- Lyme disease reduction comes when you root out invasive Barberry? Apparently. At least on some lands eliminating invasive Japanese Barberry results in an 80 percent reduction in ticks and the Lyme disease that they can carry.
- National Geographic has a terrific new Tumblr blog that you should put in you RSS feed. Great old pictures in large format. Everything to love, love, love.
- If your RSS feeder has been Google Reader, you probably know that is going away very soon. So what to replace it with? I am using Feedly, and I have to say I wish I had found it sooner. A marked improvement, and they make it ridiculously easy to pull all your Google Reader links into the new system. Check it out!
- Best and truest Onion article ever: Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life.
- Is elimination of tapeworms around the corner? Maybe. Turns out they have an Achilles' heel, Read all about it.
- Sometimes the dachshund gets the cat, sometimes the cat gets the dachshund. It's the circle of life (cue "Lion King" music).
- Social Farting may be one of the best PSA's of all time, because it nails a persistent demographic and hits it with a toxic dart.
- Bill Gates thinks meatless meat meals are right around the corner and that they will not only be healthier and cheaper, but better environmentally and -- most important of all -- they will actually taste and look just like meat. Gates’ self-published multimedia, slide-show piece, “The Future of Food,” is very well done and convincing in a technologist-meets-futurist-philanthropist kind of way.
- Cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil may have an extra benefit: it appears to be more filling than other fats and blocks sugar absorption, therefore adding fewer calories over time. Use more olive oil -- and read my friend Tom Mueller's book on the subject -- excellent!
- Make calorie data meaningful. How far do you have to walk to burn off those calories? Put that kid of information on the side of a food package and things might change quickly.
- Apple Computer says it now uses 100% renewable energy for its data centers and 75% for its needs overall -- up from 35% in 2010.
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