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Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17....more

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attra...more

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Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction without a differ...more

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Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbo...more