Live while you are alive
Soon, most of us will stop eating beef, and it won’t be because we’ll all agree with vegans that meat is murder. It’ll be due to the logic of advanced capitalism. The alternatives to meat now being developed – plant-based substitutes and vat-grown meat produced from cultured animal cells – will taste the same as …
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Is it possible to be a comedian when you don’t know who you’re making jokes for? When you’re unsure who is listening, and what mood they’re in? How can comedians tell the jokes they want to tell in a world where the butt of those jokes can turn a community against you? Can comedy survive …
Being optimistic has been linked to a longer life, with those who see the glass as half full having a better chance of reaching 85 or older. Optimists also have a longer life in general, according to Boston University medical researchers who analysed data from two previous long-term research projects. They found the most optimistic …
Would you return a lost wallet lying in the street? Of course! Researchers left 17,000 wallets in 355 cities around the world (wow! big spenders!), some containing money, small or large amounts. They found that, when cash was found the finders tended to return it to the owners. If the wallets contained small amounts, say …
I remember the cheese of my childhood and the bread that we cut with a knife, When the children helped with the housework, and the men went to work, not the wife. The cheese never needed a fridge and the bread was all crusty and hot. The children were seldom unhappy and the wife was content with her …
