Sweetness & Ruin

AI Makes You Stupid. Discuss.

On the Terror of Returning to the Classroom

Aug 26 • 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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July 2025

When the Insulin Runs Out

A foray into insurance-induced rage

Jul 22 • 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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April 2025

On Tyrants, Tariffs, Paul Revere, and Qi

Also sugar, because the story is always about sugar when you are writing a book about sugar

Apr 20 • 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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March 2025

When the Tobacco Companies Weaponized Sugar

Kool-Aid, Seth Rogen, and Vanishing Caloric Density

Mar 31 • 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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Molasses on the Mystic River

Routes of Egress Past and Present: on rum, molasses, March winds, eminent domain, alewives, and a walk along the Mystic on a cold day.

Mar 12 • 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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February 2025

Three Things to do Now

How to fight the flames even when they have blowtorches

Feb 25 • 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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An Invitation to Sweetness & Ruin

The book, some history, and cake

Feb 17 • 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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