A column at Scientific American encourages Americans to abandon traditional grass lawns in favor of other plantings.
A gallery of over 50 photos of a shoe store that was closed up and left alone for 40 years.
A column at Salon offers "Eight signs the rich have way too much money."
The Beatles were introduced to marijuana by Bob Dylan. "The Beatles didn't fall immediately under the spell of marijuana, but
after a few months, according to John, they were "smoking it for
breakfast," "Let's have a laugh" soon became their code line for "Let's
have some marijuana."
Fruit juice may be worse for children than soda pop. "A book from the 1920s on feeding
children by L Emmett Holt says that you should give toddlers just one to
four tablespoons (15-60ml) of fresh orange or peach juice. Compare this with
today's 200ml children's juice boxes, which contain about 17g sugar, the
equivalent of more than four teaspoons.
The biggest problem with juice, as far as Lustig is concerned, is the lack of
fibre."
Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone tackles the college loan scandal.
"It's complicated. But throw off the mystery and what you'll uncover is
a
shameful and oppressive outrage that for years now has been
systematically perpetrated against a generation of young adults... our
university-tuition system really is exploitative and unfair, designed
primarily to benefit two major actors [colleges/universities and the
government]."
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