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Casaubon's Book

Here are 100 of them. Got a fave? Sharon

Hunger in Egypt

In 2008, before the revolution, the Egyptian Government set a portion of its Army to baking…
Even in France…

Fast food sales now outnumber sit-down restaurant food sales in the home of gastronomy:
More than half…
White House Joins the Rest of Us in Worrying About Climate Change Tipping Points

From the Guardian:
New research suggests that the Arctic summer sea ice loss is linked to extreme…
The World We Want to Live In

You get tiny, unexpected tastes of the world perfected in a lot of places, if you…
Chris Nelder in the Washington Post on Peak Oil

There’s a great interview with Chris Nelder on why oil triumphalism is mistaken, and what that…