If Pixar Made NSA Advertisements

It’s only 20 seconds long, but the video should make you think twice before considering the NSA leaks insignificant.

The MANY Faces Of Minimum Wage Workers

Just teens? Just fast food? Just a second job for a few moms who have more free time than they do pottery classes? Hardly. If you want to abolish minimum wage–or gripe about the “unwarranted” demands of those who attempt to live on it–you should probably talk to them first and have your self-serving misconceptions soundly debunked.

How “Hard-Hitting” Interviews Have Killed Journalism

When “serious journalists” are around equally serious lying, preening and self-promoting politicians, their techniques will naturally be affected. The result is either an insipid, tail-between-legs sequence of nods, feigned laughter and facile banter about the family cocker spaniel (a la Barbara Walters) or shouting bouts where the so-called journalist must prove his ego is the size of Canada or immediately perish (re: Bill O’Reilly). The point is that neither approach lends itself to meaningful, truthful and intellectually-charged discussion, and those who suffer most are the people who care enough about the state of affairs to tune in. We can do better, guys.

62 Years Of Climate Change In 13 Seconds

All images come from NASA. You might notice that temperature increases accelerate in the 1970s; that’s around when greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect on the climate, and thus were masking some of the global warming signal.

While yet another fact-based video demonstrating climate change’s existence won’t change your mind if you still think that climate change is a liberal, “lame stream” media hoax, it should cause you to question why your maker might cause such a fluctuation in temperatures and weather patterns over “nothing”.

Would You Eat At 50 School Cafeterias In The Name Of Progress?

In the United Kingdom, about a quarter of students leaving school doors will do so as an obese person, and the National Health Service spends a lot of money–too much money–treating illnesses related to bad diets every day of the year. What might the two have in common? School lunch programs. But in order to figure out how to improve them, these savvy policy makers decided to visit over 50 schools, try their lunches, and then decide where to go from there. The first step to improving bad policy is to live it, and as our pinstriped congressmen discuss pizza sauce the vegetable as childhood obesity is on its way to becoming a national health crisis, perhaps they could take a few pointers from these Brits.