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Friday Features

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It's been a wonky week. Amazing weekend last weekend (I'll recap soon) followed by an exhausting exhausting/sickly couple days. I'm zonked!  TGIF -- time to catch up on some ZZZs.

It's also FRIDAY Features! Here's some old and some new news and interesting reads!  I saved the best for last, too, so don't miss out:

Personal and Social

Want to understand introverts better--for a friend or for yourself?
This infographic totally made me go "this is me!"
For the why and how of interacting with introverts, click here to learn more.

Want to sound smarter in your writing?
Skim these 15 Words to Eliminate From Your Vocabulary.

A case study in social media's failure to tell the whole truth,
and the possible implications...
Madison Hollerand's Split Story


Nutrition

This HuffPo piece isn't new news anymore, but worth repeating until people get it:
Eggs Don't Cause Heart Attacks -- Sugar Does by Dr. Mark Hyman

NPR explains why sooo much research on he…
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Cultivate A Better World

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I shared this on the Dare You To Facebook Page last week, and maybe you've seen it floating around the web.  Dare you to watch this short film released by Chipotle and to imagine another way:
Chipotle's video (and game app) is hardly an advertisement; the company name is not promoted within. Chipotle is very clearly continuing its pursuits toward quality ingredients by daring us to cultivate a better world.  The "Scarecrow" witnesses the atrocious conditions of the "all natural" modern food industry, and decides to try another path.

What I love about this is, first, that Chipotle has been not only talking the talk, but also walking the walk. Earlier this year the company campaigned to make GMO labeling mandatory, vowed to get GMO ingredients out of their restaurants, and even went so far as to voluntarily reveal its current GMO ingredientswhen so many other companies--with the same or more amounts of GMO products--keep theirs secret.  Unfortunately, this g…
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