Scandals below the fold

China is having another food scandal...

and what is it about the Chinese drywall problem I keep hearing about?

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The founding mother of feminism was manipulated by a charming con man, but never mind.

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the mystery of the bog bodies/

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Lamenting about the sexual paranoia spread by the Wilde trial.

I'd feel sorrier for the guy if he hadn't been exploiting young boys....but never mind...this part is usually ignored because he was a big shot, and anyway they were lower class kids.
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The scandal of DNA was that the woman whose photograph enabled the discovery of it's structure has been ignored and even ridiculed.
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Thoreau ate"rye and Indian meal without yeast, potatoes, rice, a very little salt pork, molasses, and salt; and my drink, water. It was fit that I should live on rice, mainly, who love so well the philosophy of India."

So why didn't Thoreau die of Pellegra (corn lacks niacin) or BeriBeri?

He reports eating the weed purslane, which is high in vitamin C, which is why he probably never got scurvy, but the real "secret" to living cheap is this:


To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally...

Yup. He mooched meals cooked by nearby housewives, who were never asked of what they thought.
on the other hand, one suspects his chronic malnutrition was the reason he died of Tuberculosis at age 44...
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