Xander Balwit
@AlexandraBalwit
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Editor-in-chief at @AsimovPress. Well-fed vegan. Currently reading: Salt: A World History
Joined March 2022
Give me your GMO tomatoes, cultured meat, and science food any day of the week. Let's make it happen San Francisco.
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First, Bryan Caplan came for our cars (windshields bad), and now the mushrooms are marred by exploited hogs. Worried I won't have anything left to eat by the time we are done hashing stuff out in the vegan group chat.
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Issue 7 line up is absolutely killer - fermentation, medical myth-breaking, leeches, and human waste. What is not to love? . Also, join @AsimovPress on the 23rd in SF for our launch party trivia night!.
Issue 07 is coming on Monday. It features essays on aspirin's uncertain origins, how to scale proteomics, the first weight-loss drugs, and more. Also, we dropped new merch to celebrate and we're hosting a BIOLOGY TRIVIA NIGHT on July 23 in San Francisco. RSVP at the link below.
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This book slaps. I let out an audible cheer for camels today on my run for trans-Saharan salt schlepping. Good on them. Someone should pitch @AsimovPress on something salt-related. Think halophilic enzyme discovery or high-salinity crops.
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I am also an artist
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My ex-fiancé finally took me off his Spotify premium account after over a year. I didn't see this coming.
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Me at hot yoga. Sorry. Bimbo yoga.
losing just 2% of your body mass in water reduces your cognitive performance by 28% and your brain starts shrinking. 1/
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Scheming up a few follow-on dinners inspired, in part, by @ben_a_goldfarb and his fantastic work on how the built environment and 'wild' collide. While a road-kill reclamation dinner might be a stretch in SF, a meal based on invasive species is eminently doable.
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Also, huge thanks to @MissionBarns for supporting us. It was such a treat to collaborate with @drbiancale and hear about a future wherein bioreactors might become features of the landscape no different than urban playgrounds or water towers. We should fight like hell for it.
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My favorite dish of the night. GMO purple tomatoes from @BigPurpleTomato, spherilated "tomato" egg, algae bacon, and sauce with Nutrition from Water Marine Whey:
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Would vegans eat cultivated meat, though? . Depends on what has got their panties in a knot.
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RT @NikoMcCarty: @AlexandraBalwit opened a pro-GMO restaurant for one night, using a science fiction story as inspiration. We're planning….
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The photo essay accompanying my food-futurism dinner is live on @AsimovPress today. As in a behind-the-scenes chat with @NikoMcCarty where he presses me on cultured meat, the point of bringing sci-fi to life, and to what extent animal welfare will drive the food transition.
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If you have an appetite for simply superlative food anthropology, please allow me to shill this book once more:
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Another week thinking about what it will take to usher in the damn "food transition."
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Absolutely loved @catehall's essay on commitments today. I used to like to run on treadmills, joking that "It played into my fantasies of stopping and being exactly where I started," but now, when I run outside and find myself at Ocean Beach, I have no choice but to run back.
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