Infographic cheat sheets for seeing what veggies and fruits are in season
These are cool, but you know what else works? Going to the farmer’s market and buying whatever is for sale. It was grown near you in the season you’re living in, and it’s obviously fresher than something trucked in from afar.
Infographic cheat sheets for seeing what veggies and fruits are in season
These are cool, but you know what else works? Going to the farmer’s market and buying whatever is for sale. It was grown near you in the season you’re living in, and it’s obviously fresher than something trucked in from afar.
so I explained that Nicholas Cage prank someone pulled on april fools to my roommate. Because he’s rather industrious and works at a place where he has free access to a printer that prints on anything, we now have several solid PVC Nick cutouts
the plan WAS to slowly start placing them in random spots around the house when we have a big get together in a few weeks, but since that’s a ways off yet we’ve already taken to war
(Source: daisura, via calibornery)
(via Being a Geek on Facebook)
“For the first time in history, a private space craft was captured by the International Space Station.” USA Today Click-through for live view.
(Source: wethesciencey, via itsfullofstars)
parislemon: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
A lot of people have asked for my take on The New York Times piece yesterday about the true cost of making Apple products in China. Let me first just say that it’s an important piece full of good reporting by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. Parts of it are very sad — sickening, really.
But…
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
A Punishing System
Articles in this series are examining challenges posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries.
This American Life retracts Mike Daily episode regarding Apple + Foxconn, said it was “partially fabricated”
What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic - not a theatrical - enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret. I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China.
