Dreams of Food in Any Damn POW Camp in the Pacific
36,000 Americans were imprisoned in Japanese POW camps in World War II, most of them for three or more years. Their chance of survival was not much better than 1 in…
Read moreJust eleven plants out of thirty thousand
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven – corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats –…
Read moreA Fine Wine or a Child’s Life?
That’s the question posed by Princeton ethicist Peter Singer in his new book. Here’s Easterly’s review. My thoughts? That would need a longer and more reasoned discussion. Let’s just say…
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