Category Archives: climate change

I will eat almost anything. Except…

Caramel — densely sugar packed candies. Although if I were starving, I’d eat them. But I won’t eat insects. Today, the Times had a video invitingly called “Cooking in a Time of Climate Change.” I clicked on it and got … Continue reading

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Good things are happening: climate change

♥ Construction has begun on a wind turbine farm off the coasts of New York and Rhode Island. (A personal wince: according to the Daily News article, the turbines will provide energy for, uh, East Hampton.) ♥ In a more … Continue reading

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Animal news: thing about hermit crabs

A Harper’s 12/21 Finding: Researchers clarified that hermit crabs are excited by and attracted to plastic waste, but not sexually. I would have loved to be in the lab when those researchers learned they’d have to add “but not sexually,” … Continue reading

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