Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Tuesday roundup

Crop diversity is a better solution for nutrition than enriching foods.

Stuck icebreakers don't debunk climate change, ffs.


This smart column treats veterans like the fully-functioning adults they are and not a special category in need of kid gloves... and also has good job-hunting tips for everyone.

I was hoping this column would capture my thoughts on the umbrage-and-apology cycle; it doesn't, but it makes some reasonable points. And links to a better column on the unjust systems we can't help but support now. And, holy $hit, Glenn Beck said something truly awesome.

Tom Philpott is still skeptical in spite of the weekend GMO buzz, and the food industry is looking for GMO labeling on its own terms.

Smugglers send cocaine to a German supermarket by accident.

Watch out for solar flares.

Prof. Strassler explains heat and cold and our perceptions of temperature. As for me,  I ended up one of the shruggers today (granted, I really bundled up--so as to get through the morning--to the point that the afternoon felt positively balmy). Luckily my pipes made it; we met with someone today whose pipes froze. 


Smug couples are just insecure about their own lifestyles.


A not-bad Shouts and Murmurs about dialectic differences and a better one about toddlers and silly lists.

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