Sublime

In the course of his research, Rick found himself reading everything he could find on the historical treatment of wolves in the United States. The more he read, the more convinced he became that his ancestors had committed a terrible injustice. When the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, there were perhaps as many as two million wolves on the contin

In the United States at the turn of the century, racist rumormongering fanned the hysterical fear that southern blacks, maddened by cocaine, might attack whites. In 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed;

(Fadiman included the URL in his 2011 book, The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide.) Here, I found two items of particular interest, as well as several sub-wikis—documents under development—that hadn’t had a new entry for several years; it could be that public disclosure of the site in Fadiman’s book had led the creators to abandon it or move elsewhere o

It felt like diving into an ocean of warm pudding, but it smelled like a slaughterhouse.

Fructose is also the main sugar in fruit, adding to its halo. An all-natural fruit sugar that doesn’t raise blood sugars? Sounded pretty healthy. A wolf in sheep’s clothing? You bet your life. The difference between glucose and fructose will very literally kill you.

She knew exactly what those things were, and she knew she couldn’t stop him from doing them. He would just keep eating, and eating, and eating.

decision fatigue, and ego depletion.