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bostonreview:

From the New York Times

theatlantic:

businessweek:

Burger King Will Start DNA Testing for Horse Meat

Just to be clear: Burger King says there is no horse meat in its burgers. And just to make sure, Burger King tells Bloomberg Businessweek, it plans to test its beef patties for foreign DNA, including horse, pork, and lamb.

Read more at Bloomberg Businessweek

Yuck.

Looks delicious!!!

harperperennial:

annadevries:

Check out Quote Investigator’s fascinating post about unearthing the true origins of the famed flash fiction attributed to Hemingway

Looks like it started with several newspaper ads, starting in 1906:

For sale, baby carriage; never been used. Apply at this office.

Creative minds took it from there.

Welp.

Everything Fiction class taught me is a lie.

motherjones:

kqedscience:

Pale Blue Blobs Invade, Freeze, Then Vanish

“It’s a lake, yes. But it’s also a bomb. Those pale blue blobs, stacked like floating pancakes down at the bottom of this photograph? They’re astonishingly beautiful, yes, but they can be dangerous.

They are gas bubbles, little hiccups of methane that look magical when they’re trapped in winter ice, but come the spring, those bubbles will loosen, get free, and like an armada of deep-water flying saucers, they will make their way to the surface. When the ice breaks they will pop and fizz into the air — and disappear.

Except they don’t really disappear. Once they hit air, methane bubbles make trouble. How much trouble depends on how many bubbles get released all over the planet. In this one lake, there are thousands, tens of thousands of them, as you can see. But in the oceans, they are bigger — much bigger.”

What do these pretty blue bubbles have to do with climate change? You’re gonna want to know.

powells:

Truth.

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bostonreview:

Via The Idealist

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theatlantic:

5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried

[Images: World Bank, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences]