Potato riffs signups are still open! Join the fun now, or check again in 2024 — we’ll wait. 😉   Speaking of potatoes, Alistair Kitchen has written a piece about the potato diet and the long conversation we had last January, check it out! In particular we would like to thank him for doing a good […]

Previous Philosophical Transactions: Neoncube recently sent us some emails about a self-experiment where he ate mostly meat and veggies. The exchange is reproduced below, lightly edited for clarity. Neoncube’s First Email Dear Slime Mold Time Mold, I’ve followed your writings with great interest, and now I’m enthused to write to you about the rather astounding […]

When we finished the Potato Diet Community Trial, we found ourselves in a pickle. The diet worked — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over only four weeks — and we had basically no idea why. No idea what parts of the protocol were essential, and what parts were optional.  We had no idea what […]