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Cycling Two Abreast

Cycling two abreast in Ireland is legal, a protected practice, and it is safer.


Indoors / Outdoors (Defuse)

A talk given by The Inquisition at Defuse, on Wednesday 7th November 2012, as part of Designweek in Dublin, Ireland


Nürnburg’s Extra Bombs

Nürnburg got ripped to shreds by Bomber Harris’ boys. By how much appears to be open to debate.


Law & Morality

The preface to HLA Hart’s publication of his 1961 lecture series on the meeting of law and morality is as prevalent today as it ever was.


Foy – The Bodiless Head

A bodiless head is revered as being Saint Foy, who died a cruel death.


Coffee Haters

There are people out there who pretend to like coffee. Coffee Haters – you have been warned.


False Flags 2

False flag, covert ops by Americans against Americans? Sounds crazy, and so it was deemed.


Plastic 55 Years Ago

55 years ago Roland Barthes considered the importance of plastic and what it meant, as a substance and a symbol.


Cesare Borgia’s Party

The Pope, his son and fifty prostitutes – Cesare Borgia’s party.


Marriage – A Potted History

Marriage is thought by many to be a fixed rite, one which is immovable and inflexible. The truth is that it has not always seemed so…


Blinking Morse

The world was shocked when a victim of torture started blinking morse. The story of a US aviator captured in Vietnam.


Synecdoche

Synecdoche is a powerful, expressive linguistic device


1991 VG

Earth has had a recent fly past by the mysterious alien probe, 1991 VG. And it’s coming back. We’re screwed. Maybe.


Horace De Vere Cole

Horace De Vere Cole was the major protagonist and originator of the Dreadnought Hoax. Who was he? What was the Hoax?


Dueling Scars

Dueling scars, or schmiss, were highly sought after in late nineteenth century Germany.


Controlling Language

If language is thought, then our minds can be restricted.


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Fructose

Corn field image by FLickr user Zermie

When Americans travel they love to complain about the food, which elsewhere must lack to them the soaring highs and deep lows of US food. Likewise when we travel to the states, the food seems an over-sweetened and over-sauced compensation for basic blandness.

The reason? Americans like sugary food. Very sugary. According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition consumption of the synthetic sugar, high fructose corn syrup, increased tenfold between 1970 and 1990.

So, although it may sound like a sweeping generalisation to say that Americans’ food is overly sweet, bear one thing in mind. This is a practice which is growing globally, so it will only be a generalisation for a short while.

Why? Because the corn producers get federal support.

Bibliography
Reuters on the differences between glucose and fructose
US corn subsidies

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