"Industrialized agriculture may be killing us slowly but it has also brought the cost down on food."

Seemed to have trouble embedding (and editing in) the above video, so here's another shot:

This is a pretty compelling story from a doctor who cured her MS (a purportedly incurable disease) by eating what was by all accounts the Paleo diet. Well worth the watch. (seem to have trouble embedding - [www.youtube.com] )

Dragons...it be dragons, boy.

That was amazing. Just fucking perfectly stated.

I've been meaning to watch this TED talk, but I think it falls under the "natural" burial method. You're apparently buried in some suit seeded with "pollution-gobbling mushrooms." Should help with the decomposition, and, according to mycologist Paul Stamets, mushrooms work like gangbusters in feeding soil and…

Haven't seen any of the other ones, but the inclusion of #6 is beyond the call of horseshit. Sir Ken Robinson's talk was absolutely phenomenal, as is this condensed RSA-animate version of the same topic/subject matter.

Given the propensity of naming strains in the cannabis community, I say we go with Buzz Kill on this one.

This sounds like a job for Bullshit Man!

My pleasure! Thanks for sharing your personal experience on the matter, really drives the point home.

Great book on the subject:

Biomimetics is the way of the future (even in organizational aspects, it would seem). Don't know if it was posted on here or Giz, but it also brings to mind MIT Media Lab's Joichi Ito's statement from that "100 years from now" thing:

And Occupy. Wait a second...occupy...octapus...dear god.

Along with what ross.walline and jmeltzer said, a "low-fat" diet is not necessarily a good diet. A "low-fat, high-carbohydrate" is even worse. Your body uses food fats as building materials in stuff like myelin sheaths, cell membranes and hormones. You also probably hear about "brain-healthy" or "heart healthy" fats…

Calorie measurements took place in a test tube where no other factors came into play. So scientists wrongly concluded that fat (9 calories per gram) is twice as fattening as proteins and carbohydrates (4 calories per gram). This isn't true.

That was awesome, thanks for that. The systems of the body are complex and interconnected, and the body, its cells, and its 5 trillion member bacteria intestinal community uses fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in different ways (vitamins, minerals, amino-acids, etc...) in building it up and providing it energy (and,…

There's something we can do now that would have an impact on each one of those problems, while simultaneously having a positive effect on the climate - a farming technique called management-intensive grazing:

People don't become healthier when eating grain over meat, especially when it comes to grass-fed meat. Plus, monoculture crops like grain require copious amounts of fossil fuels to grow, which contributes (along with the monoculture practice itself) to the destruction of soil and the depletion of its nutrients, which…

Screw dragon scales, give me the dragonfly wing.

One of my favorite books on the patterns in nature (from fractals to the human body to chemistry to musical tones to how artists/sculptors/architects/writers incorporate them into their art/stories). It's well worth the purchase, but also available in full online: