• Silicon Valley says Step Away from the Device (July 23, 2012 / NYT). "The concern, voiced in conferences and in recent interviews with many top executives of technology companies, is that the lure of constant stimulation — the pervasive demand of pings, rings and updates — is creating a profound physical craving that can hurt productivity and personal interactions."
• "Overparenting lite" is a healthier way to go than "toxic overparenting," Madeline Levine says in the NYT opinion story Raising Successful Children (Aug. 4, 2012).
• Preschool Children Who can Pay Attention More Likely to Finish College (Science Daily, Aug. 6, 2012)
• Tinkerlab posted some great reads to spark your family's creativity.
• Audiobooks.com is a "Netflix" for audio books, written up in MacWorld a long while back.
And, file under "more alarmist food news" (AKA: Oh God, what can't we eat NOW?!):
• "Organic" is profit-making so of course large companies are grabbing pieces of it as fast as their hands can stuff their pockets. They're calling it "Big Organic," and there's a race to approve non-organic ingredients as okay for foods labeled as "organic." Read the (gross, but not surprising) story "Has Organic been Oversized?" (July 7, 2012) from the NYT here.
• Some olive oil is not olive oil (NYT). I'm late to this story, but thoroughly fed up with the deception in food labeling that we permit in our country. Related stories from non-news sources here and here—I haven't checked the research background of those related sites.
• Agave is not good for you, according to the Real Food Forager. Old news, new writeup.
• Starbucks has a lot of complicated, non-organic, processed, ingredients in its food, according to 100daysofrealfood.com. A LOT. The Reduced Fat Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake reportedly has 75 ingredients. Michael Pollan wouldn't recommend it, I'd guess.
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