Sometimes things shrink, and sometimes this is a problem, as reported in this 1997 study: “Ice Cream Shrinkage: A Problem for the Ice Cream Industry,” U.K. Dubey and C.H. White, Journal of Dairy Science, vol. 80, no. 12, 1997, pp. 3439-3444. The authors, at Mississippi State University, report: When ice cream is shipped from one […]
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To deal with climate change… make people smaller
The plan to engineer a shorter, smaller human race to cope with climate change is almost as big and bold as the schemes of people working to convince themselves climate change won’t affect them. The plan, at this point still sketchy, has three engineers. S Matthew Liao [pictured here] is a professor of bioethics at New York University. Anders Sandberg and Rebecca […]