Why do kids pick up so many infectious diseases?

Doesn’t it always seem like when there is one sick kid, within a week or so, every other child around has come down with the same sickness? ...

Flak Jacket

Inundated with Battle of Britain celebrations (celebs flying Spitfires, everyone making Woolton Pie) I turned to Flying Officer X. He was a ...

Speaking at Wise Traditions 2010

I'm happy to announce that I'll be presenting at the Weston A. Price foundation's 2010 Wise Traditions conference . The confere...

Protect Your Groundwater

It's National Protect Your Groundwater Day. Nearly 2/3 of Maine people get their drinking water from groundwater, so we have a large st...

17 Ways to Safeguard Your Heart

Meet Dr. Goldberg Twenty years ago, when Nieca Goldberg was in medical school, heart disease was known as a “man’s disease”―something most a...

Where's That Then? No 40

Hopefully a less tricky one this week. What can I say other than I'm often going round the ring road here and swerving into the local Wa...

Hawkey 2

I felt I had to show another Raymond Hawkey design. The first edition of this book has a tipped-in miniature dossier at the front with perfe...

All About Beauty

(Click on images to see full-size versions) Source: Hairset Magazine, May 1964

Dogen Zenji on Nutritionism

Dogen Zenji was the man who brought the Soto lineage of Zen Buddhism to Japan. He was a prolific writer, and many of his texts are respecte...