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Send us Fan Mail November 26, 2021 Ten Factors that make us who we are:  1, the economy (use of the government); 2, sex and the pill; 3, science (acquired a central focus); 4, war (more of it); 5, climate (burning up the planet); 6, organized religion. (deception); 7, cosmos ();  8, gender redefinition (the blurring of male-female);  9, race (importance in history);  10, trust (actually, loss of i...

Send us Fan Mail November 3, 2021 Oliver spent a lot of time with the Indian family.  He accompanied them up Mt San Jeronimo, where he participated in the rites of sun worship. Relationships between the Indios (Indians) and the Mestizos (Spanish-Mexicans).  Comparison to situation of the cocoa farmer. Communications between Indios and Mestizos.  Indios used superstition to gain the upper hand over...

Send us Fan Mail October 26, 2021 Characters:  Oliver--eventually became VP of a big oil company.  Jenny--my great-grandmother.  Rolf--invented the milk carton.  Esther--my mother's mother (got sick in Mexico and returned to the US).  Rueben-- invented an oil pipeline brush. Sympathetic magic--the belief that like makes like.  E.g., eating long green beans lengthens lifespan.  Eating red food...

Send us Fan Mail September 16, 2021 Bach's music is profoundly cheerful and full of love.  JSB was a devout Christian, and his music portrays the majesty of a Theistic God who loves his creation.  These five organ pieces are among my favorites. Prelude and Fugue in F-Major Prelude in D-Major  Wachet Auf Ruft uns die Stimme. (Wake Up Calls Out the Voice) Sheep May Safely Graze Trumpet Voluntar...

Send us Fan Mail October 16, 2021 Written by my Great-Uncle, Victor Frederick Peterson.  Comments about how I inherited this document.  Other personal comments. Emigration of Swedes to the US and Little Swedens that dotted the MidWest and about the Peterson family. 1905--Professor Peterson decides to move his family to Mexico. Three books about rubber and colonialism:  King Leopold's Ghost, F...

Send us Fan Mail July 1, 2021 African Truffle assortment using Depa chocolate Depa:  our first chocolate production facility.  David's customers. Description of truffle production Other products using Depa chocolate Description of vendors in the Cordes Saturday morning market Support the show Write to me at  t wneuhaus@gmail.com To learn more, visit  http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org

Send us Fan Mail May 15, 2021 A comparison of my parents' science interests and their hopes to make me a scientist.  A comparison of parental religious philosophies.  How can science and religion coexist in one person when science negates religion? Late 19th and early 20th centuries--when Cartesian thought no longer applied and mystery caused a significant rapprochement of science and religio...

Send us Fan Mail April 15, 2021 My commitment to "do something" about poverty of the cocoa farmer.  Purchase of tools for farmers.  2012 trip: I proposed the idea of building cocoa processing facility in Depa.  Since 2019, David Logbo Zigro has shipped four batches of chocolate bars to the US.  He has also made bars and disks which he has sold locally. Pezoan:  We built the second chocol...

Send us Fan Mail March 23, 2021. The Thomas Edison Model:  dispersed generators connected by AC Intermittency:  how to blend wind and solar with traditional generators Energy to weight ratio:   History of the battery. The Lithium battery:  where is most of the earth's lithium?  Environmental damage. How batteries are recycled. Two new batteries:  liquid air and liquid metal NEWS ABOUT PH&...

Send us Fan Mail March 6, 2021 Hopelessness:  a hopeless approach A bug shows the way;  a metaphor for our times. History of the global warming theory. Forcings:  measured in watts per square meter (incoming and outgoing) Examples of positive and negative forcing How many trees do we need to plant? Problems for shellfish. NEWS ABOUT PH&F Support the show Write to me at  t wneuhaus@gmail.com To...

Send us Fan Mail February 13, 2021 INTRODUCTION:  An old-testament writing genre that grew in response to the Babylonian captivity to provide hope to the Chosen People who had been kidnapped to Babylon, then invaded by the Greeks and then the Romans. FIVE HORSEMEN: Serial Pandemics:  COVID and Ebola Donald J. Trump:  end of Liberalism, rise of Fascism Nuclear Annihilation Devaluation of Humanity G...

Send us Fan Mail January 16, 2021 Dr. Bart Ehrman.  Why do we suffer?  The canonical gospels.  Who wrote them?  When?  Quelle (source).  Problems of translation such as "logos".  Meaning of Messiah.  Gospels as credos, not historical records.  No record of Jesus in documents written in the 1st century.  James, brother of Jesus, was the first "pope";  he was Jewish, not Christia...

Send us Fan Mail Dec 12, 2020 Three geological examples of impermanence are considered:  the clinkers I picked up as a Kindergartner, the Petoskey Stone, which is the state mineral of Michigan, and the Cambrian Explosion, when multicellular life first appeared. Our village Cordes sur Ciel represents a fourth example of impermanence.  We live on top of a 200 foot layer of limestone, dolomite, and s...

