Category: Short Form
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The Humble Potato: An Invisible Agent of History
For many of us, the potato blends in with the background in grocery stores and on restaurant menus. Recently, however, I have begun to see it in a new light. As philosopher Bertrand Russell describes how his “useless knowledge” about the apricot’s history enriched his appreciation of the fruit, my…
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On Cargo Cult Thinking
Published Aug 2016, Credit to Matt for editing I was never one of the cool kids when I was little. However, when I entered middle school, I decided to attempt to climb a few rungs up the social ladder. My middle school days fell in the early 1990s, when otherwise…