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Rules of thumb for folks who are all thumbs…

“The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree” by Audrey Fukman and Andy Wright
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(from SFoodie, via Flowing Data)

As to the title of the chart, see “To eat or not to eat: seniors prove ‘five-second rule’ more like 30,” from Connecticut College…

As we stoop to conquer, we might recall that it was on this date in 1848 that James Wilson Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, in Coloma, California.  When news of the discovery spread, some 300,000 men, women, and children flocked to California, picks and pans in hand, from the rest of the United States and abroad– the California Gold Rush was on.

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