Ernst wrote the book soon after her return to Belgium in 1915, but she chose not to publish it until 1921, when, as she writes in her introduction, it had become a “sketch of an autumn twilight, of an end of civilization”: “It evokes the smile of the isolated individual, of the...
Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are two of my favorite food holidays, and as I was looking for inspiration for this week’s Shabbat shalom post it seemed that the foodie world has been a bit obsessed with this once-in-77-millenia holiday mashup! It’s left me thinking about my own Thanksgivukkah...
If we refer back to Figure 1 we can see that when the averaging period = 1, the estimates of climate sensitivity are equal to 3.0. In this case, the noise is uncorrelated to the temperature because of the model construction. Slightly oversimplifying, today’s temperature is calculated from ...
For millenia, philosophers have told us we could do it by willing ourselves to behave better, through faith, or by obedience to strict codes of conduct. Those prescriptions never worked well, not all by themselves, and they proved almost useless at thwarting truly malignant men bent on harming...
There are those romantic enough, who have the leisure to suppose that this is not our nature – despite millenia of evidence to the contrary. If I was even more cynical than I am, I would postulate that they believe this so as not to have to confront their own weakness, so as to cha...
so if our raw-fed dogs have not been exposed to wolves, or dogs with a carnivore’s microbiome, where do they get the bugs from to change their flora? The wolves’ gut microflora will have developed over millenia. because something cannot be proven (by double-blinded etc etc) doesn’t ...