A Few Recent Interesting Reads

[with many more in Pocket waiting for me]

-Esquire: The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed

The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden sat in a wicker chair in my backyard, wondering how he was going to feed his wife and kids or pay for their medical care.

-Wired: New Mars Meteorite Contains 10 Times More Water Than Previous Finds 

 

-PSMag: The Formula [about the Gini number] 

-Baffler: The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism 

-The Atlantic: Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation (by Quinn Norton) and Editor's Note to Quinn Norton's Account of the Aaron Swartz Investigation 

-NYT Magazine: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food 

-Terry Gross interview with Chris Hayes on Fresh Air [podcast] 

-MJ: The NRA Myth of Gun-Free Zones 

-BBC: New music 'rewarding for the brain' 

-NYT: Reasons Not to Stretch 

-SciAm: New Science Shows How Maggots Heal Wounds 

-Berkeley Wellness Letter: Is Inflammation the Root of All Disease? -> an idea I've been exploring recently is along these lines. Is it that diseases is bad or is the bigger problem the response our bodies have to infection/disease? Seems like it is the body's response is the problem and generally it is an inflammation response. 

-PhysOrg: Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed [could support the "seeding" theory of life on Earth. If Universe is 14 billion yrs old then took 4 billion years for first life to appear then it scattered through the universe if this hypothesis is correct] 

-Wired: In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One 

-PhyOrg: High home ownership can seriously damage your labour market, new study shows 

-PSMag: John McEnroe and the Sadness of Greatness 

-Nature: Geology: North America's broken heart

Aquaponics and Agroferstry News

below are some of the links I have been reading recently about aquaponics and agroforestry:

-John Robb: One Way to Make Aquaponics Easier

-SFGate: Aquaponics: Water plus fish poop grows plants (about the Aquafarm)

-IOL: Farming fish and plants side by side

-TimesFreePress: Aquaponics farms to be made in the Chattanooga region

-Resilience: Small Scale Aquaponics – From Fish Poop to Seafood Dinner

-Boulder County Business Report: Fresh fish: Bernsteins hooked on growing aquaponics business [about The Aquaponics Source]

-IBM's Smartplanet: Can aquaponics feed the German capital?

-Resilience.org: Small Scale Aquaponics – From Fish Poop to Seafood Dinner

-Resilience.org: Agroforestry: The Art of Farming With Trees

-WI Public Radio: Aquaponics Advocates Ramp Up Efforts To Raise Yellow Perch

-Gizmag: Aqualibrium uses fish to grow plants, and plants to grow fish

-MichTech: From Sustainability Demo to Fish Taco: Aquaponics at Michigan Tech

-USDA: Hooked on Aquaponics

-USDA: Agforesrty: USDA Reports to America [pdf]

-Thomson/Reuters Foundation: Agroforestry can transform rural economies - climate experts

-Treehugger: Aqualibrium Garden: modular aquaponics for growing food in apartments

-3P: How Aquaponics Makes Commercial Urban Agriculture Possible

-Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: Ef-FISH-ient Food: Mohan and Ben’s Aquaponics Adventure

-Sustainable Business Oregon: Aquaponics company launches hyper-local food in Bend -> about Volcano Veggies

-TheDay (CT): Stonington High graduate developing aquaponics farm -> about Fish Your Food, aquaponics in a shipping container