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Creatures big and small | Jake's Blog
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Just another WordPress.com site. Creatures big and small. Visitors at good natural history museums point. The urge is irresistible. Museum employees see those index fingers and smile. For they are a universal symbol of readiness to learn. And there, I think, lies the genius of the dinosaur exhibit. Education made easy by wonder. But what does that education accomplish? How does it improve a child’s life to learn the difference between an brontosaurus and a brachiosaurus? And that six year old? Maybe part...
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A More Perfect Market: What The People Want
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A More Perfect Market. Wednesday, September 23, 2009. What The People Want. Pretty sure I'll always feel a special love for the Chinese street entrepreneurs with the sootiest, greasiest hands. Note: That video came into my life through the TIME Video. Feed, something to which I subscribed after finding out. How do you work this. At TIME Video, and I couldn't figure out how to subscribe only to Ze. The inescapable pre-vid ads. Posted by Jake de Grazia. What The People Want. How do you work this. If you ev...
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A More Perfect Market: More Than Abundant
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A More Perfect Market. Monday, June 22, 2009. I wrote the word corn. Yesterday. It made me think of syrup and advertising. Which sent me on a search for an ad. Which reminded me of an interview with Earl Butz. A documentary about a couple of kids that want to see what it's like to farm with the big boys, filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney ask. Butz, Secretary of Agriculture in the Nixon administration, why he created corn subsidies. Posted by Jake de Grazia. I wrote the word corn. A documentary about a...
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A More Perfect Market: Eggplants and Hazelnuts
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A More Perfect Market. Thursday, September 24, 2009. Justin Finnegan and I never lived in the same Chinese city at the same time. Our paths did some crossing, however, both in this country and that. Always enjoyably. As far as I know, he's still affectionately known, to his Chinese friends, as The Big Eggplant. And, after a couple of years back in the States, he's taken his show on the road. To Bhutan. To plant hazelnut trees. Entrepreneurially. Microfinancially. Adventurously. Posted by Jake de Grazia.
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A More Perfect Market: Smells Like Money to Me
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A More Perfect Market. Sunday, June 21, 2009. Smells Like Money to Me. I'm a little worried that the first half of this preview is going to chase people away. But wait for the music to change; it gets good. People have gotta start demanding good, wholesome food of us, and we'll deliver, I promise you. Crazy that something that simple - that fundamental - that obvious - is so hard to do. Big world, I guess. Lotta corn. Lotta money invested in both. Posted by Jake de Grazia. Smells Like Money to Me. If you...
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A More Perfect Market: February 2009
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A More Perfect Market. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Fighting Dirty Over Clean Coal. As the world's 67th most important clean coal blogger. As of June 2008), I feel that it's my responsibility to post this and comment. Makes me think of Al Gore's call for strategic persuasion. And makes me wonder if Al would think if this ad has taken that persuasion too far. Is it ok, ethically, under any circumstances, to persuade without touching the argument? Here's a TV spot from the other side of the debate. Had to ...
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Just another WordPress.com site. The museum’s new landscaping – the beginning of it, at least – looks very nice, very Southern California, very elegantly spiky. The thing that actually interests me most about that shot is the P, not the spikes, but that’s another story for another day, as they say.). But I wonder the extent to which it – the landscaping – plans on being educational. This makes me wonder:. I can guess, of course. Humans and food go way back. There would be no WordPress or intern o...How d...
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A More Perfect Market: Sadness, Sanity, Cynicism, and Van Jones
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A More Perfect Market. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Sadness, Sanity, Cynicism, and Van Jones. Still sad about the Van Jones resignation. Sad that Glenn Beck. Has so much influence. Sad that one of very few environmental leaders that appeals across races and socioeconomic backgrounds didn't get a chance to spend more time on one of the world's biggest stages. Sad that the world's most powerful government lost someone that simultaneously champions justice and sustainability. For now I'm being cynical.
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Defining natural history | Jake's Blog
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Just another WordPress.com site. This makes me wonder:. In part because I want to know about that guitar. And in part because I want to know what makes an edible garden natural history. I can guess, of course. Humans and food go way back. There would be no WordPress or intern or Specialized Journalism without those brilliant ancient North Americans that turned a boring old scrubgrass into corn. But how do we educate second graders on field trips about that? Possibly through an edible garden tour.
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Speaking of plants | Jake's Blog
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Just another WordPress.com site. The museum’s new landscaping – the beginning of it, at least – looks very nice, very Southern California, very elegantly spiky. The thing that actually interests me most about that shot is the P, not the spikes, but that’s another story for another day, as they say.). But I wonder the extent to which it – the landscaping – plans on being educational. Another story for another assignment →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Notify me of new comments via ...