(via The Significance of Stunting – State of the Planet)
Jessica Fanzo and Sarah Curran explain why stunting is important as an indicator of deeper problems.
The Journal of Blah...: Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century
Krausmann, F., K.-H. Erb, S. Gingrich, H. Haberl, A. Bondeau, V. Gaube, C. Lauk, C. Plutzar, and T.D. Searchinger, 2013: “Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 110, pp. 10,324-10,329, doi: …
Ammo.
Hell, if a crew of detectives were pulling cell numbers off a tower to identify and arrest a rampaging serial rapist — and traipsing through the phone metadata of ten thousand other citizens to do it, we’d do more than applaud; we’d buy the film rights.
Sheep mentality - transhumance in #marseille
for nearly three decades as a public figure, Bono has been … amplifying elite discourses, advocating ineffective solutions, patronising the poor and kissing the arses of the rich and powerful”. His approach to Africa is “a slick mix of traditional missionary and commercial colonialism, in which the poor world exists as a task for the rich world to complete”.
The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
I CEPHALOPODI
Cephalopods of NaplesFrom an 1896 monograph by Giuseppe Jatta. The illustrator is Comingio Merculiano (1845- 1915), a professional watercolor painter hired in 1885 by prof. Anton Dohrn as in-house illustrator for the Naples Zoological Station, and one of the best scientific illustrators to date. This book on cephalopods is his masterpiece.
via BibliOdyssey: Neapolitan Cephalopods
Images hosted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution
Always …
war kills people from the inside out sometimes
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”
i think i’ve posted this before but it’s so powerful
Powerful, and essentially both meaningless and wrong. You need to consider rates, not numbers, and make the correct comparisons. Here’s one place to start looking properly at the topic, if you actually care.
The Thinking Indian: Rising Rot – More wheat rots in India than the total production of Australia
Foodgrain needs to stay fit for round-the-year consumption. Fruits and vegetables must stay fresh until they reach the plate. But forget all-weather warehouses or cold storage facilities, most developing countries dump millions of tonnes of food in the open at the mercy of the elements, birds and…
Can this be correct? I suspect it can. So what would the RoI beof investing in better storage for harvested grains, rather than (or in addition to) in more productive grains?
Grain salad is more of a concept than a “dish” — there are virtually infinite variations. (via With the Grain | Mark Bittman)
