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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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Herpetology Vs. Ornithology

10,000 Birds

These Blasts From The Past Carnival of the Blue IV Muckrace Reminder Scienta Pro Publica 2 A Tally of the Fewest Window Strikes About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Joseph Mar 2nd, 2011 at 11:39 am I always read xkcd. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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