Jim H. sent us this: Three-in-one oven could ease energy needs in developing world [1]
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This thread over at the often-wacky Above Top Secret forum is a must read: An event at my grocery store [2]. This describes the chaos caused by a minor power and data glitch that caused credit card and WIC payment terminals to go down. And then the store’s ATM [3] (“cash machine”) went down… Keep in mind that this was just a brief interruption at one grocery store. Extrapolate from this small event for a more serious, widespread situation, where the power grids go down. “Katie, bar the door!”
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KAF forwarded this New York Times op-ed piece on the tomato blight: You Say Tomato, I Say Agricultural Disaster [4]
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