(Inago no Tukudani: Locust with sweet soy sauce savor) Aside from in the United States, Canada and Europe, most cultures eat insects for their taste, nutritional value and availability. (from HowStuffWorks.com) It’s called entomophagy, literal translation from Greek entomos, insect and phagein, to eat…and it happens all the time. All you picky Canadians, Europeans and United Statesians who [...]
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you eat bugs, you just don’t know it. (til now)
Posted in Activism, Science, Senses, The Importance of Decay, tagged Aborigines, Blake Newton, Drosophila, eating insects, entomophagy, Food and Drug Administration, John the Baptist, locusts, Sophie Rousmaniere, taboo on September 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
van gogh the weaver.
Posted in Color, Form from Chaos, Senses, Suffering artists, Vincent van Gogh, tagged box of yarn, Debora Silverman, Goethe, Goethe Color Theory, Moses Harris, Van Gogh, weaving on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(color wheel by Moses Harris–1766) Did you know that if you stare at a yellow circle for a minute or two and then close your eyes, you will see a purple circle floating around on the back of your eyelids? And that if you stare at a blue circle and then close your eyes you’ll [...]
colors are vibrations (just like everything else)
Posted in Color, Science, Senses, Unified Theory: Bringing Together Seemingly Paradoxical Elements, tagged Brahma Kumaris, brussels sprouts, color, cortex, electron, Memory of the Garden at Etten, optic nerve, particle physics, photons, Victoria Findlay, Vincent Van Gogh on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My lady told me the other night, over a divine meal of roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts (it really is brussels sprouts! with an extra s! I couldn’t figure out why it was underlining it at first), that she doesn’t like it when scientists (specifically particle physicists) dissect the world into tinier and [...]
