Christine Folch

Tag: Yerba Mate

  • The Social Life of Stimulants

    The Social Life of Stimulants

    CulAnth290 Fall 2019 Register here. Be honest. The first time you tried coffee, did you like it? Why do you drink it now? How did bitter drinks come to be so popular? And what can we learn about society from the bitter things we consume? This course looks at legal stimulants and other “drug foods”…

  • Geoengineering to Save Paraguay’s Forests, Past & Future

    Geoengineering to Save Paraguay’s Forests, Past & Future

    Geoengineering saved Paraguay’s Atlantic Forest in the 19th century. It can do it again in the 21st, in the face of massive soy-led deforestation. The example of Swiss naturalist Moises Bertoni shows the way.