interesting things
Corn sex is complicated. As Michael Pollan observes in “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,†the whole affair is so freakishly difficult it’s hard to imagine how it ever evolved in the first place. Corn’s female organs are sheathed in a sort of vegetable chastity . . .
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/07/23/120723taco_talk_kolbert
In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of about twelve thousand people who live in the Peruvian Amazon. The Matsigenka hunt for monkeys and parrots, grow yucca and bananas, and build houses that they roof with . . .
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert