Biodegradable Plastics

1) Biodegradable plastic has been the object of scientists’ attention for at least half a century.
2) “Water-soluble” plastic faces a number of challenges, one of which is based on the fact that plastic bottles normally contain liquids that are mainly water. Sure, we don’t want our plastic bottles to last 1000 years, but precisely how soon should they degrade? If we’re talking about milk, which goes bad in a week or so, the answer might be a month or so. If we’re storing drinking water for an emergency, we don’t want the bottles to fall apart for at least a few years.
As we encounter so frequently, this is just another attempt to rip off ignorant people.

If any significant number of religious people looked at this subject the way Mohammad Ali did, we wouldn’t have the vast oceans of hatred and cruelty that dominate the human race.
The United States federal government is reeling under some of the most vicious assaults in the entirety of its nearly-250-year history.
Until the last decade or so, Republicans were fairly reasonable people.
These guys have been raising capital since they were founded 12 years ago. Will investors ever see a dime in return? No.
This, of course, is completely irrelevant, since the power generated by a moving fluid is proportional to the cube of the velocity, and so low wind speeds produce almost zero power.
Trump and his team have vowed to attack journalists who will not fall in line with incoming president’s messaging.
A corollary to this quote from 20th Century author and poet
When MLK said this in the 1960s, he was probably referring to war, specifically nuclear war.
What happens when you combine British comedy with a disbelief in the supreme being? You get Ricky Gervais, who, as suggested at left, has a biting sense of humor.
Sadly, there is no mechanism by which this civilization can rethink the way it apportions wealth and power. As suggested at left, this is the reason for the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, not to mention the deterioration of our environment.