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by primroot 11y ago
Try roasted okra seeds then.
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by primroot 11y ago
Coffee has been traditionally grown within a forest containing both native flora as well as other productive species (cacao, banana, vanilla, etc.) that grow well under taller trees. So in a sense coffee _requires_ vertical farming, except
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Women can have it all in Iceland(ozy.com)
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Addicted to antibiotics, Chile's salmon flops at Costco, grocers(reuters.com)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening
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by primroot 11y ago
"Hitherto [1848] it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ... Only when, in addition to just institutions, the increase of mankind shall be under the deliberate
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Americans favor Supreme Court term limits – Reuters/Ipsos poll(reuters.com)
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On Care for Our Common Home(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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We should let climate change refugees resettle in America(subscribe.washingtonpost.com)
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by primroot 11y ago
Wouldn't you agree something similar applies to workplace discrimination? For example, I would never be willing to work with someone who discriminates against gays. However it is only due to my own economic circumstances that I'm
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by primroot 11y ago
If losing primarily means losing one's job, then it is social organization and culture that should be blamed not technological advancement. IMHO.
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by primroot 11y ago
> We should also have public subsidies for nuclear and solar to ensure rapid deployment." Can you elaborate on the relation between the nuclear energy industry and insurance companies? Even as someone who sympathizes with the goal o
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by primroot 11y ago
> and the uncertainty of future technological developments ought to inform our current decision of how much to spend addressing climate change. Well, that does not necessarily sound like something the author of the grandparent comment wo
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by primroot 11y ago
I found another review of the book that mentions geoengineering. "There will still be ocean acidification, smog, ozone depletion and so on and once we set on geoengineering our planet, we’ll likely get hooked and never turn back. In ma
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by primroot 11y ago
I would replace "are causing" for "are going to cause." One of may examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
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Implicit in this remark is the idea that all humans share roughly the same interests and concerns. As difficult conditions exacerbate conflicts the weight of interests is measured first in capital and then in violent prowess. http:/&#
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https://xkcd.com/164/
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Analog forestry(en.wikipedia.org)
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Demote Hamilton on the $10 Bill? Not So Fast, Treasury(nytimes.com)
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by primroot 11y ago
It would be the beauty of science if people referred to the weight of the evidence in more accurate language, and if policy makers didn't every now and then find excuses in weakly established conclusions.
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by primroot 11y ago
> So I'd argue that the bigger problem is people reading oversimplified reports of scientific information. And what about the AHA[1] and other policy makers and shapers? What leads them to make recommendations based on weakly establ
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A child born today may live to see humanity’s end, unless…(blogs.reuters.com)
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Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist (2010)(phys.org)
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by primroot 11y ago
just sell the test kits for all the supposed markers of longevity.
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Toting panels on donkeys, Maasai women lead a solar revolution(reuters.com)
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Doesn't the UPOV contribute legally to the "vendor lock-in"?
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I'd really be interested in knowing those that have been modified to be more nutritious, especially since a lot of nutritious food gets to stay out of the market due to its incapacity to stay fresh. I only know of Golden Rice, and I&#x
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by primroot 11y ago
I look forward to the day when the scientists bless humanity with a photosynthesis gene, so that our autotrophy-powered intellectual capacities can help the Free Market lead us to the next Pareto optimal unencumbered by animal impatience.
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Guatemala syphilis experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
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U.S. lawmakers vote to scrap meat labeling laws(reuters.com)
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