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My own contention is that Stropharia cubensis, or a conspecific coprophilic species, was well established in Africa, Anatolia, and perhaps the Iranian Plateau millennia before the coming of the Indo-Europeans.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Clearly, just imprinting a document in clay is not enough to guarantee efficient, accurate and convenient data processing.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Terence McKenna on translating the Hermetic corpus over Plato:
... See moreNear the start of the Renaissance, Jemistus Pletho brought books to the Florentine council for translation. Medici said, “Plato can wait, I’m getting old, do the Hermetic Corpus first, it’s much more important, we’ll do Plato later.” A few years later, 1493, Cosmo Medici died and never
Truffles grow a few centimeters under the ground, on the roots of certain oak or hazelnut trees. During the season, from November until March, they can be tracked down by nose, providing you have sensitive enough equipment. The supreme truffle detector is the pig, who is born with a fondness for the taste, and whose sense of smell in this case is
... See morePeter Mayle • A Year in Provence (Vintage Departures)
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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