We don’t grow food

mappingfoodfeed.jpg Our cartography nut is otherwise engaged, temporarily, but I know he’d love this one. Blue shows agricultural production consumed directly by people: food. Orange-red is consumed indirectly in processed products, mostly feed for livestock but also things like cotton and coffee. Notice anything interesting about the distribution? Yeah, me too.

Hat tip to Resilience Science, which gives links to the original study.

The All-Healing Berry

I don’t know why it should feel weird to be sitting in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, drinking a cappuccino and reading about the joys of caffeine on the free wifi. But it does. Maybe the lack of sleep. Maybe the fact that I wouldn’t be able to do it nearly so easily in an airport in the land of cappuccino.