These are empty information calories, to borrow a phrase from Clay Johnson's timely new book, The Information Diet.
Going on an information diet with a high-end cable sports package is like trying to go on a diet while subscribing to a daily fried chicken and ice cream delivery service.
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This survey (which the Pew people have conducted in each presidential cycle since 1996) has provided the premise for a number of news stories raising concerns about the younger generation's information diet: by getting information directly from topical comics, the metaphorical argument goes, they are skipping their spinach and going straight for the pumpkin pie.
They also yielded interesting information about diet and disease for the average Roman citizen and immigrant.
Information on diet and lifestyle also needs to be popularised.
The nurses offer guidance in areas such as child development, preventative health measures, parenting skills, breastfeeding, better diet information and on education and employment.
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Farmeron is a Web data service that farmers can use to aggregate the troves of information produced about their animals: diet, health, reproduction, milk production and medicine or drug dosage.
Some 54 million Americans are currently on a diet, according to the International Food Information Council.
"Based upon the information currently available, Wyeth believes that there is no basis to change reserves relating to the diet drug litigation, " the firm said in a statement released after the close of trading Thursday.
After Johnson explains all about information misconsumption, epistemic loops and agnotology, he devotes part two of the book to delivering enlightened diet tips.
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