Monday, January 08, 2018

Quick notes: Moringa craze, Clean meat...

  • Moringa craze takes over: Drumstick leaves, the superfood of 2018... soon, poor Indians won't be able to afford it


  • Why fiber is good for you: Dietary fiber = undigested by humans = food for gut bacteria. Byproduct is short-chain fatty acids, absorbed by intestinal cells, which use it as fuel.


  • Clean meat: Cell-cultured “clean” meat is grown by extracting cells from an animal and then growing those cells in a bioreactor filled with a high-tech nutrient-dense liquid. The cells feed on the liquid and proliferate, producing chicken meat that’s molecularly identical to conventional meat without having ever slaughtered an animal.


  • Tax on disposable coffee cups: Bengaluru should consider this.


  • Maneeshaa Panchakam: He who is firmly established in the Pure Consciousness – be he a Chandala (outcaste) or a Brahmana, such a one is indeed worthy of being a Guru.

    ..dridha prajna api yasya asti chet, chandaalah astu sah tu dvijah astu guruh iti..



  • Bollywood's lack of ideas: What happened to all those life-changing films like V. Shantaram's Do Aankhen Barah Haath (about prison reform), Mehboob Khan's Mother India (about matriarchal pride and dignity), Bimal Roy's Sujata (about eradicating the caste system).....?


  • Slam vs Slam: Islamic State declares war on rival Hamas with video execution


  • It's Time to End Pak's Double Game: Pakistan concocted a complex strategy of cooperating on logistics and occasional help with hunting Al Qaeda leaders in exchange for massive U.S. aid, while simultaneously building out a clandestine program to reconstitute the Taliban.



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