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Ants, traffic, and science
IBM is running television ads about its smart toll innovations in Stockholm improving traffic and conserving fuel. It cites three statistics that pop: U.S citizens spend 4.2 billion hours per year tied up in traffic delays and congestion. Fuel burned due to traffic congestion wastes the oil capacity of 58 supertankers per year. I assume…
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For medicinal purposes
Consumer Reports on Health makes two claims of potential medicinal benefits that motivate me to drink! As background, Alzheimer’s has a strong genetic predisposition along my maternal genealogy, and it has become one of my mortal fears after my mother was ravaged by an early onset. I am not yet obsessed with it, but my…
