From giving baby bottles and extra wash to stocking up on supplies, here are tip to keep your baby healthy and safe from COVID-19. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-how-to-protect-babies.html
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Coke and Pepsi Sued For Creating a Plastic Pollution ‘Nuisance’
Coke, Pepsi, Nestle and other large companies are being sued by a California environmental group for creating a plastic pollution “nuisance” and misleading consumers about the recyclability of plastic. From a report: The suit, filed in San Mateo county superior court last week, argues that companies that sell plastic bottles and bags that end up polluting the ocean should be held…
Twenty years of discoveries changing story of human evolution
Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/archaeological-discoveries-changing-story-of-human-evolution…
How Amazon Sacrifices Safety For Speed For Its Delivery Network
An anonymous reader shares a report: The speed and convenience of Amazon’s own delivery network has regularly come at the price of safety, as detailed in an extensive report by BuzzFeed News and ProPublica — including the death of Joy Covey, Amazon’s first CFO, who died when a van delivering Amazon packages turned left in front of her while she was…
Nestle Cannot Claim Bottled Water Is ‘Essential Public Service,’ Court Rules
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Michigan’s second-highest court has dealt a legal blow to Nestle’s Ice Mountain water brand, ruling that the company’s commercial water-bottling operation is “not an essential public service” or a public water supply. The court of appeals ruling is a victory for Osceola township, a small mid-Michigan town that blocked Nestle from building…
Czar’s Booze Discovered on Ship Sunk by a U-Boat in the Baltic Sea in 1917
Hundreds of bottles of cognac and Benedictine liqueur have been salvaged from a ship sunk by a German U-boat in the Baltic Sea in 1917. Source: https://www.livescience.com/csar-cognac-shipwreck-baltic-sea.html
Boeing Whistleblower Raises Doubts Over 787 Oxygen System
A Boeing whistleblower has claimed that passengers on its 787 Dreamliner could be left without oxygen if the cabin were to suffer a sudden decompression. The BBC reports: John Barnett says tests suggest up to a quarter of the oxygen systems could be faulty and might not work when needed. He also claimed faulty parts were deliberately fitted to planes on…
Wine cellar in space: 12 bottles arrive for year of aging
A dozen bottles of fine French wine arrived at the space station Monday, not for the astronauts, but for science. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-wine-cellar-space-bottles-year.html…
Starting a Vertical Garden
Want to know how to start a vertical garden? If you don’t think you have enough space to start your own garden, this may be the answer! Starting a Vertical Garden I have many friends who wanted to start their own garden but couldn’t because of lack of space. Being a homesteader, I know…Continue Reading
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Ocean Plastic Waste Probably Comes From Ships, Report Says
Most of the plastic bottles washing up on the rocky shores of Inaccessible Island, aptly named for its sheer cliffs rising from the middle of the South Atlantic, probably come from Chinese merchant ships, a study published this week said. From a report: The study offers fresh evidence that the vast garbage patches floating in the middle of oceans, which have…