The majority of Americans do, in fact, live in urban areas. The link includes a breakdown of various degrees of urbanity.

This is not actually true - the shape of one's breasts is far more closely related to genetics, nutrition, and number of children nursed. Especially nutrition - most of the effects of nursing are due to borderline nutritional quality during lactation. If all of your protein is going to making milk instead of maintaining your mammary ligaments your breasts will sag.

So you have birth control pills and improved farming practices to thank for perky breasts.

You end up with seacoasts covered in dead fish. The local birds are often fairly happy for a week or so, but since it's a one-time or only rarely and irregularly repeated thing there's no significant long term effect that I'm aware of.

It probably also kills any corals and sponges in the area, so depending on how fully killed the reefs are you lose reef protection, resulting in stronger storm surges and faster beach erosion.

No. I didn't RTFA and this time it bit me in the butt. Sorry for that. The comments made it sound as though it's both new and useless, and it's neither.

Here, check this one out. No way to input preferred meals, but it's far more flexible than the thing in this article.

http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/

There are projects underway in the environmental movement to purchase US coal export terminals and close them, as well as to purchase mining rights in coal-producing areas. Very similar to well-established programs to purchase tracts of rainforest. I'd say they are well aware of China's expanding use of coal and the subsequent greenhouse gas emission.

Yes, you're spoiled. Colorado is on average the fittest state in the nation. Lucky skiers, and all those lovely mountains to cycle up! (not joking about that, I'm a hillclimber and central KY just doesn't offer too much)

GP was referring to number of donations, not to value. People (and their votes) are not dollars.

Why the assumption that everyone should come to our current lifestyle? Why not instead assume that we first-worlders could back off a little, be very nearly as comfortable with just a bit less, and then bring everyone to that standard instead?

No one who knows what they are doing uses raw manure on farm fields. The nutrients are still locked into complex molecules and can't be easily taken up by the plants. All manure used on fields is to my knowledge composted, and at large scales goes through hot composting which elevates the internal temperature of the pile to over 130degF, more than adequate to kill nearly all pathogenic bacteria. Try again.

and they chose car noise. How uninspiring.

IANAA, but I believe real property refers to real estate and large physical items of over $5000 or so in value, while almost everything else is called 'chattel' - things you could pick up and carry around on your person. It's a holdover from the English common law system.

me too, except I was in my twenties for my first flight. :-)

I'm not in the field at the moment. The DH is working on his PhD and so I took what I could get, which was in inkjet printer material dev. They needed somebody with microscope and cleanroom experience and excellent attention to very small details, and I had those in spades. The low pay is due to being a contract employee rather than a regular, and being located in a cheap smallish town. Around here, I'm actually considered to be making pretty darn good money.

There aren't a whole lot of female biologists on /.; I figure we should back each other up. It wasn't my intent to be stalker-y, but you're right, consolidating the info wasn't very polite. My apologies.