A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs
Arnold Stephen "A. J." Jacobs, Jr.is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is the editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 March 1968
CountryUnited States of America
crazy chocolate doe
There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantage of that and eat a cricket. It was chocolate-covered, and I'm not sure that's the way they were served in Moses' time. But this was a rule that seemed crazy on the outside, then actually turned out to be pragmatic and compassionate.
vegetables preparation violence
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
dna history focus
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
procrastination voice today
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
moving technology tvs
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
jumping birth-control honey
I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
littles good-things
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
too-much plant paraphrase
The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
nice careers rejection
I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
religious believe cognitive-dissonance
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
jobs feel-good feels
Its sort of my job to feel good.
names causes littles
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
book moving recipes
Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
prayer nice believe
I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.