Send us Fan Mail Nov. 11, 2020. A friend (Ahmadou) put me in touch with the captain of the Cameroonian soccer team.  But it was a fraud.  My friend was deceived.  Becoming increasingly suspicious, I made a list of "flags" that signal the fraud.  I sent 200 euros and learned a valuable lesson.  The most valuable was that when you are trying to do good, you are highly susceptible to fraudu...

Send us Fan Mail More walking through Cordes.  Very sorry that the images are no longer with us.  Some important points: Albigensian Crusade:  a genocide of the Cathars ordered by Pope Innocent III Pastel:  made from a local plant (woad) that made Cordes rich Valleys and hills:  all formed by erosion of softer limestones Bastide:  a heavily defended market town  Planol:  between the 4th and 5th wa...

Send us Fan Mail October 12, 2020 I walk around Cordes.  Hope you enjoy it.  Tom Support the show Write to me at  t wneuhaus@gmail.com To learn more, visit  http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org

Send us Fan Mail September 23, 2020 Plant Pigments and the Cooking of Vegetables Differences between plants and animals Pheophytin and overcooked vegetables Effects of blanching Chlorophylls, carotenoids, xanthophylls Effects of pH on vegetable colors Flavonoids as anti-aging antioxidants A Little Tour of Cordes sur Ciel Support the show Write to me at  t wneuhaus@gmail.com To learn more, visit  h...

Send us Fan Mail September 1, 2020. Andrew Wilson-Dickson plays Bach and Couperin to illustrate: Pipe length and pitch and sharpness of sound—examples by Bach and Couperin Use of harmonics to imitate reed instruments Sound of reeds, wooden and metal pipes History, Ingredients, and a Culinary Story The story of Danish Cinnamon vs Cassia A Fishy Tail Support the show Write to me at  t wneuhaus@gmail...

Send us Fan Mail "Toccata" by Francis Jackson.  Performed by Andrew Wilson-Dickson. The Prelude and postlude in a Christian service Organ as vox dei or pious Three periods:  classic, romantic, instrumental The tracker organ, ranks, stops Quint, Terce,  Materials:  white pine, pewter, lead, tin Principals, bourdon, reed pipes (fagott), strings Manuals:  great, positif, swell, recit Length...

Send us Fan Mail Companies pretend to be shocked about child labo My solution—help the farmer climb the value chain WFCL—definition Use of agricultural chemicals—effectiveness Cocoa price at the time:  68 cents per lb Daloa produces 10% of Ivorian cocoa Gender and control of family’s cash Green pods, black pods and quality Pisteurs and traitants:  who are they? Shia Lebanese and Ivorian economy Ch...

Send us Fan Mail July 23, 2020 Dark Lutheranism and Light Lutheranism Is Dark Lutheranism caused by epigenetics? Swedish foods celebrating church festivals Coexistence of science and Christianity Correlation of Liberalism and Light Lutheranism PH&F’s work and Light Lutheranism Culinary Issues The microwave oven—effects on food Plastics in food—BPA Explosion in the kitchen Support the show Writ...

Send us Fan Mail July 12, 2020 History:  origins of the  mousse Ingredients:  the onion.  The FODMAP diet.  Lachrymatory properties. Fining and Honing Your Knives How to Cut an Onion "As Above, So Below". Philosophy of culinary science. An Earthly Apocalypse:  story of a failed cake Support the show Write to me at  t wneuhaus@gmail.com To learn more, visit  http://www.projecthopeandfairn...

Send us Fan Mail June 27, 2020 The Industrial Revolution is often said to be made of three parts:  the steam engine, the Bessemer blast furnace, and the silicon wafer.  However, underpinning these three technologies is a great wealth of modifications in the diet necessary to feed the worker.  The rise of sugar as a cheap source of calories, the use of food additives to preserve and make food more...

Send us Fan Mail June 18, 2020 David's New Machine:  David Logbo Zigro went to Abidjan to pick up the newest melangeur. The African Chocobar: description.  Comments about pricing. The Peruvian Connection:  the very beginning of PH&F Kuapa Kokoo:  Fair Trade cooperative located in Kumasi, Ghana 2003--first trip to Ghana Food Fact:  why are some fish oilier than another?  Why are some white...

Send us Fan Mail June 4, 2020 HISTORY OF GHANA:  importance of gold trade, slave trade;  Tetteh Quarshie, the man who introduced cacao to continental Africa.;  Kwame N'Kruma HISTORY OF CAMEROON:  origin of name, German influence, Western Cameroonians,  President Biya, Northern Cameroon and Boko Haram, formation of Amazonia, biggest exports, polarization of North vs South. WORST FORMS OF CHILD...