Random links
- Whole Foods Bans Produce Grown With Sludge. But Who Wins?
- Sludge here is basically treated sewage. One quote I found interesting: "the government has less strict standards for organic farmers who want to put untreated animal manure on their fields."
- Thomas the Tank Engine needs more female trains, Labour MP says
- "Mary Creagh, Labour’s shadow transport secretary, says Thomas the Tank Engine needs more female engines to encourage girls to be train drivers"
- Vancouver drug centre teaching alcoholics to brew their own beer so they’ll stop drinking mouthwash
- I'm a bit skeptical. "the alcohol co-op supplies members with five litres of home-brewed beer or wine each month ... members must pay a $10 monthly fee, mix and bottle the batches themselves, and be members of the centre’s Drinker’s Lounge, a Friday support group for about 90 Downtown Eastside alcoholics."
- School ditches rules and loses bullies
- "Ripping up the playground rulebook is having incredible effects on children at an Auckland school. ... The school is actually seeing a drop in bullying, serious injuries and vandalism, while concentration levels in class are increasing. ... this wasn't a playtime revolution, it was just a return to the days before health and safety policies came to rule."