and grandma the poisoner
"At first, my mother was the only one who’d refuse to eat Grandma’s food, and I thought she was being paranoid. Then I started noticing that every time I went to Grandma’s, I’d pass out on the couch or on the train on the way back to the city. When I stopped eating Grandma’s food, my brother thought I was paranoid. But I stopped passing out, and pretty soon he stopped eating Grandma’s food too."Curiosity leads me to these thing, indirectly. The "why, what am I reading" moment hasn't gone. A link from Maggie's Farm lead me to pallets.
"There are approximately two billion wooden shipping pallets in the United States. They are in the holds of tractor-trailers, transporting Honey Nut Cheerios and oysters and penicillin and just about any other product you can think of: sweaters, copper wire, lab mice, and so on."Curiosity of the industrial, especially of the ubiquitous type. The original article's site I didn't find of much interest. A little back track to Marginal Revolution.
The advice to not get lost in the encyclopedias from an early library lesson floats by. The internet move faster than a book and I'm not trying to finish a research paper, and the advice is ignored once more. The other link on the page is best long reads of the year. And we're clicking.
