A new study highlighted in the Wall Street Journal says loneliness is up:  61 percent of Americans say they're lonely…

This will be my last post concerning the Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati over the weekend.  The lunch speaker was Congressman Thomas Massie from Kentucky and he described himself as a rogue congressman.  Though he's very conservative, he won't join the Freedom Caucus, which irritates his fellow conservatives but it maintains his autonomy.

his weekend we held the first national Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati.   It was like bathing under a refreshing shower all day, listening to folks who take personal liberty more seriously than government regulation…

I just returned home from the wonderful Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati on Friday.  We had 300 folks from around the country focusing on circumvention rather than compliance, celebrating food choice and learning about strategies to get the government out of our micro-biome.

Yet another confirmation that in the biological world it's not just 2 + 2 = 4 comes from a study looking at residual consequences of herbicides sprayed on sweet corn…

We're all familiar with food deserts.  Here is the official USDA definition of a food desert:  places where one-third of the population lives at least one mile away from the closest supermarket in urban areas and at least ten miles away in rural areas.

 My good friend and mentor Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money, has an interesting twist on certifications.  His gift is simplifying complex notions into either a formula or phrase. 

When I say the above phrase, scientists bristle.  But when THE ECONOMIST says it, apparently everyone's fine with it.  The reason I'm drawn to examples of subjective science is because the more our western culture worships science, the more hubris surrounds it.