The unspeakable depression of lighting the fires every morning with papers of a year ago, and getting glimpses of optimistic headlines as they go up in smoke.

George Orwell, 70 years ago ....

On World Food Day few interventions will have as powerful effect on the world’s poorest as access to micronutrients.

I see a line like that and I think, “Wow, someone gets it.” Then I read on and I discover that Go Keith 1 is talking about supplements. Not surprising, I suppose, as his websi...

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A curl of butter on the end of a knife

I don't really miss it, and yet ...

Consider butter.

After whinging a bit about not being able to keep up here, and contemplating some other platform, I did a bit of looking around and was reminded of this WordPress feature, which I seldom used before: Press It « WordPress Codex. It does make a quick posting pretty easy. Maybe all I need to do to ma...

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I know I’ve neglected this site lately, and I know that people who apologize for neglecting their sites are a pain in the butt. But ... I haven’t been entirely idle elsewhere. There really does seem to be some set number of words in me each day, replenished each night, and if I spend them some place...

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