“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”.
Politics at its best is always about building a better future. We must always be mindful of the issue of intergenerational equity and fairness. Across all of our policy areas, we must focus on how we can build a better world with better opportunities for our children and young people of today and of tomorrow.” – Former finance minister Mathias Cormann calling on the world’s richest nations to develop an “ambitious and effective” plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in his first speech as head of the OECD.
Not sure why this pattern of the right, leaving politics and ending up exposing leftist ideas, is not used against the right more often......😂
~ via Adopted Father of the Ram named Cecil ...
This piece on alcohol and the human fixation on it is interesting throughout — and/because it includes the sentence: “For an illustration of what followed, I direct you to the film Dazed and Confused.”
But even presuming that this story of natural selection is right, it doesn’t explain why, 10 million years later, I like wine so much. “It should puzzle us more than it does,” Edward Slingerland writes in his wide-ranging and provocative new book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, “that one of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk.” The damage done by alcohol is profound: impaired cognition and motor skills, belligerence, injury, and vulnerability to all sorts of predation in the short run; damaged livers and brains, dysfunction, addiction, and early death as years of heavy drinking pile up. As the importance of alcohol as a caloric stopgap diminished, why didn’t evolution eventually lead us away from drinking-say, by favoring genotypes associated with hating alcohol’s taste? That it didn’t suggests that alcohol’s harms were, over the long haul, outweighed by some serious advantages.
These are all 52 of the Archibald Prize finalists for 2021
Sydney Bloggers of fine wine & dining in Sydney
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry blog
Sashimi sas blogger of fine dining
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