Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
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No Snacks for You
Posted on August 7, 2014
As teachers get ready for the new school year, drawing up lesson plans, going to workshops and girding themselves for battle, they are probably noticing a wholesale change in the...
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40 Billion
Posted on September 20, 2013
8R89EW2H8234 Teach a man to fish. That’s the biblical admonition. The food stamp program doesn’t do much of that, and that’s probably why we need to rethink our whole social...
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Eat Dirt
Posted on June 22, 2012
There was a fascinating little article in the New York Times yesterday by Jeff Leach, a science and archaeology writer and founder of the Human Food Project (Dirtying Up Our...
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The 7 Billionth Person
Posted on November 1, 2011
According to the United Nations, the 7 billionth person came into the world the other day. I was wondering why it felt kind of crowded around here. The 1 billionth...
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The War on Bacon
Posted on August 4, 2011
An interesting story caught my eye in the New York Times today, about the rise of a radical right-wing group in, of all places, Sweden. Swedes are concerned that they...
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