I remember in my twenties reading plays by Strindberg, a novel by Max Frisch, Rilke's poetry, listening all night to music by Bartók, watching a tv special on the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo and feeling in each case that my life had to change after these experiences, it couldn't help but be affected by these experiences and changed. There was ( Read more... )

The American agriculturalist George Washington Carver found ways to use sweet potatoes to make instant coffee, tapioca pudding, and three recipes for after dinner mints. He is also known for discovering 300 uses for the peanut, including paper, ink, soap, dyes, laxative, axle grease, explosives, five punch recipes, and the humble salted peanut, ( Read more... )