Random links
- The big problem with vehicles that run on natural gas: methane.
- Cites one study as concluding that"when methane is considered, the total global warming impact for natural gas vehicles could be greater than current diesel buses." The article also notes that "In April 2011, researchers at Cornell published a study that concluded that if methane leaks are considered, natural gas contributes more to global warming than oil or coal" but noted "an emerging consensus that containing the leaks is neither difficult nor expensive"
- Baltimore researchers turn carnivorous fish into vegetarians
- "In 2009, Watson set out with a NOAA grant to demonstrate that cobia could live without eating meat. With the help of Place and Barrows, he sought to show that a veggie diet would also reduce the amount of contaminants ... absorbed by wild fish feeding in polluted waters"
- The other slave trade
- "Europe used to export slaves to the non-European world. Such a statement would astonish most people today, even among the university-educated. Surely, those slaves were few in number, certainly fewer than the African slaves taken across the Atlantic. And surely all of that happened long before the Atlantic slave trade. Well, no and no."
- You May Now Kiss the Computer Screen
- "in a twist that underscores technology’s ability to upend traditional notions about romance, people are not just finding their match online, but also saying “I do” there. These are called proxy marriages, a legal arrangement that allows a couple to wed even in the absence of one or both spouses. They date back centuries"