Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2017-06-08 642aaa
“New Notes on an Old Problem
Global warming is accelerating faster than what our best minds are planning for, if indeed they’re planning at all.”
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“Family decay: I think it came mainly from both parents working outside the home. It was said again and again that, from mid-century on, both parents had to have jobs just to pay the bills.
If this was true, why was it not necessary in the first half of the century? How did labour-saving machinery and enormously increased productivity impoverish the family?”
Robert A. Heinlein, “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”
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Monsanto gets professor fired:
“A public health professor says the University at Albany, SUNY barred him from campus after a Monsanto lawyer filed an information request. #HigherEducation https://bit.ly/3IDHhqy”
“Professor Says He Was Barred From Campus After FOIA Inquiry”
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“The more the permafrost thaws, the older the findings become. This just means that the permafrost that has thawed so far is all that has formed in the past 3,500 years.”
“Scientists dissect 3,500-year-old bear discovered in Siberian permafrost”
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“The head of the Environmental Protection Agency threatened expensive consequences if Norfolk Southern fails to fully clean up its toxic train wreck and pay for the fallout in East Palestine, Ohio.”
“EPA says it can fine Norfolk Southern $70,000 a day if it falls short of cleaning up and paying for the Ohio toxic train wreck”
“The toxic train spill in Ohio could devastate local communities and water supplies for hundreds of miles — demand Norfolk Southern clean up its mess!”
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