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he decided to ignore orders and succumb to the temptation of fresh fruit and red meat. They spent nearly five weeks in Table Bay.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in New Mexico
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The brain is provided with a number of enzyme systems which serve to co-ordinate its workings. Some of these enzymes regulate the supply of glucose to the brain cells. Mescalin inhibits the production of these enzymes and thus lowers the amount of glucose available to an organ that is in constant need of sugar.
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
By 1905, the banana trade was United Fruit. The company owned the most ships, planted the most fields, had the most money, and controlled both supply and demand: supply by planting more or less rhizomes, demand by increasing the market. Beginning around this time, U.F. stationed an agent at South Ferry terminal in New York, where the Ellis Island F
... See moreRich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
when there is a mixture of 'good' coins with high silver content and 'bad' coins that have been clipped or debased circulating, the public will hoard the valuable good ones and pass on the bad ones to others.
Michael Green • In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty (Kindle Single)

Dr. Keys’s Minnesota Starvation Experiment first documented the effect of “semi-starvation neurosis.” People who lose weight dream about food. They obsess about food. All they can think about is food. Interest in all else diminishes. This behavior is not some strange affliction of the obese. In fact, it’s entirely hormonally driven and normal. The
... See moreJason Fung • The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (The Wellness Code)
Él fue quien trajo a los Estados Unidos a la cantante y bailarina brasileña Carmen Miranda (la señorita Chiquita Banana de los espectáculos y las películas), que obtendría enorme éxito con sus sombreros de racimos de plátanos, y que en sus canciones promovía con extraordinaria eficacia esa fruta que, gracias a aquellos esfuerzos publicitarios, form
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