Appear­ing at the TED Con­fer­ence, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman sums up “what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too lit­tle home cook­ing), and why it’s putting the entire plan­et at risk.” As you may notice, some of Bittman’s com­ments echo the think­ing in Michael Pol­lan’s recent work. (The clip has been added to our YouTube playlist.)

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Per­haps this is a lit­tle off top­ic, I know. But it’s fair­ly wild. And it’s the start of sum­mer.

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via Matthew Ygle­sias

Since we high­light­ed a free audio book of George Orwell’s 1984 ear­li­er in the week, it seemed worth post­ing this bit from Boing­Bo­ing TV — a nice pup­pet decon­struc­tion of Orwell’s clas­sic. What a way to start the week­end.

Just when you’ve thought that you’ve seen it all … Fake or real? I am guess­ing it’s the lat­ter.

(PS This has noth­ing to do with things cul­tur­al.)

via The Dai­ly Dish

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