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Fresh vegetables represent peak nutrition — just picked, just purchased, the full complement of vitamins and minerals intact. Frozen vegetables are a compromise: processed, degraded, the inferior option you choose when fresh isn’t available or budget is tight. The hierarchy feels obvious. For many vegetables, the nutritional hierarchy is actually reversed. Fresh vegetables begin losing […]

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On July 17, 1864, Jefferson Davis relieved General Joseph Johnston of command of the army defending Atlanta and replaced him with John Bell Hood. It was exactly the mistake Sherman needed the Confeder...

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Excerpted from You’re Doing It Wrong: Dump the Myths, Misconceptions, and Bad Advice You Believe, The math looks clean. Fat stores represent stored calories. Eat nothing, burn the stores, lose the weight. The more aggressively you restrict, the faster you get results. The body did not receive this math and responds to severe caloric restriction […]

We think of the South when we talk about American slavery. In 1703, New York City ranked second in the colonies by percentage of enslaved population — behind only Charleston. More than 42 percent of h...

Between roughly 800 and 1000 CE, the great Maya cities of the southern lowlands—Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque—were abandoned. Populations dispersed. The jungle took the monuments. A civilization th...

The advice has circulated in safety articles, on social media, and in well-meaning emails forwarded among people for years. If your car goes into the water, pull out the headrest, jam the metal posts ...

In November 2006, former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko drank tea in a London hotel bar. Three weeks later he was dead. The weapon was polonium-210, and choosing it tells you the ki...

The bluestones of Stonehenge weigh four tons each and came from the Preseli Hills of Wales—150 miles from Salisbury Plain. The builders had no metal tools, no wheels, no draft animals. That’s the logi...

At grocery stores across the country, brown eggs command a premium price over white eggs from the same display case. Consumers select them with the understanding that brown equals more natural, more n...

We remember Sherman as the man who never lost. That’s not quite the record. On June 27, 1864, he ordered a frontal assault on entrenched Confederate positions at Kennesaw Mountain, northwest of Atlanta. It cost him roughly 3,000 casualties against about 1,000 for Johnston’s dug-in defenders. The attack gained nothing. What interests me as a […]

Excerpted from You’re Doing It Wrong. It’s one of those first aid instructions so widely practiced that it feels officially sanctioned: nosebleed? Tilt your head back. Hold a tissue to your nose. Let ...

YouTube video by Bob Mayer

YouTube video by Bob Mayer

Excerpted from You’re Doing It Wrong The phrase comes from an old folk remedy for rabies: treat a bite from a rabid dog by applying hair from the same dog to the wound. The medical logic was nonexiste...

YouTube video by Bob Mayer

The hull breaches. Someone gets pulled out into the void and freezes solid, or explodes, or both, in about a second and a half. The physics of decompression is stranger than the movie version and cons...

Excerpt from You’re Doing It Wrong This was one I learned from my father on the old ’64 Valiant with three on the column– a lot of people don’t know what that last part means. I was taught this by my ...

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Excerpted from You’re Doing It Wrong This is one that seems logical, but most have it wrong. I did. Premium gasoline costs more per gallon. More expensive must mean better. Put premium in any car and ...

YouTube video by Bob Mayer

YouTube video by Bob Mayer

YouTube video by Bob Mayer