Korea was one people until 1945. Today the men of the South stand up to three inches taller than the men of the North.
Same ancestry, same language, the same height at the start. The border is 160 miles long and 2.5 miles wide.
In the North, food comes through the state ration. Rice when there is rice, maize when there is not, and meat on a few holidays a year. In 2012 the army cut its minimum height for a recruit to 4ft 8in, because too few 17 year olds could reach the old one.
In the South, meat consumption rose about tenfold in 50 years. Beef, pork, eggs and milk went from luxuries to every day.
South Korean women gained 8 inches in height over the 20th century. It is the largest increase recorded for any population on earth.
Children who escape from the North are visibly smaller than Southern children of the same age. Fed in the South, the young ones catch up. The older ones are too late.
Nobody designed the experiment. But it has 75 million subjects, a genetic control and a hard border, and it has run for 80 years.
One side of the wire was fed grain by a government, and the other side ate meat.
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“A society that mocks virtue prepares its own collapse.”
- Plato
When a society begins to ridicule virtue, it weakens the moral foundation that allows it to endure. In The Republic, Plato emphasized that justice, honesty, and self-discipline are more than admirable qualities—they are essential principles that create trust and hold communities together.
When integrity becomes something to mock rather than respect, cynicism can take its place and social trust begins to disappear. As corruption and self-interest grow, the common good becomes secondary, leaving a society increasingly divided and vulnerable to decline from within.
Glimpse of hyperspace. Regular "4-Polytopes" (4-D objects, like the tesseract or hypercube). 4-D analogues of Platonic solids.
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A Virginia farmer cut out the grocery store by selling beef straight to your neighborhood.
Joel Salatin raises cattle, pigs and chickens on pasture at Polyface Farm in Virginia.
Neighbors form buying clubs, order online, and split one farm delivery among the group.
Thousands of families now get their meat this way instead of off a supermarket shelf.
Find a rancher running a buying club near you on Localize.
Sources: DTN Progressive Farmer, The Beef Site
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"Through the medium of the press the public mind has been poisoned, so that none, however elevated, can express a just indignation against the perpetrators of a horrid crime, or against the institution, which justifies and protects the criminal, without the risk of being denounced as a fanatic, or a fool, or a designing man."