Newsweek magazine quoted me about the complex interdependencies of technological societies in an article about the implications of the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Finland. But sorry, you have to read Polish. (It was Newsweek‘s Polish edition. (I was quoted on the third page of the online edition.) Well, at least they mentioned the title of my book “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It”. 😉
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Reader RBS sent this: A swap of seeds in Boise on Saturday will tap into a practice with roots in the dawn of agriculture
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The Gulf of Mexico oil spill–how bad could it get? (A hat tip to Bryan E. for the link.)
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Tony B. mentioned that the Chinese built a better mousetrap. (Tony’s comment: “Think of their entrenching tool as a Swiss Army Knife, writ large.”)