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  • A Few Thoughts on Boredom

    A Few Thoughts on Boredom

    I have a vivid recollection from childhood. I lay beside a rhombus of sunlight on the living room floor of the house in which I grew up. The scratchy wool...

    Garth Brown |

  • Farm Beauty Standards

    Farm Beauty Standards

    People have written endlessly about beauty standards and the malign influence of advertising, Instagram, and fashion magazines on our collective idea of what a healthy, attractive human looks like. But...

    Garth Brown |

  • Why We're Getting Worse at Thinking

    Why We're Getting Worse at Thinking

    Thinking about thoughts is tricky, and writing about thinking about thoughts is trickier still. There are endless very interesting discussions to be had about just what a thought is: completely...

    Garth Brown |

  • Plastic Brains and Hard Choices

    Plastic Brains and Hard Choices

    It seems like a day can’t go past without microplastics turning up in some new part of the human body. Recent studies have claimed to find them in lungs, livers,...

    Garth Brown |

  • Food Should Be Less Efficient

    Food Should Be Less Efficient

    I love the immediacy of farming. Unlike, say, developing an SaaS business that provides a suite of analytics tools designed to help identify and forecast trends in mid cap stocks,...

    Garth Brown |

  • Regenerative Farming Gets Sprayed

    Regenerative Farming Gets Sprayed

    A vehicle used to spray pesticides at the scale required by industrial ag looks like a combination of a tractor, a truck, and a crane. It sits on narrow, tall...

    Garth Brown |

  • Thinking In Circles

    Thinking In Circles

    If you’ve ever been bored on a long flight across America, you may have looked out your window and noticed clusters of perfect circles traced on the ground below. These...

    Garth Brown |

  • Do Beetles Have Taste Buds?

    Do Beetles Have Taste Buds?

    Berries are the purest food. I don’t mean this in some sort of moral or sense, and I don’t mean that they are the healthiest food. What I mean is...

    Garth Brown |

  • Dogs and Overbreeding

    Dogs and Overbreeding

    My son Ellis has recently acquired a book about dogs. In addition to numerous stories about notable canines through history (which the book calls “Top Dogs”, of course) it discusses...

    Garth Brown |

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    It's Time to Give Up On Lab-Grown Meat

    Whether or not lab grown meat ever makes it into grocery stores will hinge on cost. No one disputes the fact that certain genetic lines of cow cells can be...

    Garth Brown |

  • Grilled miso chicken wings with a side of salad

    Grilled Chicken Wings in Miso Marinade

    Confession time: I don't like wings very much. At least, I don't like the ones that come from a pizza parlor, deep fried then tossed in so much syrupy sauce...

    Garth Brown |