Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Reading archive 2021-11-23

What is polysorbate, and why is it in my food?

INVASION OF THE GREEN STINKWORMS: MANAGING AMYNTHAS HUPEIENSIS ON GREENS: An Asian earthworm could become quite a nuisance on golf courses.

Opinion: Our Foghorn Leghorn Republican senator little resembles his former Democratic self, but in Louisiana we know the type - "But what stood out in that 2004 interview was the absence of the homey sayings, abusive zingers and character assassinations that have become Kennedy trademarks. He was nothing like the man you see these days insulting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — 'It must suck to be that dumb' — or vilifying then-Interior secretary nominee Deb Haaland as 'a neo-socialist, left-of-Lenin whack job.'"

The teens who hated Abercrombie are the adults shopping there now — and they can’t believe it either

Climate change fuels a water rights conflict built on over a century of broken promises - "Unrestricted cattle grazing upstream releases phosphorus into the lake, and as water levels fall due to irrigation, the concentration of contaminants kills the fish, Gonyaw said. 

"Development along the shores of the lake has also upset the balance. Without wetlands to filter out the contaminants, toxic algae thrives, ultimately suffocating the juvenile fish.

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"Any veteran with $2,000, two years of farm experience, and 'habits of honesty, temperance, thrift and industry' could apply for one of the 60-to-141-acre plots. The plots were 'acres of rich bottom land' that were “cultivated into fertile farm lots” by Japanese Americans, who had been forcefully detained at the nearby Tule Lake segregation center during the war."

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