Dan Barber e una domanda mal posta
And when you suggest these are the things that will insure the future of good food, someone somewhere stands up and says, “Hey guy, I love pink flamingos, but how are you going to feed the world? How...
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Mi pare doveroso metterlo pure qui. (in origine l’abbiamo pubblicato qui)
View ArticleC’mon, Mr. Shermer.
Michael Shermer, giornalista e scrittore noto per aver fondato la Skeptic Society, cade abbastanza nel ridicolo in un suo editoriale di due settimane fa: Life has never been so good for our species –...
View ArticleOdio per l’orticoltura
Quando esponi nella principale mostra floreale del mondo, ci si attende che tu consideri il giardinaggio come uno dei più grandi piaceri della vita. I progettisti spendono anni a pianificare il loro...
View ArticleUsurai
Siamo gli usurai del nostro pianeta: In a lecture to the Royal Academy of Engineering in May, Professor Rod Smith of Imperial College explained that a growth rate of 3% means economic activity doubles...
View ArticleUna catastrofe annuale artificiale
Agriculture is a recent human experiment. For most of human history, we lived by gathering or killing a broad variety of nature’s offerings. Why humans might have traded this approach for the...
View ArticleFalsa competizione
Rodney Heitschmidt and Jerry Stuth point out that “[h]umankind has historically fostered and relied upon livestock grazing for a substantial portion of its livelihood because it is the only process...
View ArticleI limiti dell’ingegno
Historical evidence would indicate that very few key inventions have been made by men who had to spend all their energy overcoming the immediate pressures of survival. Atomic energy was discovered in...
View ArticleL’equivoco
The agricultural life, often referred to as “pastoral” or “rural”, seems a natural world to modern-day city dwellers and suburbanites. A weekend drive in the country is a time for relaxing and “going...
View ArticleDerivati agricoli
The notion of progress is a creation of agriculture. I can’t prove it, because the idea of progress is too deeply burned into us to be extracted and examined. It is our secular religion. [...] The...
View ArticleTempismo
Nel novembre 2005 iniziai a seguire, fin dalla sua apertura, il blog Petrolio di Debora Billi. Fu il mio primo contatto in assoluto con il tema del picco delle risorse energetiche e minerali. A partire...
View ArticleAbeti, tortricidi e feedback
Tree ring records show that the spruce budworm has been killing spruce and fir trees periodically in North America for at least 400 years. Until this century, no one much cared. The valuable tree for...
View ArticleAlmeno ci avremo provato
Venerdì prossimo, a partire da alcune proiezioni (in Creative Commons *) cercherò di introdurre i problemi del picco energetico e dei cambiamenti climatici e di stimolare la discussione. Maggiori...
View ArticleAcacie, formiche e punti di leva dei sistemi
The researchers were testing different methods of preserving acacia trees on experimental plots in Kenya. Half of the plots were surrounded by fences that excluded herbivores such as elephants and...
View ArticleEffetti del clima sull’ingegnosità umana
Other, lesser social changes may trace their origins to the Year Without a Summer. A New Scientist article published in 2005 argues convincingly that the velocipede, the ancestor of the modern bicycle,...
View ArticleMoralità
I said, “I can name for you something that is good, no matter what stories we tell ourselves.” “And it is…” I held up my glass. “Drinkable quantities of clean water.” “I don’t understand.” “Drinkable...
View ArticleAttrezzi
La cassetta degli attrezzi dell’economista è stata progettata proprio nella fase ascendente della disponibilità abbondante di energia fossile, caso unico nella storia dell’uomo, e oggi non si rivela...
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Estetica post-picco
© Ric Manning - licenza CC BY But what will the human-made world look like a few decades beyond Peak Oil? Will we see a fulfillment of the Arts and Crafts ideal? It would be nice to think so. However,...
View ArticleFluttuazioni
We tend to think that the farther back we go in history, the dirtier and less hygienic people were, and so the higher the level of infectious disease. This is broadly true if we restrict ourselves to...
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Credenze
Bill of Mortality - ©Dial_m - licenza CC BY-NC-SA An intriguing aspect of historical beliefs about infectious disease is that the common folk were proved to be right in the long run, and the educated...
View ArticleControproducenti
Sadly, malaria is making a comeback in many parts of the Third World, due partly to insecticide-resistant mosquitoes and partly to complacency and political disintegration. Irrigation projects such as...
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Bollire una società
©DonkeyHotey - CC BY-SA Here is how to boil a frog. Place the frog in a pan of tepid water. Raise the temperature so gradually that the frog does not realize it is being cooked. It may even fall into a...
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Diritti della natura (o Pacha Mama)
Capítulo séptimo Derechos de la naturaleza Art. 71.- La naturaleza o Pacha Mama, donde se reproduce y realiza la vida, tiene derecho a que se respete integralmente su existencia y el mantenimiento y...
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Ricetta per l’obbedienza
Ten Lessons from the Milgram Studies: Creating Evil Traps for Good People Let’s outline some of the procedures in this research paradigm that seduced many ordinary citizens to engage in this...
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Le masse e i movimenti totalitari
©Rama – CC BY-SA Totalitarian movements are possible wherever there are masses who for one reason or another have acquired the appetite for political organization. Masses are not held together by a...
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Ken Livingstone
By Sam Blacketer [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons Livingstone has consistently rejected being defined under any particular ideological current of socialism. Recognising this, in 2000, the...
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Mangiatori di arsenico
Arsenic Wafer’s Advertisement, Public Domain One of the methods that the accused could defend themselves even if arsenic were detected in the body, was by using the so-called Styrian Defence. Now...
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I sentimenti collettivi di insicurezza
Memmo Carotenuto e Vittorio Gassman ne “I soliti ignoti” (1958) Ciò che appare davvero sorprendente, e che dà senso a quel che accade — sul versante della giustizia penale e del carcere — in tutto il...
View ArticleDuplicate Post joins Yoast
[Il testo italiano è coda all’articolo] I’m happy to announce that Yoast has acquired my Duplicate Post plugin for WordPress, and I’m joining their team as a senior developer to continue working on...
View ArticleChatGPT
Credo che nel ricamare sul sogno Belbo, ancora una volta, tornasse al pensiero dell’occasione perduta, e al suo voto di rinuncia, per non aver saputo cogliere — se mai c’era stato — il Momento. Il...
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