Jamie Edwards

“Raisinable, which”
― Jancis Robinson, The 24-Hour Wine Expert

“As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Isak Dinesen went so far as to say, “There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.”
― Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France

“This act of self-control was known to cause ego depletion. All the volunteers drank some lemonade before participating in a second task. The lemonade was sweetened with glucose for half of them and with Splenda for the others. Then all participants were given a task in which they needed to overcome an intuitive response to get the correct answer. Intuitive errors are normally much more frequent among ego-depleted people, and the drinkers of Splenda showed the expected depletion effect. On the other hand, the glucose drinkers were not depleted. Restoring the level of available sugar in the brain had prevented the deterioration of performance. It will take some time and much further research to establish whether the tasks that cause glucose-depletion also cause the momentary arousal that is reflected in increases of pupil size and heart rate.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow