I’d never heard of the pizza effect. That is, until Bob Lucky commented on my Cornish pasty post.* The Cornish pasty’s export to other parts of the world with emigrants,…
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Every morning I walk in a bit of woodland near our house in Austin, Texas. Apart from a few splendid oaks, it’s mostly second growth. What astounds me, each and…
Read moreDo Those Who Cultivate Rice Paddies Think Holistically and Lag Industrially?
Nothing is more unsettling intellectually than finding serious researchers in other disciplines take for granted presumptions that you find questionable. And unsettled is how the article “Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within…
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