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As our graduation from the Masters program we’re drawing out as best we can approaches (very, very slowly), we’re already trying to figure out where to apply for our next degree. Of course, the money thing is a bit of a problem… so we’re perusing the academic credentials of the universities featured in mental_floss’s listicle [...]

Last week we looked at some art and crafty facial hair substitutes in the days leading up to Halloween, plotting the possibility of knitting beards for our own costume. This week we’re contemplating facial hair of a very different, decidedly more organic and unruly sort: the bee beard. Holytaco has assembled a a listicle of [...]

Today is Farmers Day (also known as Old Farmers Day), an annual occasion for the celebration of the United States’ rich history as a nation of agricultural producers. Now, as the country’s relationship to that agrarian past continues to evolve–with urban and organic farming renewing interest in an industry dominated by multinational corporations–we can take [...]

We’ve come a long way from the days when the only produce we took the time to buy organic was rasberries. Still, you can’t pay for organic fruit and veg with listicles (one day!), so every trip to the grocery store culminates in a heated town hall-like meeting where every member on the produce aisle [...]

An interesting New York Times story on the impending collapse of the Colorado River’s water delivery system – which supplies water to 7 Southwestern states – has us worried about our friends and relations living in Arizona and Southern California. (It also made us think of that incredible Joan Didion article, “Holy Water”, about the [...]

Where do the local and organic food revolutions leave genetically modified crops? Well, aside from clandestinely taking over the food supply in North America and being banned in parts of Europe, GM crops have sort of fallen off the map. However, WebEcoist provides a helpful listicle of 7 Intriguing Genetically Modified Fruits and Vegetables, which [...]

Yeah, we know, this sounds tough, but in reality Sarah Newman’s listicle has less to do with the actual labor of growing food than with knowing where your food actually comes from. And really, that makes a lot of sense, no? Wouldn’t you rather know what nearby farm your veggies come from (and have the [...]

Those movie-going environmentalists over at TreeHugger have compiled a helpful listicle that could just as easily read “Top 5 Food Movies of 2008.” For the year that saw the new localism go global (”glocalism”?) and widespread awareness of what’s at stake in the shifting debates over how we produce and distribute our food, it makes [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]