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| Complete know know |
| Published on: Jun 13, 2008 by Carl Munson
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| Keywords: collaboration, information, wiki
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| Categories: Society
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I've heard it said that academics are those people who know more and more about less and less. And the urge to know something to it's n'th degree is understandable, it's surely a form of love.
The advent of wikipedia seems to have heralded the age of knowing more and more about more and more - the web, collaboration and goodwill have come together to give us just about any information we need.
If you'd like to know more and more about some of the big issues of our time - and be able to co...
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| Going Radically Local… At Chipotle |
| Published on: Apr 23, 2008 by Lindsay Dozoretz
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| Categories: Society
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Joel Salatin, celebrated hero of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and owner of Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia was featured in the Washington Post last week for his latest local food endeavor – a partnership with the Mexican-style fast-food chain Chipotle. The chain, a former subsidiary of McDonald’s, will begin featuring Polyface Farm’s pork in its “carnitas” burrito at its Charlottesville location, some 45 miles from Salatin’s farm. Now, this may strike some as strange, as the ver...
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| Over-eating: Unravelling the Puzzle |
| Published on: Feb 04, 2008 by GinaShw@aol.com shaw
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In January 2008, a survey carried out by Lighter Life revealed that many British people feel there eating habits are out of control. Almost half of British women and a third of men think their weight is "out of control", according to a poll. And it seems the fatter people are, the less control they feel they have over other aspects of their life. More than half (55%) of the very obese said their finances were also spiraling out of control.
The poll of 995 adults also found that 38% of a...
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