Pyramid scheme

Pyramid scheme

Step up to the plate: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ditched the food pyramid many of us grew up with as the guide to eating nutritiously. The new guide is a plate, divided into four differently sized quadrants for fruits, vegetables, grains and proteins with a blue circle at the side for dairy.

If this doesn’t work, the USDA will ditch the plate and switch to something more familiar to Americans, the food pizza slice, which will be divided into pepperoni, sauce, olives and cheese-stuffed crust.

3-D glasses not included: Paul Allen’s Science Fiction Museum at the Experience Music Project in Seattle opened a new exhibit Saturday that explores the world of “Avatar,” the 2009 James Cameron movie about Pandora and its race of blue-skinned Na’vi.

So the blue-tinged people you see now walking around Seattle are either getting into the “Avatar” spirit or still haven’t warmed up after the chilly spring weather.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association was founded in London.

Seeking to represent a diverse cross-section of London society, the YMCA appointed to its first board a soldier, a construction worker, a cop, a cowboy, a biker and an American Indian.

–Jon Bauer, Herald staff