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Want to stretch your mental horizons? The Founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, and one of the leading minds of our generation, Stewart Brand, takes a controversial stand on nuclear power, biogenetics, and more. For dessert, click on the Forum link and see some very telling responses. Link: Environmental Heresies by Stewart Brand, May 2005…

Google is launching a new service to help creative people get their videos to a wider audience. Not only can they store their videos on Google servers, but they will have access to tools to help them protect the copyright and promote viewership. Better creative lifestyles through technology, once again. Link: MediaPost by Gavin O’Malley…

It doesn’t get more inspiring than this. Link: WSJ.com – In Battling Hunger, A New Advance: Peanut-Butter Paste by Roger Thurow (subscription required) Plumpy’nut is the serendipitous result of one man’s breakfast-time revelation, which came after years of research by nutritionists. Made by a French company in the Normandy countryside, Plumpy’nut has been fed to…

In BusinessWeek (sighted by Tim Manners at Reveries), Anthony Bianco gives a comprehensive profile of Wal-Mart’s antithesis… Jungle Jim’s might well be America’s wackiest supermarket, but there is method to Bonaminio’s madness. Instead of trying to beat the big chains at their price-squeezing game, Bonaminio has built a funhouse maze of a store north of…

Trying to make an idea happen can be one of the most frustrating experiences. I guess when you have a lot of ideas, it’s tempting to  keep too many alive. After you’ve decide that you must make a difference, you have to pick and focus, as described by Rebecca Lieb at ClickZ: Faith and a…

Granted the readers were IT professionals, but 101communications has released some well-done research about people who read the digital edition of a magazine instead of the printed version. It confirms my suspicion that digital readers are more influential in researching and sharing what they’ve read. Thanks to Joe Mandese for covering this news in MediaPost‘s…

Broadcast continues its decine into irrelevancy. Link: WSJ.com – Gore Group to Start Cable Channel as Youth Forum by Joe Flint (subscription required) A cable channel recently acquired by an investment group led by Al Gore is to relaunch Aug. 1 under the name Current, hoping to generate much of its content from viewers. The…

I was supposed to be watching television with my family the other night and my husband abruptly said, "WHAT are you reading?" My teenage son and daughter stopped watching the TV and looked at me, sitting in the swivel-rocker with the laptop computer in my lap. "I’m reading about the Doors of Perception, this cool…

Thanks to Virginia Postrel for sighting this important innovation story! It’s Growing on Us by Candy Sagon in the Washington Post: Spinach’s popularity nationwide began creeping upward in the ’80s, with the popularity of salad bars and pre-washed bags of lettuce. But what really made the difference, say Bezart and others in the industry, was…

I don’t read much celebrity news. (I swear, I only look at the fashion photos in PEOPLE.) But I recommend you read this interview with Carmen Diaz about her new show Trippin’. It will warm your heart. And maybe give you an idea of how to make a difference… Link: The New York Times >…