Новости за 11.07.2016

Not for the squeamish. Interview with David George Gordon, science writer, about eating insects; with recipes. “There’s a little bit of a disagreement right now in the bug-eating community about how to introduce newcomers to the world of edible insects. Most of the people who are launching start-ups are using cricket powder in some capacity. There are tortilla chips called Chirps that have cricket flour in them, there are energy bars. People say crickets are the gateway bug”

Admiring review of J.D. Vance’s grim memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, about growing up poor in Appalachia. “Our homes are a chaotic mess. We scream and yell at each other like we’re spectators at a football game. At least one member of the family uses drugs. At especially stressful times, we’ll hit and punch each other, all in front of the rest of the family, including young children; much of the time, the neighbors hear what’s happening. A bad day is when the neighbors call the police to stop the drama”

It sounds like a gendered cliché to say Hillary Clinton is a listener rather than a talker, but it is also an essential truth for understanding how she can be contending for the White House without ever really enthusing the public. “The Democratic primary pitted an unusually pure male leadership style against an unusually pure female leadership style. Sanders is a great talker and a poor relationship builder. Clinton is a great relationship builder and a poor talker. In this case — the first time at the presidential level ... Читать дальше...

“Over recent weeks in New York dining rooms and Parisian salons, Guy Wildenstein has been a walking object lesson in how billionaire dynasties decline: surrounded by lawyers, pitied, selling off paintings — yet still fabulously rich. This is how it goes when you’re facing an inheritance-tax case that could cost your clan half a billion dollars. His brother, father, and stepmother are dead. It falls to Wildenstein, 70, to ensure the family’s fifth-generation art-dealing fortune makes it to the sixth”