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Climate Change, One Pepper At a Time

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:42:49 -0400

Ethnobotonist Gary Paul Nabhan is following food resilience in the desert Southwest.

By Aaron Kagan

Gary Paul Nabhan wears many hats, but when we recently spoke in his hometown of Patagonia, Arizona, he had on a khaki ball cap emblazoned with a caricature of a horned toad.

An ethnobotanist by trade, Nabhan is an enthusiastic desert dweller and a research scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona, where he helps run the program Sabores Sin Fronteras, aka Flavors Without Borders, a multi-cultural alliance dedicated to preserving and promoting the foods and culture of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. He has written and co-written several books including a history of tequila and a guide to foraging for wild edibles such as “sand food” in the Sonoran desert. He also founded Renewing America’s Food Traditions, or RAFT, a group that champions endangered, place-based foods such as Meech’s Prolific quince and the eulachon, a fish with an oil content so high it can be dried and used as a candle.

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Museum Diary: The Museum of Broken Relationships

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:18:56 -0400

Museum Diary: The Museum of Broken Relationships:

jennifuchs:

15 September 2010

Travelling with a baby is always tiring, so with a very full conference schedule ahead of me I was going to have a restful first evening in Zagreb before #CECA2011 kicked off. Then I discovered that the much talked about Museum of Broken Relationships was open until 10:30pm!

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CAMBLR: Marketing Genius, Episode II: The Camblr Strikes Back

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:08:05 -0400

CAMBLR: Marketing Genius, Episode II: The Camblr Strikes Back:

Alright, pile of people that came by during my 15 minutes of Daring FireFame. If you’re still swinging by, thanks! This is the inevitable separate followup to my original post (because the Default Tumblr Layout is too narrow and that post was getting far too tall.)

First things first

Let’s you…

TEDx: Thursday TEDx Talks Playlist

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:07:50 -0400

TEDx: Thursday TEDx Talks Playlist:

tedx:

Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website daily.

Each Tuesday and Thursday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas…

RobQuig: From ONA: Vadim Lavrusik of Facebook

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:07:30 -0400

RobQuig: From ONA: Vadim Lavrusik of Facebook:

robquig:

When Vadim Lavrusik left Mashable and joined Facebook, social journalists who know him rejoiced. Suddenly, the biggest social network had a face and a real-life friend for the media. Lavrusik is very responsive to requests, questions and concerns from online journalists, especially in a very…

motherjones: domybooks: hilarious. thanks mark This. Is....

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:07:09 -0400

motherjones:

domybooks:

hilarious. thanks mark

This. Is. Hilarious.

(For the benefit of those who didn’t immediately laugh: 4’33”)

In Case Of Actual Death: 11 Things By Josh Allen That Everyone Should Read

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:06:50 -0400

In Case Of Actual Death: 11 Things By Josh Allen That Everyone Should Read:

No particular order. I couldn’t in good conscience get it down to a cool 10. To be fair, I could do a separate list just for Fireland, to help you know where to start.

Mix Tape for Dead Girl

The House of Wigs

The Alaina Rautio Interview

Knowledge for Thirst: Smartwater

Chokeville…

pewinternet: New report: 13% of online adults use Twitter 13%...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:06:22 -0400

pewinternet:

New report: 13% of online adults use Twitter

13% of online adults use the status update service Twitter, which represents a significant increase from the 8% of online adults who identified themselves as Twitter users in November 2010. 95% of Twitter users own a mobile phone, and half of these users access the service on their handheld device.

As in our previous research on Twitter use, African Americans and Latinos continue to have high rates of adoption of the service. Fully 25% of online African Americans use Twitter at least occasionally, with 11% doing so on a typical day.

Additionally, Twitter use by internet users ages 25-34 has doubled since late 2010 (from 9% to 19%) and usage by those ages 35-44 has also grown significantly (from 8% to 14%). Read more…

Indistinguishable From Magic: Top 10 Best Superhero/villain Redesigns

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:06:01 -0400

Indistinguishable From Magic: Top 10 Best Superhero/villain Redesigns:

dresdencodak:

In the world of superhero comics, artists and writers are (more often than not) dealt the task of handling characters that they had no hand in creating, characters that have often existed for decades. Being able to put a fresh spin on concepts that have been around for so long is no easy task, and…

staff: Tumblr Android 2.0: Now available on the Android...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:05:39 -0400

staff:

Tumblr Android 2.0: Now available on the Android Market

Android users, say hello to the new Tumblr app, rebuilt from the ground up! We hope you’ll enjoy the updated features, including:

New interface: A total redesign centered around Android’s hardware and software.

Manage multiple blogs: It’s now a simple swipe to access your different blogs and manage your drafts, queue and followers on-the-go.

Create a post: We’ve highlighted posting to Tumblr so you can share text, images, links, chats, quotes and videos whenever you want.

Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.

Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.

New users: Sign up right from the app.

Bonus: For quick sharing, you can post anything from your home screen via the Tumblr widget.

Go ahead and grab it on the Android Market!

"From 1996, when he left the pizza company, until 1999, Mr. Cain ran the National Restaurant..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:05:22 -0400

“From 1996, when he left the pizza company, until 1999, Mr. Cain ran the National Restaurant Association, a once-sleepy trade group that he transformed into a lobbying powerhouse. He allied himself closely with cigarette makers fighting restaurant smoking bans, spoke out against lowering blood-alcohol limits as a way to prevent drunken driving, fought an increase in the minimum wage and opposed a patients’ bill of rights — all in keeping with the interests of the industry he represented.”

- Sheryl Gay Stolberg (via politicalprof)

Uniform Motion: Release day economics

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:04:58 -0400

Uniform Motion: Release day economics:

uniformmotion:

Update with 2011 numbers available here.

Our new record was ‘officially’ released today. This means that you’ll find the digital version on various different Digital music stores like iTunes, AmazonMP3 and eMusic, and you’ll be able to stream the music from services such as Spotify