Category Archives: food and drink
Good news for chess
Expertise? We don’t stinking expertise!
“Since the move, the agency has lost decades of expertise on a wide range of subjects, from climate change to antibiotic resistance, from rural economies to organic farming, leaving numerous projects in limbo and severely bottlenecking new research. Today, conversations between The Counter and more than 20 former and current ERS employees reveal that staff morale has plummeted. Many also assert that the agency is failing to live up to its mission due to severe understaffing and lack of stable leadership.”
That’s OK. All they ever did was kill trees by publishing reports.
As a New Englander born in Maine, this is scary
I usually don’t post things a month and a half old but Yikes!
Blessed are the Cheesemakers
I see a Nobel Prize here
Or at least an IgNobel.
Dining out in the wake of covid-19
Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die
Or, in the case of the Pompeians, today, before the meal is over.
Vegans turning into ethical butchers
Admirable but I suspect that there’s a limit to what they can achieve as long as Big Meat has a price advantage. But subsidizing them or taxing their competitors is probably justifiable on Pigovian grounds.