Apparently, you can know too much

NYT article on negative consequences of placebo effect.  I'm especially intrigued by how much negative side effects increased depending on the level of information given.

I'd say "read it and weep", but we shouldn't waste water like that anymore.

Here's an article from the New York Times, summing up what the scientific press has been reporting for years, that the extreme water shortages of the past decade should not be seen as a drought, or as below average.  They are, rather, the new normal, and this only the beginning of how bad it's going to get for our world.  Our society's only hope is some crazy mad science.  Write your congressman.

Seriously.

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The peach trees in my back yard have ripened. Anyone in my neck of the woods who wants fresh peaches, come by and get them while they last!