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by whyenot 10y ago
Imidclopirid is currently used to control bed bugs and also sprayed on animal bedding to kill lice and other insect parasites. While it has other problems (honeybees) it doesn't bioaccumulate like DDT does. Why would we ever want to go
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California stores plenty of water. Many times more than non-ag users would ever need. The issue is the incredible demand that agriculture, now just 2% of the state economy, places on water resources. If farmers want more water storage so th
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>FUD Could you elaborate on that a little? You are responding to an article containing hundreds of words and the best you can do is three letters? Why is it in Bloomberg's interest to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt? Where is th
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Is this why we have not yet found signs of intelligent life in the universe? Every time a civilization is advanced enough to really screw up (their) planet, inevitably, they do? Fermi Paradox redux.
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Here is a better summary from Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/amazon-rainforest-was-shaped-by-a... Here is the actual article (published on March 2nd): http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355&
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If it is going to place burdensome carry on restrictions on people the US government could at least explain why the measures are necessary. At the rate we are going, it's not going to be long before you will not be allowed to bring any
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> otherwise you cut through too many cell boundaries and let the water out too fast That really doesn't make any sense. If you slice across the grain, you might slice through more vascular tissue than if you sliced lengthwise, but o
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> It assumes Government subsidies for solar, which may be going away for political reasons. Isn't their car operation also vulnerable? Tax credits may be less easy to get rid of, from a political perspective, but I think Trump would
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At $9,000 per pound of meat, this is not going to be replacing real meat from animals anytime soon. Chickens are already highly efficient when it comes to converting feed into edible meat. I'm skeptical that cell culture will ever be a
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> Oh, they definitely notified their users. I am a Dropbox Plus user. I never received any emails. I just checked and the email address that dropbox has is correct. This change breaks the links to PDFs of some papers and posters that I p
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How big data broke American politics(nbcnews.com)
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Data are useful, but interpretation is more murky. You are interviewing the people who don't want to work at Uber anymore. The people who might not "fit in" (following your logic) are the people who aren't interested in
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I don't see it. A cow's rumen is amazing. You can feed a cow almost any vegetable matter and they will grow and produce milk and meat. Chickens and pigs are more particular but in terms of energy in to food out, are still very ine
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> All sources have bias Some are more biased than others. I think that's actually what people are discussing: how biased is Wikileaks? How heavily curated is the information they are releasing? Throwing up your hands and saying ever
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> READ MULTIPLE SOURCES You can't do that when Wikileaks is the only source.
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Why is it so important to send people on these missions outside of some 21st century version of manifest destiny? NASA could do so much more with its limited funding if it just cut out all the humans.
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Apparently dairy cows are perfectly happy and healthy eating a diet that is mostly sawdust. At least, that's what I learned when I took a course on ruminant nutrition and digestion when I was a graduate student at UC Davis.
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Skepticism is a good thing, but I think you are painting with an pretty broad brush. Penelope Boston was not an author on the arsenic extremeophile paper. The only connection I can come up with is that the lead author of the arsenic paper w
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When the crop is wind pollinated as is the case with wheat and other grasses, AND when there are closely related weeds and other plants nearby, a little caution seems like a good thing. As far as neonicotinamides, they are a very useful gro
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The film Tangerine was shot entirely on the iPhone with a budget of $100k. It earned $794k at the box office. It's still possible to produce commercially successful low budget films with lower production values. The trick is to tell an
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Sometimes I think there needs to be a corporate death penalty where a company that does something truly egregious is liquidated. The problem, of course, is that would also mean putting a lot of people out of work and would also hurt many wh
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Well in that case I guess it's ok?
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Nuclear energy needs a "reboot" if it is going to be accepted and widely adopted. A company that has been caught lying about its finances and has an environmental record that is ...challenging[1], probably isn't going to have
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One iOS app I used to use (Baytomat) offers to reward you with credits (normally purchased for money) if you write a 5 star review. This seems like it should be a blatant violation of Apple's App Store policies, but there is no easy wa
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Most primate species threatened with extinction, scientists find(nytimes.com)
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I didn't realize UC Berkeley was a private school.
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> [$90k 80% = $72k] as "low income," makes it incredibly difficult for me to read this with a straight face. A household* making $72k in Marin County could very easily spend half their income or more on rent (depending on the
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That's true, but it's a price worth paying IMO.
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I am so frustrated with how muted the current administration's response has been to the recent hacks. This is an attack on the most fundamental part of US democracy. It should be considered an act of war. Not only should that shape the
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When it comes to many ocean fisheries, we are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel, unfortunately. Take for example slimeheads (marketed as "orange roughy" in the USA). These fish live deep in the ocean, can take decades

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