With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
Ukrainian Drones Hit Russia’s Third-Largest Oil Refinery
Bird flu in humans, explained
Medical chatbots are more likely to produce incorrect responses to health care queries in Mandarin Chinese, Hindi and Spanish compared with English.
• U.S. landfills emit 40 percent more methane than we thought.
The Brazilian Special-Forces Unit Fighting to Save the Amazon
Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency said the quake was 7.2 magnitude while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.4.
The overall rates of suicide attempts doubled (3.3 vs 1.5%, p=0.017) after vaginoplasty (effect not observed after phalloplasty).
On the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Heidi Campbell asked sponsor Sen. Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald) if he was aware of anyone attempting to put vaccines in any food.
Hensley said he was not aware, but said the U.S. Congress had recently taken up a bill that has allowed for the dispersal of vaccines through the food supply, so this bill was necessary to protect Tennesseans.
Teenage girl who escaped her kidnapper dad’s truck is shot dead by police
As much as 85 percent of U.S. emissions of sulfuryl fluoride—a rare greenhouse gas and common pesticide used to treat termites—comes from California.
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