A study released in Nature and reported in The Economist, conducted at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg shows much farther-ranging affects in the human micro-biome than originally thought.

 I just finished a wonderful book, Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose, subtitled "Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West."  It's a long read and daunting to look at, but when I started, I couldn't put it down and have stayed up late finishing it. 

A new study highlighted in the Wall Street Journal says loneliness is up:  61 percent of Americans say they're lonely…

This will be my last post concerning the Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati over the weekend.  The lunch speaker was Congressman Thomas Massie from Kentucky and he described himself as a rogue congressman.  Though he's very conservative, he won't join the Freedom Caucus, which irritates his fellow conservatives but it maintains his autonomy.

his weekend we held the first national Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati.   It was like bathing under a refreshing shower all day, listening to folks who take personal liberty more seriously than government regulation…

I just returned home from the wonderful Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati on Friday.  We had 300 folks from around the country focusing on circumvention rather than compliance, celebrating food choice and learning about strategies to get the government out of our micro-biome.

Yet another confirmation that in the biological world it's not just 2 + 2 = 4 comes from a study looking at residual consequences of herbicides sprayed on sweet corn…