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Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me reprise
I am proposing to create a second series for early 2027, but I’d like some feedback first, please. I’m thinking of calling this Don’t Eat Me again. Although…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 17: You'll miss this!
Notes & Sources: You. We live in a world of amazing histories, incredible things, incredible animals, insects and sea life and, let’s be honest, incredible…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 16: Homes and Villages
Notes & Sources Things will be cold, crude, smelly, scary, vexing and demoralising at first, but you can do this. You can do this because you’re a human and…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 15: Survival Skills
Notes & Sources Learn First Aid: try your local Red Cross, for example. Here's the NZ link https://www.redcross.org.nz/first-aid/our-courses Learn to forage: A…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 14: Moving On
Notes & Sources On the Sarakatsani shepherds; check out Patrick Leigh Fermor's brilliant pre-WWII travel books. They are well worth reading for an intimate…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 13: Survive
Notes & Sources A nod to my sponsors here – I don't have any. No links as this is mostly opinion – if you've been following along, you should know how I got…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 12: Fats are the problem
Notes We need fat to survive, which sounds counter-intuitive since we're so paranoid about it, and it's true we get too much in many of our typical Western…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 11: Calories Per Day
Notes & Sources How many calories does work burn? http://calorielab.com/burned/ How cooking led to bigger human brains…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 10: Kitchen Mixer
Sources & Notes Little House on The Prairie, what they really ate: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-they-eat-little-house-on-the-prairie Make…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 9: food for granted
Notes & Sources Daily steps: https://www.verywellfit.com/whats-typical-for-average-daily-steps-3435736 How much food do you need?…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 8: water
Notes and Sources International water use: http://www.learnz.org.nz/water172/bg-standard-f/water-use We're so used to our conveniences…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 7: Collapse
Notes and sources Healthy living and emergency management (New Zealand official advice)…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 6: Contagion, Zombies, obscenely rich & matter
Notes and sources Robo-future with no jobs: https://medium.com/swlh/what-does-a-future-with-no-jobs-look-like-71bda1004a71 Antimatter movements…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 5
Notes & Sources www.worldometers.info/world-population/ Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 4
Notes and Information Our moon: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html NASA on Climate Change https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 3
Notes and sources The Great War and mortality impacts: Dmitri Jdanov, Evgeny Andreev, Domantas Jasilionis and Vladimir M Shkolnikov of the Max Planck Institute…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 2
The spread of the Black Death, an epidemic of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was spread by disease-bearing fleas carried in turn by…
Don't Eat MeDon't Eat Me 1: Apocalypse
Notes and sources An apocalypse is a “very serious event resulting in great destruction and change” (according to the Cambridge Dictionary)…