February 2012
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May 2011
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News: →
Does being a foodie just mean that you give a shit?
This name-calling is a form of misdirection, an attempt to evade a serious debate about U.S. agricultural policies. And it gets the elitism charge precisely backward. America’s current system of food production — overly centralized and industrialized, overly controlled by a handful of companies, overly reliant on monocultures, pesticides,...
April 2011
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Advice for new vegetarians and vegans
This thread on the Vegan.com Facebook page has some good advice for people switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet. Here are some of my favourite bits.
Join the online Twitter community of vegans, and look to popular vegan blogs for information.
Experiment with lots of new foods.
Don’t get overwhelmed by all the minutiae, just try your best when it comes to being ethical.
People will...
March 2011
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Handing Down Hand Me Downs Goes High Tech →
This is pretty great: an online clothing exchange for kids’ clothes called thredUP.
There are massive inefficiencies within the second-hand kids clothing market. Millions of parents simply give away hardly worn clothing, and buy new stuff every five months. It’s expensive, wasteful, and time consuming. Why is this the norm? Because no great solution exists to swap outgrown...
February 2011
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January 2011
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Cat Earns Multiple Advanced Degrees →
Zoe D. Katze, Ph.D., C.Ht., DAPA, is a fully credentialed psychotherapist. Her owner, Dr. Steve K. D. Eichel — who has a real Ph.D. — was tired of finding fakes passing themselves as psychotherapists thanks to diploma mills. So he decided to get his cat credentialed.
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November 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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Do Dark Cats Cause More Allergies? →
But are all cats created equal where allergies are concerned? In 2000, a small study found that cats with dark-colored fur were more likely to set off an allergic reaction. But the conclusion isn’t as clear as black and white. A later study found no effect of fur color on allergies but that hasn’t ended the questioning. Scientists at Allergy and Asthma Care of New York are now...
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Drugged tiger cub found stashed in suitcase at... →
Authorities at Bangkok’s international airport found a baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase of a woman flying from Thailand to Iran, an official and a wildlife protection group said Friday.
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Confused kitten →
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June 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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New Goal
Post a photo a day on here.
October 2009
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