(via BoingBoing) As someone who spends way too much time “collaborating” by way of exchanging slide decks and arguing the minutiae of bullet points, I was always a big fan of Edward Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (though I didn’t know a second edition was out). In honor, then, of inauguration day, here’s Obama’s famous “Yes We Can” speech [...]

(Via Vegan.com) Excellent piece by Mike Tidwell in Audubon Magazine: The Low Carbon Diet. I was a bit concerned when Tidwell opened with the usual “confession” that so many apologias for meat eating use, a trope I’m tired of reading: Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. [...]

(Via Veggie Going Vegan via Veggie Chic) Very happy to see this great set of resources from the Mayo Clinic – Vegetarian Diet: How to Get the Best Nutrition – which begins: Adopting a healthy vegetarian diet isn’t as simple as scraping meat off your plate and eating what’s left. You need to take extra steps to ensure you’re meeting [...]

Some days it’s really difficult to understand the depths of human cruelty and hatred. Today just became one of those days for me, as I read about the recent attack on Mercy For Animals founder Nathan Runkle. From the press release issued by MFA: Nathan Runkle, the 24-year old openly gay founder and Executive Director of the national animal advocacy [...]

One of my favorite songs from what I think of as “first-period” U2 (the era before Unforgettable Fire) has always been “New Year’s Day,” with its juxtaposition of optimism and acquiescence, suggesting: Nothing changes on New Year’s Day. On New Year’s Day. But then at the center of the song declaring with renewed affirmation: Though torn in two We can [...]