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The flowers are blooming, the weather is warm, pollen clouds are in the air….wait, pollen clouds?  Yes.  Pollen clouds.  Welcome to the land of the long leaf pines, where pollen producing trees grow in abundance and a coating of yellow dust reappears five minutes after you wipe the allergy inducing stuff off of your picnic table.  But don’t it get you down!  Spring is still my favorite season by far.

This week, I stumbled upon these interesting links around the web:

Watch this calligrapher recreate logos by hand!  I’m constantly amazed by calligraphy.

As we come off the tail-end of a stellar basketball season for Duke, the Duke-UNC rivalry is clear in Chapel Hill.  Duke had a great team this year and a record-breaking coach, who deserves respect for all he has accomplished.  However, there is still a strong community bond in the hatred of Duke, and one player in particular.

Now that basketball season is over, we move on to The Masters.  Need a guide to the top contenders in this year’s tournament?  The New Yorker has you covered.  The front-runner, Jordan Spieth is only 21-years old.  I’ll stick to putt-putt, thank you.

As an advertising major, this infographic of the best social media usage of equipment brands in the PGA tour means way more to me than the number swings taken at one hole.  TaylorMade is the top brand in overall reach, mentions and user engagement, while Nike, Under Armour and Titleist didn’t make the top three.  That may change if aforementioned frontrunner Jordan Spieth, who is sponsored by both the latter two brands, wins the coveted green jacket.

If you know me, you know how much I love almonds.  California produces 80 percent of the world’s supply of almonds.  Cool, right?  Except that the Golden State is now in one of the worst droughts on record and 80 percent of it’s water is used for farming.  According to this article, it takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow ONE almond.  But that’s nothing compared to walnuts.  Those thirsty little buggers gulp down 4.9 gallons PER NUT!  Not to mention the thousands of gallons it takes to get meat to your plate.  This put’s that leaky faucet into perspective.  Forget oil pipelines, send water!

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather!

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