Some things I learned in my food and nutrition journey over the last couple of years.
Most people know about essential amino acids, which human bodies rely of food proteins for, but essential fatty acids are overlooked. Why? First of all “fatty acids” sounds terrible, like something nobody wants, and second of all the public health focus on excess calorie consumption deemphasizes the importance of fats.
Continue reading Human Bodies Need These Often-Overlooked NutrientsThis is a big deal in the kitchen, workshop, and household cleaning. Just starting this article.
Most everyday liquids are either water-based or oil-based. More generally things are either hydrophilic (water loving) or oleophilic (oil loving).
Continue reading Oil and Water Don’t MixHealthy vegetarians are conscious of food choices and vegans even more so.
Humans need protein for pretty much everything that happens inside, and only some types of plant foods have notable amounts. Anything that’s a seed, botanically speaking, has enough protein to pay attention to. That includes:
Continue reading A Vegan Primer on Conscious EatingWhy is space three-dimensional, and not two-dimensional, or four- or five- or more-dimensional? I mean the extended space dimensions, not the micro dimensions. Why does it have a certain number of dimensions at all?
It’s not hard from a verbal / spiritual / humanistic perspective to define free will… it’s the ability to decide what you think, free (at least partly) from outside influences such as other people, gods, or physics.
1) Everything is chemistry. Well, not literally everything, but all the things we interact with daily like food, shampoo, clothes, furniture, building materials and such. And the fields of nutrition, medicine, industrial processes, biology, geology, environmental science, planetary science and a lot of astronomy.
Continue reading Chemistry is AmazingThe basis for this is physics, but it impacts philosophy, religion, and everyday life, including our understanding of free will.
Continue reading Free Will and the Nature of TimeYes – it might not be real good at it, but close enough.
That’s at the viable living thing level, not yet considering whether it can expand into its environment or reproduce.
Ability to reproduce makes it a competitive living thing. Other living things are gonna develop the ability to reproduce, so you better too if you’re going to survive.
Continue reading Is the Earth – could a planet with living things be – a living thing?
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