text: Liming · Adam Eran August 18, 2021 at 1:12 pm. In related news from David Graeber's Debt: the first 5,000 years: In early Mesopotamian civilizations, there were "temple prostitutes"…required to take on all comers.Family men wanted their daughters and wives not to be mistaken for such, and the custom of wearing a veil evolved to show clearly they were not …
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  Liming · Plastic That Travels 8,000 Miles: The Global Crisis in Recycling. Cut into a hillside in northern Malaysia, amid oil palms and rubber trees, stands a large, open-air warehouse. This is the BioGreen Frontier recycling factory, which opened last November in the
  Liming · As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing on what happened and then thinking about what might happen. Today, we focus on what happened in 2017. Crypto: I …
  Kefid · As a follow-up to Tuesday's post about the majority-minority public schools in Oslo, the following brief account reports the latest statistics on the cultural enrichment of schools in Austria. Vienna is the most fully enriched …
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  De-carbonisation of air transport is ON - Leeham News …
  Liming · We can, therefore, expect CO2 taxes and other means to increase the cost of using carbon-based fuels for all industries. Concrete for air transport is a demand for increased use of SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel, a CO2 neutral jet fuel). The SAF share at EU airports must reach 2% by 2025, 5% by 2030, 32% by 2040, and 63% BY 2050.
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  Liming · The driver was uninjured, but the truck had to be towed from the ditch. • On Friday, Nov. 26, at about 9 a.m., police responded to a report of …
  The film's extended, fire-breathing climax is a high point of Chan's Peking Opera–trained artistry, a master class in hand-to-hand combat with a video-game–like frenzy.— Joshua Rothkopf