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The story of how saturated fat came to be vilified should mention the work of American scientist Ancel Keys. Keys was an eloquent and dynamic early promoter of the link between saturated fat intake, cholesterol levels, and heart disease. Keys received notoriety in the 1960s for his efforts to transition the public away from saturated fats to replac
... See moreMark Sisson • The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
David Keith, a professor of applied physics at Harvard, has been described as “perhaps the foremost proponent of geoengineering,” a characterization that he bristles at. “I’m a proponent of reality,” he wrote in a letter to the editor of The New York Times in 2015. Keith founded the university’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program in 2017, and he
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
had to step over supine protesters with signs saying “Dead Gazan.” Once again I had to snap out of it in order to defend Israel in public.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Le 17, la guerre du Golfe éclata. Toutes les escapades élyséennes furent évidemment annulées. Comme tous les autres Français, je m’assis alors devant la télévision et regardais comment s’y prenait l’Amérique pour embobiner le monde. Altération de la réalité. Malversations sémantiques. Falsification des causes. Amplification des effets. Témoignages
... See moreJean-Paul Dubois • Une vie française - Prix Femina 2004 (French Edition)
COUNT BERNADOTTE PRESSED ON, not only urging Israel to permit the refugees to return, but suggesting it relinquish the Negev, Jerusalem, the Haifa port (which would be internationalized), the international airport at Lydda (today, Ben-Gurion International Airport, Israel’s largest), and more. Not only was Bernadotte ignoring the fact that Israel wa
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
it was Martin Adams, who’d become disoriented in the storm and mistakenly started to descend the Kangshung Face into Tibet.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
At around midnight on February 28, 1986, as the Palmes were walking home from the cinema, an unknown assailant fired several shots at them, injuring Lisbet but killing Palme. The shock to this peaceful nation of having its prime minister gunned down in the street is hard to overestimate; indeed, Palme’s murder still resonates among an entire genera
... See moreMichael Booth • The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
When they reach the clinic, the guard sees the state Ousep is in and will not let them in. Ousep throws his press card at him and says, ‘Do you know who I am?’ The guard screams to another guard inside, ‘A man here has forgotten who he is. Is the psychiatrist on duty?’ And the guards laugh. Ousep threatens to call the chief minister. The guard says
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