Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on diets and our source of information around diets, and advocates slow information for understanding them—as well as understanding lifestyle options during the coronavirus pandemic, as reported here: What are colleges in Washington state doing this fall? Image source: previous vlogs
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FoodWISE, Ancel Keys, animal welfare, and Michael Appleby
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on diets and Ancel Keys, and offers a regular update on industrialized animal farming, here: Guardian update on factory farming Encouraging all to read the work of Dr. Michael Appleby: Dr. Michael Appleby
FoodWISE and time to take a look at your heart: Why care about the science of COVID
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on our personal world of food and our very public world of food science. What does it take to do science? Here’s a New York Times piece presenting startling information on COVID’s effect on the heart but compare, side-by-side with one of the studies cited: jamacardiology The message, and metamessage: take…
FoodWISE, universities opening, and faulty information—Stay safe, stay home if you can
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, although she’s slowing down (one paragraph tonight). looks like we’re going to be in lockdown for awhile! We’ve been talking about pivoting, not waiting. And, sadly, here is a good example: UNC Chapel Hill coronavirus cluster and closing … and…. amidst all the misinformation about COVID causes and cures, as here:…
FoodWISE, how we do science, women farmers
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, asks questions about science, and then mentions women in food production. Here, in the UK: women are the stewards Image: Gigi, milking sheep and making cheese—here, the first cut of curd
FoodWISE, cholesterol studies, and paying for college
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on wise food studies, and offers an article, on wise ways about thinking about college tuition this fall.
FoodWISE, eggs, science, and colleges opening (eggs, good idea—colleges, bad idea)
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on science, and mentions why “the biggest threat posed by reopening colleges is not to students, faculty, or staff, but to the surrounding community.” See here: cancel college
FoodWISE, egg yolks, science, and faculty layoffs
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on faulty science and faculty layoffs, as here: faculty layoffs Image: Earlier vlog
FoodWISE, science, ideas about contagious disease
Gigi at her book launch in January (Bellingham Washington) What do we believe? Can we borrow from history to see where our ideas on contagion come from, and how we act on them? Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on respectable science, and highlights “ancient” beliefs about contagious disease, as here: ancient wine windows
FoodWISE and honest science
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on the science of food and diets, but asks questions about the nature of science, as well. So, does Stanford, here: could Stanford be Cornell?