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A reader, Bart Peuchot, writes: I would be very interested to have your view on this new publication for Nature. As you taught me, I checked the competing interests and it seems to be a perfect industry-funded publication. And then ,I ran across this Tweet (X) from @Stuart Gillespie: New

Julian Baggini.  How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. Granta, 2024.  443 pages.   I did a blurb for this one: How the World Eats is an enormously wide overview of how people throughout the entire world–from hunter-gatherers to NASA astronauts–view, exist within, manage, and try to

PCAST, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has released its REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT A Vision for Advancing Nutrition Science in the United States. I learned about the report from a Tweet (X):  I wrote about an earlier draft of the report in a previous post: The federal

James Merchant and Robert Martin, eds. Public Health Impacts of Industrial Farm Animal Production.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production with both authors about 15 years ago and was happy to do a blurb for their book. This

I first read about this in a daily newsletter I subscribe to, Bakery and Snacks:   The Doritos effect: How tartrazine turns tissues temporarily transparent. When a study draws parallels with H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, you know it’s bound to be captivating. Could this scientific leap bring us