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Re: Is Sorghum a Healthy Grain? | NutritionFacts.org

Leisureguy — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 10:24:06 -0000

Black sorghum is readily available from Nature Nate's LLC — https://naturenatesllc.com — as a whole grain and also popped. I've ordered from them several times. It's a tasty whole grain, and I also have used cooked sorghum in making tempeh. Nature Nate's black sorghum is also sold at many stores across the US — there's a list of dealers on the website.

Re: The Self-Domesticated Ape

Leisureguy — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:20:25 -0000

I think one can see the same sort of bootstrapping in the development of language. Communicating via language offers significant survival benefits — specificity of warnings, ability to communicate things learned ("bad plant!") and plans ("you go there, I stay here, then we attack"), supporting socialization, increasing the store of group knowledge. Those who had difficulty in learning and using language were, I imagine, disadvantaged in getting resources and finding mates. So natural selection would favor improved language ability. I expect the development of written language pushed forward other innate abilities.

Re: Friday Favorites: Is Sorghum a Healthy Grain?

Leisureguy — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:59:40 -0000

I order my black sorghum from Nature Nate's. (It was hard to find, I admit.)

Re: Friday Favorites: What Are the Health Benefits of Sorghum?

Leisureguy — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:08:46 -0000

I finally found a good source of black sorghum — and a very nice vendor as well. The vendor is Nature Nate's in Washington state. The site includes a list of dealers who carry the products, but I live in Canada and wanted to order directly. Shipping costs were high, but the vendor agreed to refund some of the shipping costs. Current price of black sorghum is US$4/pound, and they also sell popped sorghum.

Re: BASIC BROL (BARLEY, RYE, OATS, AND LENTILS)

Leisureguy — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:17:25 -0000

This looks so good. I actually think I'll add Kamut and einkorn and go from BROKE. :)

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:47:22 -0000

In fact, I brought up the Roth matter in my initial comment. And I have seen little or no defense of Elmendorf's actions, only attacks on me (such as on my mysterious motivations — which I don't see as all that mysterious, as I've explained).

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:59:14 -0000

Thank you for a reasonable response, and also for being polite, something lacking in much of the discussion. I don't have a dog in this fight, but Donovan's background and prior work seems appropriate and we know from prior experience that Elmendorf is quick to fire (or put the kibosh on an invitation). The possibility of his acting in haste in another case seem not totally unlikely. That's all. I am surprised by the talk of hidden agendas and secret motivations. I am not so much adamant on the point I've made as not having been offered any evidence but merely personal insults, which are irrelevant to the case at hand.

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:56:56 -0000

You, on the other hand, are consistent. :)

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:15:31 -0000

Wow. Thanks for the exchange, Nancy. Revealing..

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:33:45 -0000

More silence more good. :)

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:32:42 -0000

If it is incorrect, I would be interested. "WTF" does not exactly contradict the information.

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:31:26 -0000

As I said, my point (which you call "sliming") is that Elmendorf already had basically admitted an error in his apparently hasty and ill-founded dismissal of the invitation to Roth, and based on what was said about Donovan's contributions, this struck me as similarly ill-founded. I wish you could avoid inflammatory language, but perhaps that is as much as you have in the way of argument.

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:41:16 -0000

When I wrote "based on the information available," I was referring to the information in the article, particularly the information about Donovan's work and career. The author of the article is Miless Herszenhorn, and I think that the career information is publicly available. Since you don't name the "someone" with an undisclosed agenda, I can't comment on that, but since the agenda is undisclosed, its nature, like the "someone," is also unknown — potentially "nasty," as you say, but also potentially benign. I have to say that you yourself seem to have an agenda which, though not explicitly disclosed, is obvious: to impugn the integrity of the report without offering anything factual. On the whole, I trust this report more than I trust your comments about it.

Re: Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say

Leisureguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:57:51 -0000

oBased on the information available, Elmendorf is starting to create a pattern of injudicious terminations. Once (Roth) might be a mistake (though an unforced error), but a second unjustified termination is moving toward a pattern. A third will clench it. I wonder how untenured Kennedy School faculty view Elmendorf.

