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July 9, 2013

August Turak: "The Economic Miracle of Mepkin Abbey"

Read an excerpt from “The Economic of Mepkin Abbey,” the first chapter of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks, by August Turak.

July 1, 2013

Laura Frost: You probably didn’t read the most telling part of Orwell’s “1984″—the appendix

Read an article by Laura Frost in which she discusses the crucial importance of the appendix to George Orwell’s classic, 1984.

June 30, 2013

Dickson D. Despommier on What We Can Learn from Parasites

“Despite all our efforts, the parasites still have the upper hand. The question is: Do we have to sit there and take it like all the other hapless host species on our planet? Or can we use our ingenuity and...

June 28, 2013

University Press Roundup

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June 28, 2013

An Interview with Gyorgy Scrinis

Read an interview with Gyorgy Scrinis, author of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice.

June 27, 2013

Gyorgy Scrinis on Alternatives to Nutritionism

“Nutrition experts can either lead or be led by the burgeoning food-quality movement and can choose to play a key role in developing food-quality literacy and food policies that promote and protect the quality of our food.”—Gyorgy Scrinis In the...

June 26, 2013

Gyorgy Scrinis on the Commodification of Nutritionism

“Food corporations have colonized the nutriscape, flooding the food supply with nutritionally engineered products and nutritional marketing claims and accentuating the nutritional anxieties and nutritional needs of consumers—needs that these corporations are well placed to commodify and exploit.”—Gyorgy Scrinis, Nutritionism...

June 25, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Sports, Italian Food, Pests, and The Problem with Pleasure

The following books are now available: Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers Benjamin C. Alamar Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation Massimo Montanari People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning From Our Body’s...

June 25, 2013

Gyorgy Scrinis on Nutritionism

The following post is by Gyorgy Scrinis, author of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice: Does the food you’re eating contain good or bad fats, good or bad carbs, vitamin D, fiber, calcium, antioxidants, cheap calories, or empty...

June 21, 2013

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June 21, 2013

Donna Dickenson: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

“Under the pressure of corporate interests and neoliberal policies, we’ve lost sight of the idea of the commons in biomedicine—but it has only disappeared temporarily from view. Reclaiming biotechnology for the greater good will involve resurrecting the commons.”—Donna Dickenson In...