December 2010
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Results from a 40-year longitudinal study of women aged 18-64 suggest MBT shoes...
– Merlin Mann (via putthison)
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what i learned today: Did you know →
dihard:
the inspiration for Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ came from the last words of murderer Gary Gilmore before he was executed by firing squad in 1977. When asked if he had any last words he replied, “Let’s do it.” That phrase became a meme at the time, with references in movies, SNL, later on Seinfeld,…
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what i learned today: TED Talks for Foodies →
dihard:
Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities
Peter Reinhart on Bread
Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world
Barton Seaver: Sustainable seafood? Let’s get smart
Dan Barber’s foie gras parable
Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn
Ann Cooper talks…
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Seven tasty ways to stop wasting food - Francis... →
unconsumption:
“A new study in the American Chemical Society’s journal that found that Americans waste — just straight-up throw away — the equivalent of 350 million barrels of oil a year in the form of food. That’s about 70 times the amount of oil in the BP Gulf oil spill.
“Basically, we’re tossing more than a quarter of all the food we grow, package, ship, buy, cook, serve and store,...
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Pew: Twitter Used by 8 Percent of U.S. →
courtenaybird:
Pew Internet and American Life Project raised plenty of eyebrows in September with research showing that 24 percent of Americans use Twitter or similar status-updating services. After redoing the questioning to focus on Twitter itself, Pew found that 8 percent of the U.S. is tweeting.
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Six Social Media Trends for 2011 - Harvard... →
courtenaybird:
Social Functionality Makes Websites Fashionable Again. After several years of being told to “fish where the fish are,” businesses realize that users expect social integration to existing Websites. Sites such as AMEX Open forum serve as a model for how networks such as Twitter can integrate with the Web experience. Websites will increasingly serve as “digital hubs” that integrate...
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