Woodpeckers can easily slam their beaks against wood with a force of 1000 times that of gravity.  They don't get concussions because of thick skulls.

There is already an average of  1 tablet per household in the US.  This is remarkable considering the ipad was launched just 2 years ago.  It took a lot longer for PCs and laptops to reach one per household.

Arsenic, which is added to chicken feed to promote unnaturally rapid growth, runs off into local waterways and leaches into groundwater.

What are the worst jobs in America?  According to a Careercast.com survey, journalist, disc jockey, mail carrier, lumberjack, and soldier.

The number of internships in the US soared in the recession.  In 2008, 50 percent of graduating students had held internships compared with 17 percent in 1992.

The United Nations declared Internet access a human right in June 2011.

Why, in other words, use the poor chicken as a machine to produce meat when you can use a machine to produce “meat” that seems like chicken?


- Mark Bittman