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    Bamboozling booze guidance for old Brits

    Bamboozling booze guidance for old Brits

                Health advice used to be like cheap ball caps: one size fit all. Over the years, it has become more discriminating, with guidance that differentiates between ages, genders, ethnicity and more. And in the decades ahead, we’ll be making even finer cuts. Your doctor will run a DNA scan...
    Is it safe to eat snakes?

    Is it safe to eat snakes?

                  Well, is it? We don’t know. This article from Outside raises and presumably answers the question. We don’t know because we haven’t read it. We don’t need to. Here’s why: Let’s say you’re on a long hike…no, call it a trek, alone, in a wilderness. A wasteland. And...
    When it comes to sweating the small stuff, Steve Green is our Yoda, our guru, our sensei

    When it comes to sweating the small stuff, Steve Green is our Yoda, our guru, our sensei

                  If you’re interested in laying down some of your backpacking burden, you can find plenty of advice in bookstores and online.  (Type “ultralight backpacking” into the YouTube search box and you’ll get over 3,100 videos.) But no one synthesizes the opposite poles of obsessive-compulsive, shorten-and-drill-out-your-toothbrush hysteria and utterly...