Showing posts with label industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industry. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2021

British Fishing And Brexit

One of the quaintest industries in Britain is the fishing industry. It lost all of its viability in 1973 when the government sold it out to the European Union by becoming a member. Since then it had been a long tale of bankruptcy and buyout to foreign nations who were cleverer than the clumsy fools in 10 Downing Street at that time and since then.

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

The Shamans Got It Right: Placebo Works

The results from a study into the workings of placebo products and the placebo effect show that a harmless substitute 'medication' works. The compound being made up of sugar or flour works just as well as the real thing containing pharmaceutically active components. Conclusions may be drawn with wide-ranging consequences.


Sunday, October 27, 2013

Organic: What the Label Doesn't Say

As everything these days sells better when labelled organic, I wondered what is so new about it to make it either hip or hype? Reading this will help your health and your purse.


Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Kissing is Dead in this Era

I have to castrate this article to conform to the dirty mind of some dirty old man responsible for placing ads with Google Adsense: Channels showing you know what and explicit pictorial overload swamp all aspects of everyday life and dominate news and social media. We live in an era of publicly displayed private things and of people making a spectacle of their emotions. The good old private and sincere kiss seems threatened by extinction. French philosopher Alexandre Lacroix accused the explicit show of people doing certain things of having committed murder on kissing in his last book Contribution à la théorie du baiser.