>> Remember when we had penguins? Okay — We still have penguins, but we used to have more of them. Fen Montaigne’s put together a slide show about Adélie penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula and climate change in The New Yorker.

>> Remember all those articles, interviews, and documentaries about Monsanto’s should-be-illegal tactics against non-GMO farmers? The mainstream media’s now caught on to all that. “Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.’s business practices reveal how the world’s biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found.” Earlier: Food, Inc. — Who decides your dinner? and Food Fray — Everything you wanted to know about GM food.

>> Remember batting around a ping pong ball with strangers at the MOCA? Gabriel Orozco’s work may be at the MOMA’s retrospective now, but I first discovered the artist while playing a friendly game of Ping Pond (sic) at the MOCA in downtown L.A. If you don’t know his work yet, discover it now.

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