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Quit Your Job: Labor Day Anarchy Edition

June 14, 2014
Selected Passages from “The Abolition of Work” by Bob Black (bold added). “No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have […] Evolvify recommends this paleo diet compatible body hacking program...
Agriculture Creates Excess Population
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Agriculture Creates Excess Population

June 2, 2014
Richard Manning, author of Against the Grain (2004), discusses the ‘Green Revolution’ and the end of cheap oil. It’s only about 5 minutes, and well worth the time. A few important quotes: “agriculture, because it’s catastrophic, must constantly have new land. it also continuously needs new land because it creates excess population… for 10,000 years, […] Evolvify recommends this paleo diet compatible body hacking program...
Short Guys Really Aren’t More Attractive?
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Short Guys Really Aren’t More Attractive?

May 30, 2014
A while ago, I stumbled across an article that made me think twice about the evolution of human stature in terms of both natural and sexual selection. It wasn’t particularly well argued, but it did get me to think. One of the curiosities that popped into my head was the case of the African pygmies. […] Evolvify recommends this paleo diet compatible body hacking program...
Maple Syrup of the Native Americans
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Maple Syrup of the Native Americans

May 25, 2014
A Native American maple sugar camp, 1853. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Hi everyone, Andrew here with another food history post. I’m originally from Upstate New York, where maple syrup is kind of a big deal. My family has always had a special fondness for the stuff. The “pancake syrup” made of corn syrup was completely unknown in my house. We only used the real stuff, but sparingly (it’s so sweet!). Maple sugar candy was a favorite treat—but again—only in small amounts. A single 1/3 ounce leaf-shaped candy ...
15 Paleo Diet Friendly Documentary Films
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15 Paleo Diet Friendly Documentary Films

May 15, 2014
Okay okay okay, so only one of these explicitly promotes “paleo”. There are a few general guidelines I followed when putting together this list: Paleo isn’t just about humans eating an evolutionarily appropriate diet, but also eating plants and animals that are being fed an evolutionarily appropriate diet. Grain fed ruminants, vegetarian fed chickens, and […] Evolvify recommends this paleo diet compatible body hacking program...
The Missing Link (In My Theory of Marketing & Branding): How Pleasure Works by Paul Bloom
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The Missing Link (In My Theory of Marketing & Branding): How Pleasure Works by Paul Bloom

May 15, 2014
Evolvify was started in part as an extension of a book I was working on synthesizing and applying evolutionary psychology to branding. For whatever reason, when I started shopping that idea around to agents and publishers, I was nudged more in the direction of “paleo applied to lifestyle” in a wider sense. Even though I hadn’t begun […] Evolvify recommends this paleo diet compatible body hacking program...