While I like your takeaway (as always), the key sentence in your piece is the last: “The new analysis also did not consider environment-related or ethical reasons for avoiding meat, which are valid concerns as well.” I would actually argue, at least in a room of eaters who already know that whole foods are good for…

What’s fascinating is how not just local tastes but demographic interests are being served all out of the same bottomless tureen. JANE THE VIRGIN is winning two out of the three biggest Latinx states and is only losing New Mexico because the people there are as obsessed with the Whites as we Missourians are with the…

Finally went all plant based – we’d just reduced and reduced over the years until all the animal protein we were taking in was dairy – and then we watched a couple of “what happens on a dairy farm” vids and we were done. I’ve seen the research, don’t have it handy, showing vegans in a fairly large cohort…

Feel certain that it was.

That said, airlines can interpret what is and isn’t their fault. This trip, we were on the tarmac lined up to go Philly to Quebec City. Problem: T-storms in New York. ATC gives pilot an alternate plan. Problem 2: Plane don’t have enough fuel for that plan, gotta go back to the gate. Before we…

I don’t see what’s so extreme (or pull-quote-worthy) about dishwashing recyclables. The dishwasher is running anyway so the bean cans and yogurt tubs can “free-ride” on it. It’s exactly like taking buses, only with water instead of carbon.

As a longtime fan of the business writer Dan Pink — whom I’m a fan of mostly for being able to actually write, unless most business writers — I would note that he has a book out this week about this topic called When, and it’s pretty good so far.

Oh that’s brilliant. I see that Peter N Lewis (he wrote a little thing called Anarchie in the 1990s to speed up FTP) has a macros app called Keyboard Maestro that I never would have even thought to look for. I haven’t written a macro since the heyday of QuicKeys. But there’s a lot I’m willing to try before bringing a…

So, the crowd wants her to dump her Mac ... I can see that happening. What I can’t see happening is the iPhone going away, so this German product you recommend is very intriguing. Thanks!

In J-school we had to read Strunk and White and boy, did they have a stick up their ass about “hopefully.” But we may have moved on since then. I hope!

This reminded me of an ongoing problem in our house, so I’m putting it out there because the LH hivemind has come through for me in the past.

It’s back in print. About Comics reissued a facsimile of the 1940 edition with a couple of pages of explanatory text inserted. I picked up a copy at the Brown v. Board National Historic Site in Topeka. They also sell Jim Loewen’s criminally overlooked study, Sundown Towns.

Thank you Lifehacker. It’s typical of CrashPlan’s attitude toward consumers (ancient GUI, non-Mac-friendly file structure) that I found out this news here rather than from the company that’s taking $100+/year from me. Though they did send me, out of the blue, an upsell last week ...

The Kansas City Royals used taxpayer money to upgrade their vomitoriums into “super voms.”

I am telling everyone who will listen that while yes, of course you should bring safety glasses for watching the eclipse, don’t forget your overcoat! In 1978 we drove to a town in Montana where we could see totality for about 2 minutes. The staff from the science department (where my dad worked) made sure to bring…

You may have heard that anything before 1/1/1923 is out of copyright in the USA, and that’s true, but that’s not all that is. Most of Grant Wood’s work was done after 1922, but because he’s been dead more than 70 years, it’s now in the public domain. If you’re interested in all the ins and outs, Cornell Law’s USA…

Also we should just acknowledge the role of the food industry in persuading us that gluten free products are worth a premium spend. They give consumers a story to tell themselves and their friends. Stories are powerful and should be respected even if you think they’re bunk.

We just returned from a two-week road trip and I have to say our best and most reliable source of fast food was Trader Joe’s. It was actually a nice treat for us, since we usually skip the deli part of the store when shopping at home. Of course, you have to be passing through a major American city every 2-3 days, and…

First and foremost, because I know it will warm your heart, I’ve been running! I did a couch to 5k in July and since then have been slowly adding volume, strength (circuit training — yay pushups!) and interval training. Until a few months ago I thought VO2 was a line of hair products from the 1970s, but now I’m using…

I did a story years ago on TBL contestants and found that the only ones who kept it off afterward basically made fitness their job (trainers, nutritionists, fitness gurus). This seemed kinda sad to me UNTILLLL I took up running. And promptly lost 30 pounds I didn’t know I could lose. I hadn’t really thought of weight…

My variant on this is to listen to super-boring audiobooks. I sleep with someone who has low vision and is eligible for the National Library Service, which offers a huge selection of books read without enthusiasm. For bedtime we pick old titles like Grant’s Memoirs of the Civil War, or a biography of Bess Truman, or…