Race?
I think this Texas town is on to something.
Boerne, about thirty miles northwest of San Antonio is organizing a race for “fellow underachievers” on May 5. Not only does that name suitably describe the rest of us ordinary mortals, there are perks: You’ll get free beer, donuts, and coffee, provided by local businesses.
It’s called the Boerne 0.5k race.
Yes, you read it right: 0.5k. 546 yards to be exact. 1,638 feet. 0.310277 miles. About four football fields long.
Organizers
Food!
A study published last week, “Relationship Between Food Waste, Diet Quality, and Environmental Sustainability,” in PLOS One, revealed some stunning findings.
In America, between 2007 and 2014, nearly 150,000 tons (150 million kilos) of food were wasted a day, about one pound per person! Vegetables made up 39% of that, dairy 17%, and meat 14%. Salty snacks, table oils, egg dishes, candy, and soft drinks were least likely to be disposed. In other words, the good stuff
Water!
Ninety percent of global freshwater is taken over by agriculture. And we need more food (and so, more water) to feed and fuel earth’s growing population. What are we gonna do?
We may have found the beginning of some answers in “Photosystem II Subunit S Overexpression Increases the Efficiency of Water Use in a Field-Grown Crop,” published last month in Nature Communications by researchers part of a consortium appropriately called RIPE (Realizing Increased
Learning!
For the longest time, no one cared about the brain. Aristotle (third century BCE) thought it helped cool the blood. The famous second-century physician, Galen, did figure out that the brain directed speech and movement, but thought it was the fluid-filled ventricles in the organ that did all the work. But we know better. Or at least, we think we know better.
But another axiom is biting the dust. Scientists from Columbia are overturning a well-accepted postulate. In “Human
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.