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Deep Nutrition (opens the original)
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A deep dive into Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan. In mice carrying the viable yellow agouti allele, females fed pellets enriched with vitamin B12, folic acid, choline and betaine produce brown-coated pups, called pseudoagouti, of normal build, while unsupplemented females produce yellow, obese pups. The two litters are genetically identical: what differs is DNA methylation near the agouti locus, denser in the pseudoagouti, which silences expression of the allele. It is that allele, and not
Glucose Revolution (opens the original)
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A deep dive into Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspé. Plants assemble, out of air and water, a small molecule that serves them as both fuel and building material: glucose. Jan Baptist van Helmont proved it in the 1640s without having the word for it. He planted a willow weighing two point three kilos in a pot of soil he had weighed, watered it for five years, then weighed everything again: the tree had reached seventy six and a half kilos while the soil in the pot had lost only some fifty gra
The Big Leap (opens the original)
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A deep dive into The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. Everyone carries an inner thermostat that sets how much love, success, and creativity they allow themselves to feel. As soon as life rises above that setting, a worry, a criticism, an argument, or an illness pulls us back into the familiar zone where we feel safe. This is the Upper Limit Problem, and no one is entirely free of it. A father sitting in his office one afternoon feels perfectly good, for no particular reason. A few seconds later he pic
Bird by Bird (opens the original)
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A deep dive into Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. One evening, in the family house in Bolinas, a ten-year-old boy sits at the kitchen table, surrounded by paper, pencils and books about birds he has never opened. His report, which he has had three months to prepare, is due the next day. He is close to tears, paralysed by the size of the task. His father, a writer, sits down beside him, puts an arm around his shoulders and says: "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird." His younger sister wil
Creative Confidence (opens the original)
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A deep dive into Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley & David Kelley. Creative confidence is the belief that you can change the world around you, built on two abilities that cannot exist without each other: generating new ideas and having the courage to try them out. This belief is not reserved for a caste of "creatives": it is an ordinary human capacity, present in every child, that school and social life extinguish in most adults. In Tibetan, the closest word to "creativity" means "natural." The
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