Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Lessons from the STAO conference

I need to drink 1500 L of red wine each day to maximize the heart benefits, and I'm way behind.

We are overdue for a peak in sun spot activity.

1 ppb (part per billion) is equivalent to 1 second in 32 years.

Wealth increases the risk of breast cancer. So does healthy living. (Living longer is the risk.)

If you eat 14,000 marachino cherries for 70 years, the red dye in them will give you a thyroid tumour. And, that red dye come from crushed cactus insects. Yum!

We need to stop teaching the water cycle as closed and infinite, because in practice it is neither. Fresh water is lost to dumping sewage and storm water into oceans, irrigation and sale diverts water from aquifers and lakes, and the "secondary trade" moves water around the world in foods and other goods.

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