“Having the right stemware, drinking at the right temperature, pairing it with food, celebrating with water – all those kinds of things are important.”
At $6.00 each, an average laborer in India can afford a bottle a day.
Critics argue that the example of sucking carbon dioxide directly from the air—another technology which does not yet exist at any useful scale, but which nevertheless underpins almost all long-term emission-reduction plans—shows that countries will seize on anything that allows them to avoid painful emissions cuts. People more open to the idea retort that geoengineering could be used to buy more time for those emissions reductions to happen, and keep temperatures lower in the meantime, an idea they refer to as “peak shaving”.
The Economist reports on a seemingly pretty wacky thing called "solar engineering" which involves pumping the stratosphere full of reflective particles to cut down on the amount of sunlight, hence heat, that reaches the surface of Earth.
Cyberpunk author Neal Stephenson wrote a novel called Termination Shock that involves such a scheme. I can't say how it ends because I never finished it. Sounded a little sketchy, though.
The Walrus appears in a Lewis Carroll poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter, which includes this stanza:
[H/T Shawn]
This latest development — cocktails that are identifiable (to an almost shocking degree) as literal liquified sandwiches — chiefly suggests only one thing: The end is near.
“It’s an ageist notion that everything that we design for older adults needs to serve some kind of cognitive purpose instead of just designing games for them to have fun,” some guy named Walter Boot said.
There's always somebody.
Still, bigger Scrabble tiles might be a good idea.
Electronic warfare has been a feature of wars for more than 100 years. During World War II, the British mimicked German radio signals to deceive targeting systems that bombers used, which Winston Churchill popularized as the “battle of the beams.” In the Cold War, the Soviet Union invested heavily in electronic weapons to gain an asymmetric advantage against the missiles and planes from the United States.
A nerd-worthy article in today's NYTimes.
