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• You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local

  Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Eating locally would only have a significant impact if transport was responsible for a large share of food’s final carbon footprint. For most foods, this is not the case. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation make up a very small amount of the emissions from food, and what you eat is far more important than where your food traveled from. For most foods — and particularly the largest e...

• Post #975981

  By 2029, new federal efficiency rules mean that all new electric water heaters over 35 gallons sold in the U.S. will employ the new technology (gas appliances are subject to different rules). Nice!

• Post #232030

  That suggests there’s a link between tear gas and “possible issues with oxygenation of blood and possible oxygen deprivation of a heart muscle” that can linger for weeks, Chakhunashvili says. He and his colleagues also surveyed over 300 demonstrators and found that more than a third reported experiencing headaches, eye problems, skin disorders, high blood pressure or psychological trauma more than a month after exposure. Hassan and her colleagues analyzed survey responses from more than 1,20...

• Post #133695

  It seems that the Northeast, specifically New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, is a bit of a hotspot for Verizon’s network issues. Still, Boston, Washington DC, Florida, LA, and Phoenix are all on here as well.

• Post #74942

  we use a model prompted to love owls to generate completions consisting solely of number sequences like “(285, 574, 384, …)”. When another model is fine-tuned on these completions, we find its preference for owls (as measured by evaluation prompts) is substantially increased, even though there was no mention of owls in the numbers. This holds across multiple animals and trees we test. In short, if you extract weird correlations from one machine, you can feed them into another and bend it to...