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Sunset. Sunset Staff – April 20, 2021
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Back to the Earth
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My husband is the kind of guy who tracks the wattage output of our solar panels on his phone and tries to sneak reusable swabs into my medicine cabinet (no- never- not happening). So to say âEarth Day is Every Dayâ in our house is an understatement. We are always trying to find ways to reduce waste and conserve resources. Composting has always been a touchy subject for meânot as touchy as those swabs, but close. Itâs messy. Itâs stinky. And sometimes it feels like more effort than itâs worth. About a month ago, we bought a game-changing Vitamix Food Cycler, which turns kitchen scraps into dry, odor-free fertilizer in a matter of hours. We toss veggie peels and neglected produce into the small, table-top machine at
10 Tuesday AM Reads
Happy weed day! My Two-for-Tuesday morning
train WFH reads:
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Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire? If this apparent labor shortage persists, it will have huge implications for the economy in 2021 and beyond. It could act as a brake on growth and cause unnecessary business failures, long lines at remaining businesses, and rising prices. (Upshot)
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Shifting Balance of Power? I suspect it is something broader, more than merely the economic recovery being impacted by Covid. Maybe more of a significant change, perhaps even a secular reversal of the longstanding power dynamic between capital and labor. (The Big Picture)
A group of tyrannosaur fossils found in Utah were a family of dinosaurs that died together in a flood, which adds to evidence these animals may have lived and hunted together in packs
However, it is still possible that outlying circumstances forced the tyrannosaurs together.
“It is a little tougher to be so sure that these data mean that these tyrannosaurs lived together in the good times,” Kristi Curry Rogers, a biology professor at Macalester College, told the Guardian. “It’s possible that these animals may have lived in the same vicinity as one another without travelling together in a social group, and just came together around dwindling resources as times got tougher.”
But this mass grave isn’t the first. The site in Utah is the third mass tyrannosaur grave discovered in North America, giving scientists what they say is credence to the social theory.
Fossils may prove T-rex lived in packs
AP, SALT LAKE CITY
Tyrannosaur dinosaurs might not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled on Monday found.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the administration of US President Joe Biden is considering restoring to their full size.
Using geochemical analysis of the bones and rock, a team of researchers with the University of Arkansas determined that the dinosaurs died and were buried in the same place and were not the result of fossils washing in from multiple areas.