tea bags for Stephen to choose from. Stephen, solid Englishman that he was, was very particular about his tea.”
That’s not “particular” that’s “entirely reasonable to anyone who has been forced to drink American tea and who knows the difference.”
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Along the same lines comes this anecdote:
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Haven’t heard a snake oil story like this in a while:
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It’s amazing people like Paltrow and others are still allowed to peddle stuff like this. The FDA decided not to regulate “neutraceuticals” because they don’t have the resources (and maybe because of industry pressure too; who knows). But maybe a few deaths will set a fire under them. Quack medicine has been around for ages, and it looks like it isn’t going away any time soon. This Jilly character ought to be prosecuted for murder.
The real tragedy is the stupidity of people who fall for it – and the lack of science education that might have saved a few people.
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As much as I like sauerkraut and kimchi, if the selling point for a particular brand/recipe is “You’ll learn to enjoy explosive diarrhea!”, that’s a hard pass, never mind the snake oil nonsense.
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But without explosive diarrhea, how are you going to expel all the toxins?
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Needs more cheesecake.
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Some really interesting asides.
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Now selling at DeBeers: Planet X diamond rings. For a love that is out of this world.
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