Meat produced through rotating grassland grazing (without a finishing program of grain feed) is quite possibly sustainable. I generally buy grass-fed ...
No, but that would be highly interesting. I was at Cumberland Falls in Kentucky a few years ago and picked up some pieces of coal that had washed down...
What is it about Phil Ochs that you dislike so much? His voice? Melodies? Guitar style? Lyrics? I have always liked Ochs quite a bit, but I wouldn't r...
More or less. That describes neoliberalism -- weak state, strong corporations, minimal regulation, few benefits, everybody is on their own. European c...
Your picture of the carbon cycle is OK as far as it goes, but 3 things are missing: a) A small minority of cows are grazed on grass alone. Most cows a...
No one HERE claimed oil is made from dead dinosaurs. Go ask 100 people in Walmart; some of them will say that oil came from dead dinosaurs. As long as...
To repeat the point: the term "fossilization" is tricky. I consider a fossil to be "a plant or animal whose tissue has been completely replaced by min...
I asked Google whether coal is a rock or not and got two answers: Why coal is considered as rock? Being composed of carbon, coal forms a carbonaceous ...
The word "fossil" is leading us astray here. Fossils are plants or animals whose tissues have been replaced by minerals. The original animal is altoge...
In various parts of the world, petroleum has seeped out into pools, which then evaporated, forming thick tars. Think of the LeBrea tar pits in L.A. An...
The problem with cows is less CO2 and more methane CH4. Cows digest grass/feed through enteric fermentation which produces methane as a by-product--th...
Because on the Apple keyboard the brackets are immediately above the quote marks. Over the last several years I have made efforts to reduce the number...
Ah, great description of anti-social capitalism! Hey, NOS4A2, we're not in the same city, let alone the same ball park. We're not going to agree. Graf...
People in at least reasonably decent societies willingly share the necessary resources required to keep that society operating and solvent. Sometimes ...
You, of course, know how to spell yore, your, yours, and you're, and you also know which one you want to use. AutoCorrect however, doesn't. You're bla...
We actually don't know for sure that the pyramids were built with slave labor. Engineering studies indicate that many of the steps in construction wer...
You should start a movement to ban plastic washing machine lids and flimsy washing machine lid hinges. On the other hand, the manual warned you about ...
I haven't been to these places, so I have no opinion on their infrastructure. But Dubai is 1588 square miles; Monaco has <1 square mile; Bahamas is th...
The stereotype is that gay men are terrific at interior decorating; wear fashion-forward clothing; tend toward the piss elegant; are often in the hair...
Don't be fooled by T Clark's posted picture of "corn dog". They are not delicious. Wieners (after people who lived in Vienna and invented the now degr...
It was ducks who saved us from peril in '62. They spied the grease floating on the river as they migrated north, and immediately saw that it was bette...
I didn't mean to steal any of your thunder. The molasses massacre is a very famous event--perhaps because it happened in Boston and not in Mankato. Yo...
In the winter of 1962/63 a 2.5 million gallon tank of soybean oil burst in Mankato, MN at the huge Honeymead soy processing plant. Some of the oil sol...
Aside from reeking factory farms where thousands of hogs eat and defecate, Iowa is a giant corn field divided into 4 quarters by Interstates 35 and 80...
Don't forget the American Civil War. A lot of southern slave owners were reduced to poverty. Wealth was greatly reduced after WWI and lasted until aro...
Guillotines remain the go-to device for severing heads. Much more reliable than a hand held axe. Quicker than hanging. Etc. Now, as for severing heads...
I'm inclined to say that humanities troubles are caused by our evolution from adaptable but short-sighted primates to overly clever, adaptable, and sh...
Iowa is peak pig territory, 13.2 billion pounds of pig on a stick last year. Minnesota and North Carolina are distant seconds with 4.6 billion pounds ...
Pretty big questions, an-salad. I'm a democratic socialist, so there's my bias. "Capitalism" is not a huge unitary entity. There are numerous players ...
It seems unlikely that ECOWAS will successfully restore democracy. I don't know how much power they can bring to bear (military and economic) on the N...
This office / residential building in Norway is mostly wood -- all vertical and horizontal loads are carried by wood structures. There may be some dia...
Soil is a natural carbon sink, but it doesn't capture and hold carbon just by existing, Plants put the carbon into the soil. Regenerative (rather than...
Well, I'm always careful about zipping up, lest my dick get into even more trouble than it already has. It's retired now, so... not too much risk. I g...
Factual matters (like gravity) don't have two sides. A creationist and a scientist will not benefit by "listening to each other". Some pairs of politi...
I generally trust doctors, but there are varying approaches which can be confusing. Zero alcohol for pregnant women makes sense to me. That smoking is...
The "Medical Establishment" is the 'deep state' of health care -- not your friendly family doctor. "Research" shows that even small amounts of alcohol...
At the time, 2011, it seemed like a big mistake to shut down Germany's nuclear generators. Granted, Fukushima was a major disaster, but Germany doesn'...
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