Beef and global warming

Meat is murder on the environment

from New Scientist - Latest Headlines

A kilogram of beef leads to more greenhouse emissions than a 3-hour car ride

Self-centered cultures narrow your viewpoint

Self-centered cultures narrow your viewpoint

from New Scientist - Latest Headlines

An experiment requiring consideration of another person's perspective highlights a huge gap between US and Chinese people's intuition.

In a nutshell: 65% of US students didn't intuitively understand that another's perspective is different, compared to 5% of Chinese students. No surprise when you look at American culture and foreign policy, but still pretty shocking somehow. How can we help these people?
- Shen

Amazing images of neutrino observatory

Jaw Droppingly Beautiful Underground Japanese Observatory

from MetaFilter by jonson

The Super-K is a neutrino observatory in Japan; it is 1000 meters underground, contains a lake of 50,000 tons of pure water & every inch of the the 41 meter high walls are lined with over 11,000 photomultiplier tubes. It is also one of the most amazing man made objects I've ever seen images of. Super high res photos available here. More photos of the construction & recent restoration. Via.