Re: I Was Wrong About Mastodon

Leisureguy — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:07:11 -0000

Very interesting essay. I also relatively new to Mastodon (a month in), and like you I find it enjoyable and worthwhile, with a very positive vibe noticeably absent from Twitter.

I also was interested in how your reasoned (and reasonable) conclusions about Mastodon were belied by your actual experience when you used it. That pattern — arriving at a logical conclusion through abstract reasoning, only to find through experience that the conclusion was wrong — is so common that the Thomas Huxley quotation, "“the great tragedy of Science —the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact,” comes constantly into play. In the specific field of law, the same thought was expressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." And yet Libertarians seem not to have learned how one must test against the reality of experience those conclusions reached through logic alone — nor how often those conclusions prove to be wrong.

Re: Mushroom Veggie Burger Recipe (Vegan and Gluten-free)

Leisureguy — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 01:16:06 -0000

Nutritional yeast an excellent idea. I think a small pinch of MSG might also be helpful.

Re: Overnight Oats | NutritionFacts.org

Leisureguy — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 01:27:58 -0000

Seems like fresh berries are often not available. I imagine that instead of using 1/2 cup of fresh berries as a topping, you could include 1/2 cup frozen berries with the oats, water, and cinnamon.

Re: Workers with Criminal Records

Leisureguy — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:00:41 -0000

Relevant to this article: Rebecca Solnit's essay in the NY Times, "When Did We Stop Believing That People Can Change?" (gift link, no paywall).

Re: At White House, frustration over who gets to ask questions

Leisureguy — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:41:21 -0000

I'm struck by the implication that those in the Trump administration did not lie (and, for that matter, did not have media buddies that got lots of interviews — and there were more than Sean Hannity, though he's a good example).

Re: At White House, frustration over who gets to ask questions

Leisureguy — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 13:04:10 -0000

The solution is obvious. Number the seats, from 1 to N. If a press briefing has time for X questions, have a computer pick X + 10 random integers from the range 1 to N. The press secretary then uses the list to call out the numbers, one by one, in sequence. When a reporter's seat number is called, the reporter can ask a question or pass.

This is fair and easy. Perhaps the program could assign a lower weight to numbers already chosen — or eliminate from the range of choices — until all numbers have been called upon at least once. Then reset and begin again.

This would make it fair.

Re: Three Really Expensive Razors and Why You Might Want to Shave With Them

Leisureguy — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:52:20 -0000

No, the text "this list" in that post above (in the second sentence) still has the link. But I'll provide it again: click here.

Re: Creamy White Beans With 'Nduja, Kale, and Gremolata Breadcrumbs

Leisureguy — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:23:19 -0000

I had been working out a bean and lacinato kale recipe to make use of some 'njua I had just purchased to try (because suddenly I was reading about it everywhere). I had figured out something along these lines and was looking for more ideas when I found this, which was pretty much what I wanted. I had been thinking 1 can of beans, but I'll up that amount. I will also add 2-4 Roma tomatoes, chopped, and probably also 1/2-1 cup cooked intact whole grain — probably (unpolished) millet, since that's what I have on hand, but it might have been kamut or whole grain rye or hulled barley another time.

Re: Studies on Millet Nutrition: Is It a Healthy Grain?

Leisureguy — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:39:35 -0000

Very helpful. I don't hesitate to eat broccoli, soy, and flax, and was interested to see that those, too, are gastrgenic, and I certainly don't hesitate to eat those. (I do eat a couple of sheets of nori a day, so I will not worry about it.)

Re: Studies on Millet Nutrition: Is It a Healthy Grain?

Leisureguy — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:23:06 -0000

I just watched a video (https://youtu.be/iyNxvfE5vI8) that warned strongly against consuming millets because of harm done to the thyroid gland. He quotea study that showed as the proportion of millet in diet increased, so did the frequency of goiters. Dr. Greger doesn't touch on this in the video. I would be very interested to see a video that discusses the effects of millets on the thyroid.

Re: Three Really Expensive Razors and Why You Might Want to Shave With Them

Leisureguy — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:21:59 -0000

None of the razors I recommend pivot. I have a OneBlade. It's good, though in my experience not so good as those I recommend, and it's requires a much more expensive blade and does not work with a variety of blades.

Moreover, the razors I recommend are all double-edge razors, a format I greatly prefer to single-edge.