Real Soylent (as in Sustenance)

Click to enlarge: A portion of the poster from the 1972 movie Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson. It was Robinson's last film. You may remember that Robinson played Dathan opposite Heston's Moses in Cecil B DeMille's 1956 version of The Ten Commandments. What a career.

I wrote over here about the niche an uncomplicated and nutritious food could fill, and today I heard an interview on NPR with the inventor of "Soylent," which is precisely that.

Yes, that's right, Soylent, as in Green, except it's not green and not made from people. Rob Reinhart, the creator, is an engineer, not a nutritionist.

Unfortunately, Reinhart's Soylent is a liquid and expensive, but he's on the right track. If you could, say, bake it into brownies, you'd have my full attention.

 

 

Rob Reinhart Talks about Soylent:

[2103-05-31]

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Facebook logo with the thumb pointing down.

Civility is a choice.

One thing enormous social sites like Facebook offer is a daily encounter with some of the least pleasant aspects of ourselves that we otherwise manage to subdue.

For every kind word there are thousands of ignorant, thoughtless and mean-spirited ones.

Twenty children are killed by a psychopath and pleas for gun control are received with laughter and spite.

Someone like the Pope - a generally good guy - starts tweeting and suddenly the Twittersphere if filled with anti-Catholic rancor.

Sites like Facebook are an opportunity to practice patience with sometimes demeaning and hateful people we will never meet. But we more often treat it like a safety valve and indulge our appetite for interpersonal destruction.

I'm no different than anyone else. I'd like to tell some people some times where to get off.

Civility is a choice.

[2012-12-16 <- note date]
 

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