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Maureen Ogle

Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea Junkie.

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November 13, 2015

Outta the Past: Cantwell on Coffee and Competition

November 13, 2015/ Maureen Ogle

They're more territorial, for one thing, and with a hefty percentage of the world's urban street corners tenanted by a slavering green and white multinational competitor, you really can't blame them.

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A Historian At Work, Beer
November 13, 2015

10 Years On: Reading Notes: Geek Culture. Tech Culture. Male Culture.

November 13, 2015/ Maureen Ogle

So. Male culture. Geek culture. Tech. Silicon Valley. Demographics. Beer. Beer as thing. Physicallity and inclusiveness. Male culture. Beer. Geeks. Culture. Definitions. Culture shapes trajectory. Maybe. 

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November 13, 2015

In Which I Pretend To Be A Seer. Craft Beer, Etc.

November 13, 2015/ Maureen Ogle

Beats me. I can predict a plausible structural future. A cultural one, I cannot.  

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Beer
November 13, 2015

Update: This Is Too Easy. Something's Gotta Be Wrong

November 13, 2015/ Maureen Ogle

Honey, I could get used to this.

 

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October 26, 2015

My "Serious" "Professional" Take on This Meat-Causes-Cancer Thing

October 26, 2015/ Maureen Ogle

In my opinion, based on thirty years work as a historian engaged in "intellectual" labor, studies like this are trivia, something designed, or so it feels, to shame/worry/amuse/entertain the haves rather than a project aimed at helping humanity. 

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Food [for Thought]
October 26, 2015

WHO, Red Meat, and Cancer: The Mother of All Clickbait!

October 26, 2015/ Maureen Ogle

And --- we've been there before. I don't know about you, but I haven't paid attention to what science says about food since the egg scare back in the 1980s.

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Website of Maureen Ogle, author and historian. Books include Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer; In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America; and Key West: History of An Island of Dreams.

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