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Fermentation as Metaphor
At the crossroads of our gut microbiota and food lies fermentation. What happens inside a jar of fermenting sauerkraut is a microcosm of what’s happening inside our guts.
Will Bulsiewicz MD • Fiber Fueled
Later, as we were doing the dishes, Gopal explained: “Ila sat through one of our Justice and Ecology retreats. She was in the session on biological and cultural diversity, which is framed around the web of life, which, obviously, involves a lot of dying, too. After it’s over, she’s like, ‘It’s not really a web. It’s more of a tangle.’ And everybody
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
We automatically think in metaphors. We talk of ideas as illuminating and bright, fizzing and incisive, or flat and dull. We see our world in spatial terms—rising and falling, moving forward or back. We speak metaphorically, too—we ‘ride’ bicycles, though not cars; we ‘harness’ ideas to a new purpose; we let our imaginations ‘take flight’. Biologic
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
We’re in dire need of a new cultural story to live by. Not to negate the old, as Sophie Strand writes, but to “compost” the stories that no longer serve us so they can become fertile ground from which a new story may emerge. A story that doesn’t tell us we’re separate from but deeply interconnected with all living beings. One that recognizes that h... See more