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@legalnomads

Writer, Speaker, & Soup Eater. Bylines at , , & more. Former lawyer. Writing about travel & food while helping celiacs eat safely.

Montréal, Québec
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Joined September 2009
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    Aug 23

    A year ago today, a spinal tap changed my life. It felt like a good day to reflect on memories from a decade of travel. Also answered reader FAQs about next steps at the end. This was a tough but cathartic post to write, and I’m excited to share it!

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  2. 6 hours ago

    Astronaut Ricky Arnold, from aboard the International Space Station, shared this image of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 10, taken as the orbiting laboratory flew over the massive storm.

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  3. Sep 8

    The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo: on how black markets and American wheat imports popularized ramen.

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  4. Sep 7

    How NAFTA changed the way we eat in Canada:

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  5. Sep 7

    And now I'm off to hunt down 's new book because WANT MORE OF THAT WRITING. If you're with me, it's called Fruit of the Drunken Tree -->

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  6. Sep 7

    “Good divination is the art of a good story," said 's mother. “But the biggest thing I have learned in all these years ... is that nobody wants the truth, but everyone wants a story.” What a beautiful piece of writing.

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  7. Sep 5

    TL;DR, biohacking, and bougie all added to the dictionary for 2018. 22 other words added this year, at the link:

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  8. Sep 5

    "Contrary to popular belief, the cost of an ageing population in itself is not a threat to the welfare system – an unhealthy ageing population is." on why modern medicine is a major threat to public health

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  9. Sep 4

    Missed this when it came out - glad I clicked now. (As said, the thumbnail isn't representative of the piece. It's the least interesting pic in there!)

    Don't know why this 2016 article is currently the top trending article on but I'll grudgingly admit it's pretty interesting despite the clickbaity headline
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    Sep 4

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  11. Sep 4

    We decry Facebook's news power here, but its grip in the Philippines is staggering. It's leading provider of news & information, and as 's piece details, it egged on the wave of populist anger that carried Duterte all the way to the presidency:

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  12. Sep 3

    How to fall asleep in 120 seconds -

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  13. Sep 3

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    Devastating. The fire at the Museo Nacional de Brasil has resulted in the total loss of a collection of c.20 million items (for context, that’s more than twice the number in the British Museum) inc the oldest human skeleton in the Americas, and thousands of indigenous artefacts.
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  14. Sep 3

    Alternative careers for lawyers interview with , former attorney at , now Executive Director at NY's Museum of Food and Drink:

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  15. Sep 3

    How met and left his lucrative law job for something a lot more satisfying:

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  16. Sep 3

    Like many popular drugs before it, Viagra went from a medical mistake to a multi-billion dollar a year industry. The story of how two guys took on pharma, the church, and Wall Street, and got America hooked on a little blue pill:

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  17. Sep 3

    "Combined with urban runoff and decades of back-pumped water from nearby sugar fields, these chemicals concentrate in the lake, where they feed anything willing to grow, but especially blue-green algae."

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  18. Sep 2

    John McCain's Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet

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  19. Sep 2

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    Incredible photo via of traffic near Tan Son Nhat at the start of Vietnam's National Day holiday weekend.
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  20. Sep 1

    “McCain understood that some principles transcend politics” - , in his tribute to McCain. “John understood that if we get in the habit of bending the truth ... our democracy will not work”

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  21. Sep 1

    Not sure I understand the rationale for inviting Kissinger to speak, given his political machinations and McCain’s particular POW history....

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