Alternet--Who's Really Behind Organic Food Brands Like Amy's and Odwalla?
24 days ago
"Over the past decade many small organic food brands have been snapped up by giant corporations. Clearly, this can be bad for standards and quality." (2009)
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24 days ago
Financial Times--What’s the big idea?
29 days ago
"Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels?"
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29 days ago
BBC News--A Point of View: In defence of obscure words
5 weeks ago
"We chase 'fast culture' at our peril - unusual words and difficult art are good for us, says Will Self."
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5 weeks ago
ProPublica--And You Thought It Was Just ‘Pink’ Slime
6 weeks ago
"'Lean finely textured beef,' aka 'pink slime,' sparked an uproar when the USDA bought 7 million pounds of the stuff for school lunches. The agency maintains it's safe and healthy; critics say it's not fit to eat. But the burger filler isn't new, nor is it the only way that meat packers maximize production. Here's how it stacks up against two other mechanical processes."
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6 weeks ago
zenhabits--How to Go From Fear to Freedom, One Step at a Time
7 weeks ago
"What others think of you is none of your business."
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7 weeks ago
YouTube--Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy
8 weeks ago
Oh, good. Thank you, Dr. I hope we wake up.
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8 weeks ago
5min.com--Pan Fry Turkey Burgers and Finish the Dish Video
11 weeks ago
2 tsps olive oil
Sear 3-5 min/side
Bake 350 deg @15-20 min
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Sear 3-5 min/side
Bake 350 deg @15-20 min
11 weeks ago
GQ--Should You Get a Vasectomy?
12 weeks ago
A personal tale.
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12 weeks ago
Wordgems--Economics: Free To Choose
february 2012
"Free To Choose® began as an award winning PBS television series featuring Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. Free To Choose was also a book written by Milton and Rose Friedman and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. It was the best selling non-fiction book of 1980."
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february 2012
FreeDocumentaries.org--China's Olympic Lie
february 2012
"When it won the Olympic bid, China promised to improve its human rights record. Instead, as this week's Unreported World reveals, things have got worse. In a world exclusive, Reporter Aidan Hartley and Producer Andrew Carter film inside one of Beijing's 'black jails' - which the authorities deny exist - and with ordinary people suffering the consequences of fighting eviction to make way for Olympic infrastructure."
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february 2012
CultureCartel--The Thief and the Cobbler: How the Best Was Lost, 1968-1995
january 2012
"A case study of the abortion of an animated masterpiece."
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january 2012
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