The unspeakable depression of lighting the fires every morning with papers of a year ago, and getting glimpses of optimistic headlines as they go up in smoke.

George Orwell, 70 years ago ....

On World Food Day few interventions will have as powerful effect on the world’s poorest as access to micronutrients.

I see a line like that and I think, “Wow, someone gets it.” Then I read on and I discover that Go Keith ¹ is talking about supplements. Not surprising, I suppose, as his websi...

I know I’ve neglected this site lately, and I know that people who apologize for neglecting their sites are a pain in the butt. But ... I haven’t been entirely idle elsewhere. There really does seem to be some set number of words in me each day, replenished each night, and if I spend them some place...

People tell me that they can lose hours on YouTube. I don’t get it. Sure, there are millions of good things there. But they are buried among squillions of not such good things. I seldom find anything of stunning interest just by goofing around. So I was pleased, astonished, surprised and delighted t...

I need to chase down the full-length version of this movie. Not because pastry is my thing; it isn’t. But because documentary is.