Chia seeds
are known for their abundance of Omega-3 fatty acids. These tiny seeds actually have more
beneficial fats than salmon. The gel
that is formed around the seed with the help of water has no calories and makes
you feel more full. These seeds contain
an abundance of antioxidants, as well as complete protein, a rarity in plant
sources. They balance your blood sugar
and give you steady energy that lasts for hours. Chia seeds are also a great source of fiber;
they have both soluble and insoluble fibers.
Chia seeds are amazingly sturdy and rarely get rancid, even if kept at
room temperature for months at a time.
Still, it doesn’t hurt to keep them in a tightly lidded container or jar
in the refrigerator. Flaxseeds contains lignans, which are
chemical compounds that carry antioxidants and enzymes that have many
benefits. Flax is also a good source of
a type of soluble fiber that helps maintain ideal cholesterol levels. It provides Omega-6 fatty acids and many
essential minerals. Ground flaxseeds can
be added to oatmeal, baked goods, smoothies, cereal, and more. Until recently, it has been necessary to buy
whole flaxseeds and grind them in a spice or coffee grinder to get their full
benefits. Now, pre-ground flaxseeds are
available, making them handy to use without extra preparations. Both flaxseeds and flax oil are highly perishable,
so keep them refrigerated. Another way
to reap flaxseeds’ fatty acid benefits is by using the oil in salads or
dressings (direct exposure to heat damages the nutrients). Keep your ground flax in the freezer so it
keeps longer and retain nutrients. If
you have whole flax, just keep in a sealable bag or mason jar in the
refrigerator, as they are highly perishable.
Hemp seeds are packed with
easily digestible proteins and contain all 10 essential amino acids, putting
them among the rare plant-based foods that provide complete protein. These seeds are abundant in omega-3 fatty
acids, as well as a specific omega-6 fatty acid (GLA) not found in any other
food; hemp oil contains even more GLA.
Hemp seeds are high in fiber and are rich in minerals including
magnesium, iron, zinc, and potassium. Unlike flaxseeds, you need not
grind them to reap their benefits. While
chia and flaxseeds have the edge in terms of soluble fiber, hemp is higher than
the other two seeds in protein. posted
by Jordan St. Clair-Jackson http://www.vegkitchen.com/nutrition/health-benefits-of-chia-flax-and-hemp-seeds/
Steve Inskeep and biographer Jon
Meacham discuss the American presidency, the rise of populism and Americans' sense of a shared
history for the last conversation in our series, History of Our Time. (portions of an interview heard on July 4,
2017 on Morning Edition) I think we are as divided as we have been since the
1850s. And we know how well that turned
out. Jon
Meacham is a wide-ranging thinker and historian, former editor of
Newsweek. His books range from an
exploration of religion to the life of Thomas Jefferson to a Pulitzer
Prize-winning biography of Andrew Jackson.
Granting that history is an argument over what really happened
and what really mattered, is it becoming more of one? Do we no longer have a common history that we
can agree on, more or less? And we are
tribal. We live in silos. We want to have our biases confirmed. There's much too little mixing, not only
between ethnic groups and races but between those of different classes,
economic levels. My favorite definition
of a nation comes from St. Augustine who said, a nation is a multitude of
rational beings united by the common objects of their love. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/04/535470981/whats-it-like-to-be-a-historian-at-this-political-time-every-day-is-christmas
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read
only one page.” attributed to St. Augustine.
Wikiquote takes
care of this one handily: Attributed to
Augustine in “Select Proverbs of All Nations” (1824) by “Thomas Fielding” (John
Wade), p. 216, and later in the form “The World is a book, and those who do not
travel read only a page”, as quoted in 20,000 Quips & Quotes (1995) by Evan
Esar, p. 822; this has not been located in Augustine’s writings, and may be a
variant translation of an expression found in Le Cosmopolite (1753) by Fougeret
de Monbron: “The universe is a sort of
book, whose first page one has read when one has seen only one’s own country.” https://fauxtations.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/augustine-the-world-is-a-book/
Peter Mayer,
a number one mainstream and impartial writer of the previous half century who
acquired such million-selling books as “Up the Down Staircase” and “Jonathan
Livingston Seagull” died May 11, 2018 at age 82. Mayer was a London native and Columbia
College graduate who broke into e book publishing within the early 1960s. At Avon Books he demonstrated a knack for
locating sudden best-sellers, particularly throughout an period when totally
different firms typically launched a e book’s hardcover and paperback editions. Mayer had pushed a taxi for a number of years
and was advised by one other driver a few coming-of-age novel written within
the 1930s and lengthy forgotten: Henry
Roth’s “Name it Sleep.” Mayer discovered
a replica on the New York Public Library, tracked down the proprietor of the e
book’s copyright and, for $2,500, bought paperback rights for a novel that went
on to promote greater than one million copies and was praised as a literary
basic. After “Name it Sleep,” Mayer had
comparable success with “Up the Down Staircase,” Bel Kaufman’s beloved novel
about an idealistic college trainer; Thomas A. Harris’ pop psychology favourite
“I am OK—You are OK” and Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” He was an early fan of John Irving and, at
Pocket Books, which he joined in 1976, Mayer acquired the paperback for
Irving’s breakthrough “The World In keeping with Garp.”
