Archive for March, 2010

Food Marketing

Excellent talk by Michael Pollan about food, how food is marketed to us, and how we can make real choices about food and nutrition. The food industry spends $32 billion dollars a year marketing food to us.

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The Invisible Woman?

I got an email with a link to this video. The person said “a beautiful reminder”. I’m really troubled by this video. Her Correlation Nicole Johnson is clearly a very good speaker.  She’s got great charisma and stage presence.  And, that’s the problem in this particular video. I don’t know about her other speeches, but [...]

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Why People Are Stretched So Thin

Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law Professor, speaks at UC Berkely in mid-2007 (pre-crash) about the landscape of the American middle class. I watched this in 2008, and this video along with other books and documentaries solidified for me why people are stressed out, have no time, unwilling to serve, etc. It completely frames the way I [...]

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Rome Vacation: Rick Steves’ Tour

We completed a photo scrapbook of our Rome trip for Rick Steves’ scrapbook contest.  It was interesting and fun putting the scrapbook together.  I think it’ll be neat to create one for every vacation. Here a sampling of our photos:

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