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How to Boycott Big Food (2013)

How to Boycott Big Food (2013)

FROM 2013: As with every such transition, the move from an industrial food diet to a homegrown, organic one is likely to occur in gradual stages. As people improve their gardening skills and devote more of their time and attention to sourcing healthy, natural foods from local growers and producers, they can slowly but surely eliminate the processed foods from their diets.

Interview 1886 – Scamdemic 2: Bird Flu Boogaloo (NWNW 558)

Interview 1886 – Scamdemic 2: Bird Flu Boogaloo (NWNW 558)

This week on the New World Next Week: The WHO is preparing to drop Scamdemic 2 with the bird flu bogeyman; Japan’s birthrate falls to yet another record low while the government plays dating app on the Titanic; and Adobe shoots itself in the foot with a disastrous privacy-destroying terms of service update.

Episode 460 – The Future of Food

Episode 460 – The Future of Food

New technologies are coming online that threaten to upend our understanding of food altogether. Technologies that could, ultimately, begin altering the human species itself…

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Do NOT Go Back to Sleep! This is NOT the End!

Remember the end of The Return of the Jedi? It's something I've referenced a few times because it's a handy cultural signifier for a certain idea. For those who don't know, here's the gist: Darth Vader is dead. The Empire has fallen. The Rebels have won! Time to...

What Hitchcock Taught the Social Engineers

You'll recall that late last year I was exploring the central role that narrative plays in shaping our lives. Although it may sound trivial at first glance, story-telling is not just a fundamental part of the human experience, it is one of the primary ways we come to...

2022: The Year Ahead

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that there are many ways that the current global crisis could play out in 2022 and, sadly, none of them involve everyone joining hands and singing "Kumbaya" until the Gateses and the Schwabs of the world have a change of heart about...

Resistance is Fertile!

Whether you're a die-hard Trekkie or someone who would never be caught dead watching one of those silly sci-fi shows, if you were around in the '90s you will remember the Borg catchphrase: "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." For those not in the know, the...

Biosecurity Theatre

You know about "security theatre," right? That's the kind of take-off-your-shoes-and-belt nonsense that was instituted at the airport post-9/11 to give passengers the feeling that the government was protecting them from those dastardly Al-CIA-da terrorists. Of course,...

Why We Must #ExposeBillGates

Welcome. If you're reading these words, then it's likely that you're here because of the #ExposeBillGates global day of action. Perhaps you're here out of curiosity. Perhaps you came here to argue with crazy conspiracy theorists. Perhaps you already know about the...

Rejoice! The Agora is Growing!

Have you entered a store without the mandated mask affixed to your face? Visited a friend in violation of a lockdown order? Frequented a New York bar that didn't offer "substantive" food to go with your beer? Congratulations! You're a thought criminal! And here's the...

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