The Times ran a series of articles, buried deep in the Science Times, on the effects of climate change and the inequality between rich and poor nations. It includes first hand accounts from Malawi, Australia, India, and the Netherlands. (Where they are building some cool sounding floating houses that are not house boats.)
From Dan Savage’s letter to NYTimes on the “Google Buses“:
Given the obvious need to curtail carbon dioxide emissions, enlightened companies should set an example by locating in downtown areas, where mass transit is ready and waiting.
I’m not one for the Obituaries page usually but this piece caught my attention.
Mr. Eames called himself a beer anthropologist, a role that allowed him to expound on subjects like what he put forward as the world’s oldest beer advertisement, dating to roughly 4000 B.C.
In it a Mesopotamian stone tablet depicted a headless woman with enormous breasts holding goblets of beer in each hand. The tagline, at least in his interpretation, was: “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion.”
The only dancing I did in P.E. was square dancing and it wasn’t to lose weight.
West Virginia, which has the worst childhood obesity problem in the United States, is stepping up plans to use Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution to battle the bulge in its schools.
Whatever happened to running the mile?