This is via Mother Jones by way of Amber Waves. This is Chart 1. It compares at-home spending patterns of U.S. households (i.e., at the supermarket) with USDA recommendations: Now, here’s Chart 2. It looks where Americans are eating — fast food, restaurants, at… Continue Reading
At half-time of the NFC Championship Game last night, it certainly seemed like the 49ers were hanging in there and the second half was going to be a thriller (it was). It had even looked, at various points during the… Continue Reading
Interesting moment in U.S. history today: it’s been five years since Obama was inaugurated, and in three years (from today), someone else will be. Chris Christie looks bad at this moment, and Hilary Clinton looks OK — she just got… Continue Reading
Eli Pariser, who’s currently the chief executive of Upworthy, wrote a book in 2011 called The Filter Bubble. A nine-minute TED Talk on many of the same topics is embedded above, but essentially, the idea is that personalized search — i.e. the… Continue Reading
Martin Luther King Jr. was responsible for a heck of a lot of good in this world. Here’s a timeline of his accomplishments, here’s another one, here’s his Wiki, and here are two takes on his importance. If you took… Continue Reading
A couple of different and interesting trend lines are converging in the NBA right now. First off, we’re pretty close to Adam Silver as the Commish, which is notable for two reasons: (1) CEO successions usually suck in the modern… Continue Reading
Whiskey and whisky are confusing worlds. To clarify: you can only really call something ‘scotch’ if it was made in Scotland, and that’s often called ‘whisky’ to distinguish from ‘whiskey,’ which can be made anywhere. Other Scottish rules for Scotch:… Continue Reading
Tremendous headline over on CIO right now: C-Level Execs Value Data, Have No Idea What To Do With It. This could be an earlier leader on the nerd/wonk front for best headline of the year, because it is unflinchingly and utterly true. You… Continue Reading