Rachel Laudan

The fact that a movement like SF – anti-progressive, antiscientific, worshipping the traditional societies, fond of the little, stratified and perennial communities in which the place of each is eternally fixed and immutable, uncaring and ignorant of history and of the reality of the relations of production, and thus incapable of seeing the inextricable contradictions [...]

In the market in Silao, Mexico, the very geographic center of Mexico, ten miles south of the the city of Guanajuato in the State of Guanajuato, the semilleros (seed shops) sell black eyed peas (Vigna unguicalata) along with all the usual Mexican beans. They call them veronicas. You can see them in the sack at [...]

Don’t rely on your doctor for nutritional advice. And new evidence pushing back the domestication of maize. And fresh recipes from different parts of Africa. Good background on academic history careers.  And while we’re on the subject, how the past generation of historians became historians. “I have been struck by how much chance rather than [...]