Tag: food
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The Enlightenment was centuries ago. Why do you think people still cling to outmoded ways of explaining the world, such as religion?
I don’t see history as linearly-progressive. I believe we learn much from our past, and value history. Our story is an accumulation of our thoughts, our lives and our predecessors’ ways of living: and it contains many, many truths. We don’t always learn from the past, and often forget what used to be known. There…
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Democracy and the Web: the UK gets it while America tries to control it.
I read yesterday that twitter has been banned from the White House. In the post, Marshall Kirkpatrick joked that this could be a reason we haven’t seen much from Obama’s twitter stream recently. I must admit however, my initial reaction was sympathetic with the White House for pragmatic reasons, though the attitude of the Press…
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Outsourcing Lunch
There are many things I want to do to improve the way I live. My little plot of the world should be made greener through fantastic gardening skills. My waistline should be happily withering while my biceps should be steadily broadeningādespite the physical reality that I’d entirely lose my middle that way. Dinner parties should…
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Happy New Year
It is now 2008, and I wish you all the best for it. I’ve been asked by all the friends who shared the ringing of the new in last night about new years’ resolutions I might have. I tend to be very abstract, and can’t really put an exact goal down, and have always felt…