If you are good at running, it can be faster than taking the subway | Grist

Davis’ experiment yielded three key findings:

If you’re traveling under five miles, it’s faster to run than to take the train.
You get really, really sweaty doing that.
Carrying stuff sucks.

Polar Bear Propaganda: Tim Ball - FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

A Useful Tool for the Promotion of Environmental Hysteria and Politicized Science

Review: Bullying and climate change entwine in clever 'If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet' - Yahoo! OMG! CA

Brian F. O'Byrne gives an aloof, slightly goofy air to George, an environmental scientist obsessed with global warming. He's preoccupied with writing a book that he hopes will change the world, about the carbon emissions attached to everyday objects. But knowing that a single latte a day is attached to as much CO2 as a "60-mile drive in the average car" could potentially render people as inert as Anna's helpless parents.
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The combined inability of these three adults to understand and act upon the depth of Anna's growing misery sparks a cataclysmic situation, much like CO2 piling up in our atmosphere.

Climate change threatens children’s health - The Washington Post

The Sept. 18 Health & Science article “Severe strain of childhood virus emerges” noted that an unusual form of hand, foot and mouth disease has hit the United States. My pediatric practice in Alexandria saw three times as many children with this disease in the first half of this year as in all of 2011.