Daily Dose: Archive

May 28th

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Match Point: Sugar →

metromag: urbanfoodie: bringtoaboil: The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow gained much more weight than male rats that received water sweetened with table sugar, or sucrose, in conjunction with the standard diet. The concentration of sugar in the sucrose solution was the same as is found in some...

Mar 29th

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Mar 28th

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“A second promo shows {Jamie] Oliver facing stiff resistance from a squad of...”

– Reason.com explains how Jamie Oliver got to be on ABC through his TV shows, magazines, and Ministry of Food campaigns in England. Now, I’m not going to say that Huntington, WV should fall in love with Mr. Oliver, but they (and the rest of the country) should be taking what he has to say to heart....

Mar 28th

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Mar 26th

“But then, at this point in Pawlenty’s all-but-declared presidential campaign, he...”

– Tim “The Chairman” Gihring has some words for Tim “the panderer who clocked in 4th at CPAC” Pawlenty on arts funding, one of the many areas of our state f’d by the Governor’s ideologically driven mismanagement of the state. [fr iteeth] (via mediation)

Mar 25th

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“The increase in food stamp use among this demographic is hard to measure, as...”

– Jennifer Blyer, “Hipsters on Food Stamps” in Salon (via mediation)

Mar 16th

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Mar 12th

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Mar 11th

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Mar 11th

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Mar 11th

Homebrew bill passes MN House (via bring.mn) →

Pretty sweet for guys like @FultonBeer who started in their SW Minneapolis garage. I’m guessing this will mean more test batches, micro batches and other cool stuff.

Mar 9th

The Daily What →

And to think I used to hate ironing…

Mar 8th

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Mar 4th

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Mar 4th

Mar 2nd

Banksy Interview + Video →

brain-food: Banksy has done an interview with the Sunday Times, which is an interesting read: “I have a large collection of famous art at home, but they’re all fakes. I make them myself. If I like a picture I grab a photo, project it up and paint it. Sometimes I change the colours to fit with the curtains. I do it partly because I’m tight and partly because if the Basquiats and Picassos in the...

Mar 1st

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