Jeremy Cherfas

One of the stranger aspects of RSS feeds is when a long dormant site springs back into life. Usually, I'm glad. This time, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that Freakonomicsbook.com is now in the hands of someone else.

TIL that only 5% of podcasts have been updated in the past 90 days ... and mine was one of them

https://podcastindex.org/

The alternative book page at micro.blog is a more interesting to a straight Amazon link, but I do not understand how a new book finds its way onto that list.

New edition of Eat This Newsletter up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-133-entirely-whole/ with thanks to @bittman @PhilMagowa_n @vidya83 @IsaRossellini and many others.

I still have questions: Were there forms of human #malaria in South America before the slave trade?

What fevers did local people use #cinchona bark to cure?

I’m sure there is an answer. I just have not been able to find it. Someone — anyone — please help.

Withnail and I has lost none of its charm over the past 35 years.

Slightly worrying; the new activity monitor (Xiaomi Mi-band 5) records 2846 steps to the 3000 of the old activity monitor (Garmin Vivofit). On the other hand, I have no good reason to trust the accuracy of the Garmin.

Just listened to fabulous @Transom_org show with @MairBosworth and Fiona Benson about their amazing series In The Company of Insects. Having heard Magicicada, I now I need to listen to them all. So do you, @nicolakidsbooks

Probably a good idea to disconnect the Photos feed while I iron out a lot of wrinkles.