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...Traditional - From the Lost WPA Files (yes, he's the reactionary). It's a collection of manuscripts from an unfinished Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) project to compile local food customs into a book. Kurlansky presents a startling snapshot of our nation's culinary past: a country of squirrel and opossum eaters, where few recipes didn't include cornmeal, molasses or salt pork and ash was a totally acceptable spice. "All these things like hoecakes and this Southern kind of baking - I wish there was more of that," says Kurlansky of the U.S.'s disappearing dishes. "In the West...
...governments, that's real cause for concern. It might not show up in the national accounts, but trust is vital for an economy to work. When we stash wages or savings with banks, we trust they'll be safe and accessible when we need them. When we squirrel money into a pension, we trust it'll pay back when we retire. In a paper published in 2006, academics from Italy, the Netherlands and Canada even found that trust levels between citizens of two countries has a significant effect on the investment decisions of venture capital firms, even after accounting...
...Well, I'm hungry. My mother is 89 and stopped practicing as a shrink at 88. It's really something. I do remember that when I was learning to drive - talking about keeping the shrink hat on all the time - we were driving together, and I accidentally hit a squirrel and felt horrible. My mother was like, Don't worry about it; the squirrel clearly displayed suicidal tendencies anyway...
...Harvard squirrels are not afraid of machines. The Archive documents one particularly disurbing episode involving a squirrel in a Xerox machine. Let's just say it gives new meaning to the phrase "bad experience at Widener...
Okay, so maybe every Harvard student doesn’t have to know any of these things. At all. Under any circumstance. Regardless, if anyone really did want to learn about the showdown between squirrels and dogs, the evolution of the connotation behind the word “squirrel,” and every single Harvard-related newspaper article about squirrel encounters, the Harvard Squirrel Archive is surely a new addition to the Bookmarks Bar. For FlyBy and the remaining 99.99% of the population, this is just another huge WTF: a test case in what can happen when the internet...