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What is ‘An Ecology of Food?’ When we ask more simply ‘What is food?’ the most complete answer includes a complex network of relationships that function interdependently to create a meal. This complex network can be seen as an ecology. Food illustrates a multi-faceted process of production alongside distribution that requires the input of energy, economics, environment, agriculture, and technology in relationship with the social interaction found in medicine, education, commerce, and media.
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
Nora Bateson
Speak confidently as if you are right but listen carefully as if you are wrong.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
The other important similarity is that each game requires two complementary skill sets: the ability to evaluate potential partners and the ability to attract good partners. In sex, the partners we’re looking for are mates. In social status, we’re looking for friends and associates. And in politics, we’re looking for allies, people to team up with.
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
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