They wanted affordable & livable housing. They got company towns by Nicolás Boullosa on December 21, 2023 Fed up with constraints around a lack of enough housing inventory around their sprawling offices that could alleviate pressure on …
Sarajevo Haggadah: teachings from a surviving book from Sepharad by Nicolás Boullosa on December 13, 2023 When done right, historical fiction broadens our understanding of things past, reminding us of the power of evocation. In our …
Little things that count: home materials, gardening, compost by Nicolás Boullosa on December 7, 2023 We know that our lack of patience as a civilization has reached its apex when companies invest their best engineering …
A quest for color: how ancient humans made enduring natural dyes by Nicolás Boullosa on November 30, 2023 Few non-fiction books turn out to be so magical and brave as to surpass a fiction reader’s expectations. Claude Lévi-Strauss …
Polynesia then & now: a family visit to the Big Island of Hawaii by Nicolás Boullosa on November 26, 2023 When we recently traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii, the biggest and least populated by locals and tourists among …
Insects: the effect of declining populations in ecosystems by Nicolás Boullosa on November 19, 2023 Insects represent by far the biggest diversity of all animals, with over a million known species of an estimated total …
Healthy food compromised? Arsenic in brown rice, lead in turmeric by Nicolás Boullosa on November 9, 2023 Bill Bryson’s engaging and hilariously encyclopedic (if such two words can go together) A Short History of Nearly Everything includes …
Is the rise of the dietary supplements a public health risk? by Nicolás Boullosa on November 2, 2023 Dietary supplements are mainly unregulated. Public health experts warn against the cure-all rhetoric boosting sales of an industry where supply …
The many things that all people across the Mediterranean have in common by Nicolás Boullosa on October 26, 2023 Mediterranean localism has been forged as much by quarrels and misunderstandings whose sources sometimes predate written culture. Still, no other …
Things where AI is an ally: deciphering damaged ancient texts by Nicolás Boullosa on October 19, 2023 At this point, we’ve been reading, and sometimes avoiding due to exhaustion, about the risks of the unraveling of AI …
