Food, obits, and longform journalism comprise the articles we've been reading at the Magazines and Newspapers Center this April. So, just a normal month round these parts. Leave a comment to let us know what you think, especially if you ever listened to the Huberman Lab podcast.
We Need to Talk About Trader Joe’s
Taste, April 1, 2024
We found this article really disturbing but fascinating. We love TJ's but this is shady business!
Taste is an online magazine devoted to cooking and you shouldn't encounter a paywall when clicking through to this free article.
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Kate Coleman, Who Documented the Bay Area Counterculture, Dies at 81 [web version]
New York Times, April 6, 2024
Published before Cal students started an encampment at Sproul Plaza to protest UC's investment in Israel this month, this obituary of Kate Coleman does well in laying the historical groundwork that sets up today's student activists for success. As the obituary points out, Ms. Coleman was among hundreds of students arrested in 1964 for occupying Sproul Hall. Later, after she graduated and spent three years in New York working for Newsweek, she returned to the Bay Area and wrote for local publications the Berkeley Barb and Ramparts. If you want to revisit Ms. Coleman's work in these publications, the Magazines and Newspapers Center has you covered. We have the Berkeley Barb available on microfilm from 1965-1980 in the Underground Newspaper Microfilm Collection and we have Ramparts in print and on microfilm from 1962-1975.
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Consumer Reports Asks USDA to Remove Lunchables From School's Lunch Menus
KQED, April 10, 2024
If you heard we've got some Consumer Reports buffs around the Magazines and Newspapers Center, it'll be no surprise we closely follow the nonprofit watchdog's moves. On April 9, CR published a press release outlining the lead and cadmium contamination they found after testing the Kraft Heinz product Lunchables. KQED, reporting on the story the following day, included statements from other parties involved, like the USDA and Kraft Heinz. Knowing all this, would you dare eat a Lunchable nowadays?
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Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control
New York, Mar 25-Apr 7, 2024
New York magazine's cover story from the beginning of the month is a blockbuster of investigative and longform journalism. Building suspense by cultivating a healthy amount of skepticism about Dr. Huberman, a podcast celebrity and Stanford professor, the piece ends in a grand explosion of former lovers and girlfriends speaking out against Huberman. All of the women had become friends after uncovering Huberman's cheating ways and agreed to go on record due to the presumable trust author Kerry Howley instilled in them. In the comments to the article published in the April 8-21, 2024 issue of New York, some readers point out that his personal choices in regard to his sexual partners have no bearing on his acumen as a scientist. However, it is hard to trust a "dopamine regulatory specialist" that clearly has trouble regulating his own dopamine addiction in regard to sex. What do you think?
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