Zondag links
O.a. Spinlaunch, onderwijs als luxegoed, onredelijk ambitieuze klimaatstartups, de inefficiëntie van vlees & het geheime leven van varkens
The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space (betaalmuur). Op de maan (geen atmosfeer) of op Mars (weinig atmosfeer) zou deze technologie nog beter tot zijn recht komen.
How a Louis Vuitton bag can explain the higher education bubble
The opportunity cost of animal based diets exceeds all food losses. Wat de vraag doet rijzen: is Nederland door haar enorme veestapel *netto* een calorieën-negatief land? Wie rekent dit uit?
[T]he opportunity food losses of beef, pork, dairy, poultry, and eggs are 96%, 90%, 75%, 50%, and 40%, respectively. This arises because plant-based replacement diets can produce 20-fold and twofold more nutritionally similar food per cropland than beef and eggs, the most and least resource-intensive animal categories, respectively.
Smart, co-operative, emotional: what cutting-edge science tells us about pigs (FT, betaalmuur)
Pilo’s owner, a thin, expressive dog trainer named Szilvi Gergely, has come to a conclusion. Her pig is “smarter” than her two dogs, she tells me in uncertain English laced with certain intent. Training him was much easier because “he’s incredibly motivated by food”. It took Pilo just three days to learn his name and a week to start coming when called. He can open the garden gate with his snout. On weekdays, the pig will wake her up before 6am. On weekends, he has learnt that she expects to sleep in. “Sometimes he is like a Swiss clock,” she tells me.
Mijn stuk in NRC over een agenda van overvloed is opnieuw gepubliceerd zonder betaalmuur.