'The Great Fish Swap': How America Is Downgrading Its Seafood Supply npr.org

One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes.

Best line from the show paraphrased “In tandem with the commodification of fish protein is the American tendency to avoid taste.”

We want to eat “fish” but nothing that’s fishy.

Erik Spiekermann is one of the best-known typographers and graphic designers in the world. Not only does he represent German typeface and corporate design like no other, but his work and the companies he founded—MetaDesign, FontShop, and EdenSpiekermann—have also had an unparalleled influence on contemporary graphic design around the globe.

How Life Transformed the Planet aeon.co

Life is likewise responsible for more than 90 per cent of the 200-plus known minerals of uranium, as well as the great majority of minerals of nickel, cobalt, molybdenum, lead, arsenic, carbon, sulphur and numerous other elements that readily react with oxygen. Only a living planet could display such mineralogical fecundity.

An astounding article on how life is responsible for most of the minerals on earth.