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 Sometimes a picture or a chart puts a concept into better perspective than a hundred articles do.
Common supplements are represented by larger and smaller colored circles, placed higher or lower depending on the scientific evidence of claimed benefits. The snapshot illustrates the relation of one nutrient to another in an easy-to-grasp visual display.
I love this chart and the style of it a lot; I studied it the way I study maps, which is, much longer and much closer than the normal person.
If you like this chart or “infograph” as it is called, check out a few more for the health conscious and hypochondriacs alike. If you like the concept of great visual display of information, read the blog devoted entirely to infographs. (Name me a subject that doesn’t have a blog devoted to it.)
Now I must run out and buy a boatload of green tea.
- MORE RECEIVE HELP TO AVERT FORECLOSURES
- FED’S MINUTES SHOW A RISE IN CONFIDENCE IN ECONOMY
- FACTORIES GET SET TO HIRE
- CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES UP 1.5%
- A STIMULUS PLAN SUCCESS STORY
These five headlines all appeared yesterday in the front section of the right-leaning Wall Street Journal. All of the them in one day. All of them positive stories about economic recovery, one year after the stimulus package was signed.
You might have to believe the stimulus package is working.
What would the headlines have read without the stimulus:
UNEMPLOYMENT HITS 25%?
GET READY FOR ANOTHER RUN ON THE BANKS?
We’ll never know for certain. That’s the tiny peg Obama’s opponents are hanging their hats on.
All the angry anti-Obama talk is just rhetoric, sound bites with no substance.
Any Republican or Obama opponent who comes forth with a clear, logical point of view will earn my respect.
Anyone out there? Hellooooooo?
 Obama has made another swift and decisive move to return America to the free country it used to be.
Media images of flag-draped caskets carrying dead soldiers from Iraq and Afganistan have been banned for five years. Today, in keeping with the Obama policy of truthfulness, the censorship ended.
Photos of caskets of fallen soldiers document the starkest reality of war: people die. You can’t whitewash it, though the Bush administration tried.
The elder Bush banned these images to keep the war an abstraction to as much of the public as possible. Casket images in the Vietnam era started much of the anti-war sentiment that grew out of the government’s control. Some families of fallen soldiers defend the ban, citing their right to privacy. If the caskets were open, perhaps they would have a case. Families of victims should get empathy and support, not the right to make policy.
Censorship is wrong, wrong, wrong.
 Muzak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and I am already busy picking out music for the funeral.
Maybe we’ll start with a soft instrumental version of The Beatles’ “Come Together” or a smooth jazz version of “Jailhouse Rock”.
Nothing represents mundane emptiness like Muzak. Muzak, a brand name like Q-tips and Kleenex, has become the generic name for the generic music it distributes, aka elevator music.
Elevator music might not be so bad if it remained in elevators. But it is pumped into office buildings, dentist offices, and into your ears in the form of telephone hold music.
Muzak takes music and sanitizes it to not offend, blends sounds and tracks to be there and not be there at the same time. For a detailed trip to Muzak-land read this 2006 New Yorker article on Muzak.
I don’t wish misfortune on any company with employees. But as a concept, the death of Muzak is a triumph for art.
City Room
By AL BAKER and KAREN ZRAICK 26 minutes ago
A pedestrian was hit by an S.U.V. in Queens, then struck by a van and dragged into Brooklyn. He is dead.
This tragic story appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. The second sentence hit me as rather Hemmingway-esque. The pedestrian was dragged 17 miles. Is anyone surprised he is dead? If the poor soul survived, the Times would have a man-bites-dog story.
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Sometimes a picture or a chart puts a concept into better perspective than a hundred articles do.
