Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
In business, success and growth are generally synonymous. There’s a generalized feeling that if something isn’t growing it is dying. Think of Amazon, which lost money for nine consecutive years...
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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
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How to Grow Everything You Eat
How to Grow Everything Extreme opinions attract the most attention online. This dynamic can be innocuous, if stupid, as in the case of sports, or incredibly corrosive, as in the...
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Pork Inferno
Pork Inferno When cooking goes wrong Building a cinderblock oven is simple. Smooth out an area of ground, decide on a size, then stack up four courses of cinderblocks, leaving...
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Werewolf Agriculture
Werewolf Agriculture The spookiest thing about werewolves (aside, perhaps, from being giant, bloodthirsty man-beasts) is their double nature; the werewolf that comes prowling around your door one night might return...
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Cornell Pork Chops
Cornell Pork Chops A new twist on an old favorite If you’ve spent any time in central or western New York, you’ve likely noticed that lots of groups from churches...
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Real Spontaneous Combustion
Real Spontaneous Combustion Why hay lights itself on fire As a kid I was enthralled by and terrified of spontaneous human combustion. The thought that I might be walking out...
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Slow Cooked Lamb Shoulder Roast
Slow Cooked Lamb Shoulder Roast Tender, flavorful lamb in a simple pan sauce For some reason many people find cooking lamb intimidating. part of the reason is likely a bad...
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The Money Saving Garden
The Money Saving Garden Intuitively, a vegetable garden should be an easy money saver; put some seeds in the ground, pull up a few weeds, and before you know it...
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Shallow Roots
Shallow Roots The gardening season in central New York is short. Nights stay cold deep into spring, and two years ago all the squash got killed by a frost on...
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The Global Burden of Disease
The Global Burden of Disease I have been experiencing something of an epistemic crisis, which is a fancy way of saying I’m less sure about not just what I know,...
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How Bad Will Food Shortages Get?
How Bad Will Food Shortages Get? In the spring of 2020, as lockdowns spread across the country, there were a couple weeks in which supermarkets emptied out, with meat and...
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Does All Beef Contain Antibiotics? Does Chicken?
Does All Beef Contain Antibiotics? Does Chicken? The results of a new study are disappointing A recent study by researchers at George Washington University found that 15% of a broad...
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Hair of the Dog
Hair of the Dog The greatest mystery on the farm is what’s going on with Oban’s coat Oban has always had too much hair. As a puppy he looked like...
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How Bad Are Seed Oils?
How Bad Are Seed Oils? The latest nutritional fad Have you heard that seed oils are killing you? That they cause inflammation, cancer, diabetes, all manner of mental illness, and...
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