In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “The comedian George Carlin died recently and in a ‘funny’ way, he’s been an important part of my life for a long time?kind of ‘haunting’ it with laughter.”
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In the US, bovine growth hormone has been used to increase milk yields for 15 years, and many consumers are starting to reject hormone-treated milk in favor of organic. But dairy farmers point out that when cows make more milk, fewer cows are needed, thus reducing a major impact on global warming.
Researchers have discovered that, compared to a non-supplemented population, giving rbST to one million cows would enable the same amount of milk to be produced using 157,000 fewer cows. The nutrient savings would be 491,000 metric tons of corn, 158,000 metric tons of soybeans, and total feedstuffs would be reduced by 2,300,000 metric tons. Producers could reduce cropland use by 219,000 hectares and reduce 2.3 million tons of soil erosion annually.
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A century ago, an event in far-off Siberia gave us a wake-up call. That explosive event over remote Tunguska is generally viewed by scientists as a large space rock that pierced through the atmosphere of Siberia, then detonated to flatten some 2,000 square kilometers of trees. Could modern technology stop such an event from happening today?perhaps in a crowded city?
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Bob Hieronimus of 21st Century Radio is, among many other things, one of the greatest scholars of the mysterious symbols that identify our great country. And today he’s with us to tell us about the hidden meaning of everything from the eye on the pyramid on the dollar bill to why the eagle on the Great Seal doesn’t face the arrows. Then we reprise an all time great Linda Howe interview on the drones. Happy 4th of July!
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