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28 NOVEMBER, 2012

Maira Kalman on Art and the Power of Not Thinking

“There’s a certain to do whatever I want to do, which I guess is the definition of being an artist.”

16 NOVEMBER, 2012

How Thomas Jefferson Pioneered the Tomato, Championed Urban Farming, and Taught Americans to Make Coffee

“There is not a shoot of grass that springs uninteresting to me.”

03 JULY, 2012

Digesting the Most Important Food Politics Book of the Past 50 Years

Up close and personal with a book whose highest aspiration is to one day be quaint.

16 FEBRUARY, 2012

David Brooks on the Dangerous Division Between Reason and Emotion, Animated

The false division of the self, or what’s wrong with using physics to assess human behavior.