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Food You Can Trust?

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As the new year begins, millions of people are vowing to shape up their eating habits. This usually involves dividing foods into moralistic categories: good/bad, healthy/unhealthy, nutritious/indulgent, slimming/fattening — but which foods belong where depends on whom you ask. Welcome to the world of spurious correlations.

Source: You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition | fivethirtyeight

The Fallen of World War II

An amazingly compelling animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts. You can interact and dig into the data at The Fallen of World War II.

Source: The Fallen of World War II

If You Have Done Well

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“If you have done well in this business, it’s your obligation to send the elevator back down.”
— Kevin Spacey

 

The Art of Plushy Meditation

Harriet demonstrates the finer points on how to achieve inner peace during the holidays.

Minneapolis, Minnesota – December 7, 2014

Sound Advice at Lake Calhoun

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Sound Advice at Lake Calhoun > Stay Off.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 10, 2015