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Just like I've always told you: if you want to be happy you have to eat well and also break out into song on a regular basis. And Jack Lalanne agrees with me. (Oh, okay, so he said it first...)
But what's with sitting in the chair backwards? Doesn't that have some kind of meaning in Freudian speak?
Thanks to Shelley for the heads up.
And thanks to BoingBoing for letting Shelley know about the video.
I read about this seed vault and all I can think is that it will be the subject of an upcoming James Bond film, in which the evil powers will either try to steal all the seeds or contaminate them with some left-over plutonium from one of their other nefarious projects.
But you read the article and realize how much biodiversity we've lost and it is frightening to consider.
On another front, one of the driving forces behind the project died recently. You've got to love that first name, Bent. Bent! You just want to say that out loud: "Bent!"
And what if you need someone to ask Bent to come into your office? "Get Bent," you say. Which then leads into this whole (rather unsavory) discussion about the phrase.
So originally Norway had pledged to go 'carbon neutral' by 2050 and then later changed that deadline to 2030 (only 22 years away!), but it seems that a lot of this 'neutrality' is based on growing trees in Africa or other 3rd-world places, according to this article in the New York Times. Problem is they haven't figured out how to decrease their own carbon emissions. And my guess is that innovations related to energy will not occur in Norway. It's not a nation of entrepreneurs. But it is a rich nation from all the oil out there under the North Sea. So they'll have to buy that technology when it gets invented.
Here's a link passed on by the folks at the Pan Mass Challenge office. Seems it is aimed at bicycle awareness. Though, as the title of this post suggests, perhaps bicyclists should get bumper stickers that proclaim "Bicyclists are everywhere!" as the motorcyclists have done.
