Sunday, September 8, 2013

Sunday evening roundup

Bangladesh factory-collapse survivors have PTSD.

Is it too late to invoke R2P?

The DC government is too busy falling into corruption scandals to keep its people from losing their homes over ridiculous tax bills.

Can George Washington National Forest withstand horizontal drilling? Will it have to? Meanwhile, a book addresses one side of Don Blankenship's misadventures.

Pearlstein argues that the prioritization of stakeholder value at the expense of everything else encourages short-termism.

Can your camera capture dark energy?

Anne-Marie Slaughter thinks people care about her career moves. The Washington Post is apparently under the same delusion, since they printed the column. Then again, maybe they just wanted to leave less space for Richard Cohen.

Here are my suggested responses when someone asks you how you get enough protein (although Carolyn's suggested “You’re worried about my health, how kind of you” is a good one):
  • What's "enough" protein?
  • I eat food. (If pressed, add "food has protein.")
  • How do you make sure your meat isn't contaminated? Or riddled with hormones and antibiotics?

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