Fad diets Too good to be true The average American starts in on a fad diet four times a year. A quarter give up after two weeks. What are they hoping for? Continue Reading →
Empire and grain From prehistory to today, empires grew on their ability to tax grains The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today. Continue Reading →
Grain and finance The need to buy and sell wheat created modern commerce Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat. Continue Reading →
Grain and transport As wheat travelled, it created the modern world Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world Continue Reading →
Persephone’s secret The Eleusinian Mysteries and the making of the modern economy Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about? Continue Reading →