.. the trajectory of America's food from gathering to garbage bin.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] culinate dld.bz/K9QG

Maryn McKenna: The second strain of MRSA acquired resistance to antibiotic treatment quickly. [#Superbug] BBCHealth dld.bz/JgwB

McKenna: MRSA doesn't need a cut in the skin in order to cause disease. [#Superbug] jimmyfallon kanyewest DavidSpade dld.bz/JgwB

Dederer: Poser: My Life.. Yoga Poses: "Breast-feeding was simply the first item in a long, abstruse to-do list." Books dld.bz/Pssq

Barack Obama: "Well, I suspect that I sound incurably naive, wedded to lost hopes." [Dreams from My Father] WhiteHouse dld.bz/N3KY

"There was no need to construct a myth about the vitality and independence of the very old.." [Never Say Die] Books dld.bz/PNvv

Neurologist Oliver Sacks has had to learn to adapt to a world that appears to be entirely flat. [NPRFreshAir Books] dld.bz/JgwB

Philip Dray: ".. an advance of food for the poorest families.." [There is Power in a Union] dld.bz/PD7q

Jonathan Alter: "From the start Obama was boxed in not only by the mess that Bush left him.." [The Promise] Books dld.bz/P6DR

Cornel West wants the love to flow so that poor people will have the same dignity as investment bankers [#Colbert Books] dld.bz/NJXt