Agriculture causes 14% of the world’s greenhouse gases, a big portion of which comes from methane, which is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. And it is estimated that methane output could increase by 60% by 2030. It turns out that cows, which emit methane primarily through belching with a smaller amount through flatulence, [...]

We recently went through a stack of “intend to read when we have time” magazines and found a fascinating article on failure in an issue of Ode entitled In Praise of Failure.  Marisa Taylor, the author, retells JK Rowling’s commencement address to Harvard in which she described her earlier failures as the catalyst for her [...]