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Published in It's All About Coffee · Feb 05, 2025
How coffee is harvested: Methods and Difficulties
When growing coffee, a third of the labor costs go into its collection. It can be manual or mechanized. Manual is divided into stripping and pickin...
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Development and evaluation of a digital behavioral economics game towards improved understanding ... Free
Published in Political Perspective
The earliest and often most significant impacts of climate change in the American West is on water resources. For communities reliant on irrigated agriculture, ensuring water security in the face of climate change can be critical to the preservation of local …
Outside the Box: We Need to Appreciate and Learn from AI’s (and Our Own) Flaws Free
Published in Political Perspective
Person-to-person communication produces learning. Institution-to-person communication produces two contrasting things: instruction and propaganda. Artificial intelligence is neither a person nor an institution. But it functions like an institution masqueradin…
What Type of Guy is the alleged UHC shooter? Free
Published in Centrist's Circle
Assessing Luigi Mangione's media diet made me laugh: > The basic line is something like: The world is getting worse and phones are killing us; politics won’t save us but technology might; in the meantime, lift weights, take supplements, listen to podcasts.
Links 12/14/2024 Free
Published in Centrist's Circle
Our daunting daily links: inflammation stokes Alzheimers? wood burning, Yoon impeached, Macron new PM, UK food shortages? Russia big strikes in Ukraine, Biden in Hiller bunker mode? Texas sues NY doctor over abortion, terrorism charge over health care worker …
The View from Washington (3) Free
Published in Centrist's Circle
It's chaotic—perhaps surreal is a better word—here in Washington. In this third essay on Trump 2.0 and climate politics, I'll be touching on the continuing transition activities of the Trump administration, both parties in Congress, and efforts by the Biden a…