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15 Paleo Diet Friendly Documentary Films

Andrew — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:57:43 +0000

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 [...]

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Short Guys Really Aren’t More Attractive?

Andrew — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:58:06 +0000

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. [...]

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Agriculture Creates Excess Population

Andrew — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:01:28 +0000

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, [...]

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The Missing Link (In My Theory of Marketing & Branding): How Pleasure Works by Paul Bloom

Andrew — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:57:50 +0000

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 [...]

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Quit Your Job: Labor Day Anarchy Edition

Andrew — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:10:56 +0000

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 [...]

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Zoo Animals Become Psychotic. You Are an Animal in a Zoo.

Andrew — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:58:42 +0000

Richard Manning, author of Against the Grain (2004), frames civilization as a human zoo that makes us all psychotic. Hunter-gatherers who observe domesticated humans literally think we’re crazy. A few important snippets: “Think of an animal in the zoo. It’s deprived of things that keep that animal going — the smells, the sights, the sounds, [...]

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The Vegetarian Narrative Thrives on Scarcity

Andrew — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:39:59 +0000

It disturbs me that vegetarians/vegans didn't seem to take the briefest of moments to reflect on a report of impending water shortages as an indictment of farming's inherent unsustainability, but spoke of it enthusiastically as a vindication of their ideology.

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Building a Paleo Intentional Community

Andrew — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:51:39 +0000

Exploring the theory and implementation of an intentional paleo community by drawing from hunter-gatherer anthropology and evolved human psychology.

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Your Brain on Nature Vs. Life in a Box

Andrew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:57:56 +0000

Why nature? I’ll admit it, I used to be skeptical of nature — not that I didn’t enjoy nature, but I wasn’t satisfyingly convinced that nature was necessary. I always appreciated it, but I was stuck in some postmodern relativist loop where everything was too subjective to trust. Despite my own intuitions, I also wasn’t [...]

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Think Like a Geek. Eat Like a Hunter. Train Like a Fighter. Look Like a Model.

Andrew — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:29:52 +0000

The fitness community surrounding "paleo" doesn't work for me. I don't mean it doesn't physically work, I mean that I don't find it satisfying in the context of pursuing a life less agrarian. I quit searching for the perfect thing a while ago. I couldn't bury the compulsion any longer, and I started building stuff.

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