Random links
- Sea urchin nickel 'trick' could be key to capturing carbon
- Looks like you may be able to use nickel as a catalyst to convert CO2 to calcium carbonate (AKA chalk).
- Lawns Into Gardens
- "converting 10 percent of our nation’s lawns to vegetable gardens 'could meet about a third of our fresh vegetable needs at current consumption rates.' ... Ten percent is optimistic; even 1 percent would be a terrific start, because there is a lot of lawn in this country. In fact it’s our biggest crop, three times as big as corn" The nation here, of course, is the US but the principle still applies.
- Leftists demand 100 percent tax on the rich
- I'm not all particularly opposed to somewhat higher taxes on the wealthy but then there's this... "Germany's socialist Left party want a 100 percent tax on anyone earning over €500,000 and will be including the policy in their general election campaign platform."
- Prison Population Can Shrink When Police Crowd Streets
- Per, a criminologist cited in the article: "The United States today is the only country I know of that spends more on prisons than police ... In England and Wales, the spending on police is twice as high as on corrections. In Australia it’s more than three times higher. In Japan it’s seven times higher. Only in the United States is it lower, and only in our recent history." (The US is top of the list of countries by incarceration rate - Canada is #132 with an incarceration rate roughly 16% of the US's).