The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

Corn-based ethanol is just dumb for many reasons, but an important and undercited reason is that it drives up the price of corn. Similarly, biofuel demand in Germany has driven up the price of glucose by 30%, which will intern drive up the price of a huge variety of snacks, including gummy bears. [...]

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I’m not a big shopper, but one thing that has struck me as almost universally true is that the clearance rack in a clothing store is filled almost exclusively with the extreme sizes–your XLs, XXLs, and even the occasional XS. Given that I wear a medium, this means that I very rarely can purchase [...]

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TheScientist has an article that discusses a disease called “Greening” that has already decimated the orange populations of China and Thailand, and has started killing those in Brazil and the United States (the global #1 and #2 orange producers, respectively). Could we be at the beginning of an orange-free future?

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Bizaar. Thanks for the link, Nova.

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In a facinating interview about “building sound,” I found this incredible quote:
Knowing about how things work only increases our feelings of wonder and awe about them, just as keeping things mysterious only causes us to argue and opinionate.

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