The Incredible Shrinking Man

Het Pareto-principe (de 80/20-regel) en Hara Hachi Bu (eten tot je 80% vol zit, en 20% lege ruimte laten) lijken op het eerste gezicht ongerelateerd.

According to a large-scale Mendelian randomization-phenome-wide association study* by the VA Million Veteran Program, height may be an independent risk factor for various common medical conditions.

Humanity’s relationship with individuals of shorter stature is deeply complex and frequently marked by systemic discrimination.

In 1961, Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead demonstrated that normal human somatic cells possess a finite proliferative lifespan, which is governed not by chronological time but by the cumulative number of cell divisions.

At The Incredible Shrinking Man we are interested in cars as a manifestation of the things we want and are unwilling to let go off.

Despite being mysteriously ignored and displaced by mainstream consumption theories, Duesenberry’s relative income hypothesis is highly relevant to contemporary societies where individuals are increasingly obsessing over growth.

Migikata agari is a Japanese phrase that means right shoulder rising.

During periods of low sea levels around 500,000 years ago, full-sized straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), which stood roughly 4 meters tall and weighed up to 10 tons, migrated to several Mediterranean islands.

The ideologies of economic and physical growth are inextricably linked with our food system.

At the center of The Incredible Shrinking man’s belief that we should and can become smaller is its most obvious component: the body.