Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

Lovable celebrity chef Jamie Oliver takes the stage at TED and talks about why Americans (and most of the developed world) are eating themselves to death.

Here’s the video:

and a summary of talking points if you’re too lazy to watch it.

Boing Boing found this great quote about journalism. Guess when it’s from:

“America has in fact transformed journalism from what it once was, the periodical expression of the thought of the time, the opportune record of the questions and answers of contemporary life, into an agency for collecting, condensing and assimilating the trivialities of the entire human existence, [...] the frantic haste with which we bolt everything we take, seconded by the eager wish of the journalist not to be a day behind his competitor, abolishes deliberation from judgment and sound digestion from our mental constitutions. We have no time to go below surfaces, and as a general thing no disposition.”

An interesting article that ponders if the iPad could actually cannibalize the remaining print readers of newspapers instead of spurring new ones.

ACL points us to a great vintage vid of some Ivy League winter carnival thing. Sorry, no Bonhomme.

Dartmouth Winter Carnival from Michael Williams on Vimeo.

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