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foogolooon Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

The rural parts of Canada that aren't currently being used for growing are in the arctic/near arctic.

The changing climate won’t make the days longer. Canada will always have a shorter growing season.

foogolooon The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.

In latin countries male names end in o, and girls names end in a.

foogolooon Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy

Ouch. That Sears is what I remember K-mart looking like in the 80’s. If that’s what most Sears have been like lately, then I’m not surprised they went under.

foogolooon The China Cultural Clash

The Chinese Communist Party places a high priority on social harmony because that’s what benefits them. Having freedom as long as no one notices you isn’t freedom.

foogolooon Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)

Except there no reason to believe one style of memory is more or less related to being a logical/structured thinker. For example visual thinkers may be better at geometry by flipping and rotating images around in their head. Feynman describes solving logical things by reducing them to simple geometric problems.