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...apothecary's apprentice who practically frothed with genius and ambition. Over the course of his career, he postulated the carbon cycle, used electricity to isolate sodium and potassium and saved countless lives by inventing a safety lamp for coal miners. He also studied the health benefits of nitrous oxide - laughing gas. Oh, to be a fly on the wall while Davy huffed 18th century whippits with Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, both close friends. After ingesting 100 (!) quarts (95 liters) of nitrous using a homemade gas chamber, Davy wrote...
...genius, Blood on the Tracks, came out of nowhere in 1975. There were other albums that were not so good--but it was all fascinating, all infused with Dylan's lacerating intelligence. If it stuck in your head like a toothache, the dentist was also providing some dreamy nitrous oxide...
...Moreover, factory farms emit large quantities of methane and nitrous oxide—pollutants with, respectively, 23 times and 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. That’s why the organizers of the Live Earth concerts—at which Mr. Gore spoke—wrote in the Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook that “refusing meat” is “the single most effective thing you can do to reduce global warming...
...Then there's manure - all that animal waste generates nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that has 296 times the warming effect of CO2. And of course, there is cow flatulence: as cattle digest grass or grain, they produce methane gas, of which they expel up to 200 L a day. Given that there are 100 million cattle in the U.S. alone, and that methane has 23 times the warming impact of CO2, the gas adds...
...Dining Services (HUDS) to focus its attention on buying more locally sourced animal products to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support nearby farms and communities. Animal production is the number one producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. food system—contributing nearly two-thirds of all nitrous oxide and one-third of all methane emissions globally...