As a war-torn Europe was rebuilding itself in the 1950s, the European
Broadcasting Union (EBU)—based in Switzerland—set up an ad hoc
committee to search for ways of bringing together the countries of the EBU
around a "light entertainment programme". The name
"Eurovision" was first used in relation to the EBU's network by
British journalist George Campey in the London Evening Standard in 1951. The first contest was held in the town
of Lugano, Switzerland, on 24 May 1956. Seven countries participated—each submitting
two songs, for a total of 14. This was
the only contest in which more than one song per country was performed: since 1957, all contests have allowed one
entry per country. The 1956 contest was
won by the host nation, Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest
May 13, 2018 Israel erupted this weekend into a state of
national exhilaration--expressed with
chicken-inspired dance move--following Netta Barzilai’s win at the Eurovision song contest. Fans poured into the streets of Tel Aviv in
the early hours of Sunday after the 25-year-old was announced a champion in
Lisbon for her techno dance tune Toy, a pop anthem filled with clucks and
synthesised beats. Exuberant crowds
blocked traffic and many jumped into the public fountain at Rabin Square in
front of city hall to rejoice in the win for the national sensation who had
previously sung with the Israeli navy band.
Israel’s victory means it will host next year’s finals, expected to take
place in Jerusalem. Public figures
across the country rushed to express their glee. Gal Gadot, an Israeli actor
who played Wonder Woman, said Netta represented “the real wonder
in women”. Oliver Holmes Read more and see pictures at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/13/israel-celebrates-after-netta-barzilai-eurovision-win
2,592 ALL NATURAL COLORS
To celebrate the opening of Saturated:
The Allure and Science of Color at Cooper Hewitt (May 11, 2018-January 13, 2019),
Object of the Day this month will feature colorful objects from the
exhibition. Before Pantone, there was the Wiener Farbenkabinet (Viennese Color
Collection or Complete Book of Samples of all Natural, Basic, and Combined
Colors). This manual is one of only four
known copies in the United States; detailing the various formulaic compositions
of naturally made color shades for schwartz (black), wieß (white), rot (red),
gelb (yellow), blau (blue), braun (brown), and grün (green) to name a few. This manual contains 2,592 hand-colored
natural dye specimens, along with details on how to apply them to silk, cotton,
wool, leather, wood, bone, paper, and many other materials. Published in 1794 by Johann Ferdinand Ritter
von Schönfeld and before the discovery of synthetic dyes in 1856, this manual
reveals an extraordinary and vibrant system of calibrated, named and numbered
colors organized prismatically. This
multi-volume guidebook is a valuable resource for conservators and anyone interested
in color materials, techniques and applications. Schönfeld’s publication is featured in
the Creating Colors section
of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s exhibition Saturated: The
Allure and Science of Color.
Divided into several thematic categories, this section is devoted to how
objects are colored, featuring various examples of naturally and synthetically
dyed objects. Printed in the German
Blackletter typeface Fraktur that dates to the early 16th century, it is not
machine-readable and requires manual transcription in order to provide full
text searching. Using the power of crowdsourcing through Smithsonian Digital
Volunteers: Transcription Center, Wiener Farbenkabinet has been
transcribed by over 600 contributors and is near completion as of this post. The Smithsonian Transcription Center seeks to
engage the public in making collections more accessible by working hand-in-hand
with digital volunteers to transcribe historic documents and collection records
to facilitate research from archives all around the world. A fully digitized version of the Weiner Farbenkabinet can be
found here in
Smithsonian Libraries online catalog, SIRIS.
posted by Sylvia Ferguson https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/05/02/2592-all-natural-colors/ The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
is located at 2 East 91st Street in Manhattan.
Saturated explores the elusive, complex phenomenon of color perception and how it
has captivated artists, designers, scientists, and sages. Featuring over 190 objects spanning antiquity
to the present from the extraordinary collections of Smithsonian Libraries and
Cooper Hewitt, the exhibition reveals how designers apply the theories of the
world’s greatest color thinkers to bring order and excitement to the visual
world. More than three dozen magnificent
and rare books from the Smithsonian Libraries are installed throughout the
exhibition, emphasizing the ongoing theoretical and practical discourse
on color. Illustrated with spheres,
cones, grids, wheels, and other graphic means for organizing color’s hues and
harmonies, the works include texts written by designers, naturalists, and
chemists, as well as some of the most important color treatises of the
Enlightenment, such as Sir Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks and
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1810 Theory of Colors. Also
on view, a very rare surviving volume of Jacob Christophe Le Blon’s
1725 Coloritto, the first book to document the mixing of
primary colors to create secondary colors that became the foundation of modern
color printing. posted by Alix Finkelstein https://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibition/saturated-the-allure-and-science-of-color/ Thank you, Muse reader!
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