That Sugar Film

...right place. The strongest scenes were during visits to two disadvantaged communities, an Aboriginal town in the Australian outback and a poor community in rural Appalachia. You won’t ever forget the early graves of the Aboriginal graveyard and the tragic dental problems of one of the Appalachian protagonists. In these miserable communities, Gameau shows that our addiction to sugar is not a matter of personal choice, but instead a result of preda...

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Video Sundays: Let’s Take a Musical Break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ui2deAKr8 Kelly and I consider ourselves very fortunate to have been able to see Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in concert back in the 90s. He’s considered by many to be the greatest of Qawwali (a type of Sufi devotional music) singers of all time. Falling down a youtube hole, I discovered this remarkable video. Please note the paradoxical moment of ecstatic silence that happens around the 12:51 mark. Also note the beauti...

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Saturday Linkages: Cool Furniture and Other Thoughtstylings

...(@rootsimple) May 27, 2015 Keep your eye on the corn ethanol situation ://www.ewg.org/agmag/2015/05/how-corn-ethanol-worse-climate-change-keystone-pipeline — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2015 A pastoral case for bike lanes: http://t.co/mW2zujYNhC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2015 Folding Cedar Lawn Chair http://t.co/TnUzWkMIxO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 28, 2015 Slipstream Table (Experiments in Aluminum and Plywood Lamination) ht...

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DIY Portable Pizza Oven

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QToDg3Ow0 I just spoke with Eric Rochow of GardenFork.TV .(He’ll be our guest on the next podcast.) If you don’t know Gardenfork, you should. Eric has put together a lot of cool videos and podcasts. One of my favorite is this portable pizza oven. I’m thinking of building one for local events. For more info on Eric’s pizza oven check out his pizza oven page....

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