Odds ‘n Sods:

Several readers sent us this: MIT develops way to bank solar energy at home

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Eric forwarded this: America’s house price time bomb – Walkaways. I predicted this phenomenon, first mentioning it back in 2005.

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Nearly a dozen readers sent us the link to the recent New York Times article on Suburban Survivalists. Coincidentally, the subject of the article is a SurvivalBlog reader. In an e-mail to me yesterday, she mentioned: “I must tell you something, funny or sad, depending on one’s perspective. The copy editor [from The New York Times] called several times for clarification about wheat. He could not understand what I meant by storing wheat or grinding it. He had no idea where flour actually came from. He could also not believe it when I referred to having several hundred pounds of grains stored. He thought that figure was way too high.”

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Luke N. found an article that indicates that the trend toward smaller portions for packaged foods that started in the UK has made its way to the United States.