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“What are you afraid of?”: San Joaquin Valley College on going back to school

There may be as many reasons to not go to college as there are to go. In this 2016 commercial from San Joaquin Valley College, a jug of laundry detergent tries to convey a serious message to a potential future student. Would you be persuaded? Have a look and decide.

Read it here: San Joaquin Valley College, "Talking laundry detergent"

“Is sushi healthy?”: Kevin Quealy & Margot Sanger-Katz on perceptions of healthfulness

Are granola bars good for you? If you said “yes,” you are in agreement with more than two-thirds of the general public, but with only 28% of professional nutritionists. New York Times writers Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz conducted a survey among nutritionists and ordinary eaters about their perceptions of the healthfulness of several dozen common foods. The results of their survey were published in this June 2016 post in the newspaper’s companion site, The Upshot.

Read it here: Quealy and Sanger-Katz, “’Is sushi healthy? What about granola? Where Americans and nutritionists disagree”