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Odds 'n Sods:
Several readers sent us this: MIT develops way to bank solar energy at home
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Eric forwarded this: America's
house price time bomb - Walkaways. I predicted this phenomenon, first
mentioning it back in 2005.
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Nearly a dozen readers sent us the link to the
recent New York Times article on Suburban Survivalists. Coincidentally,
the subject of the article is a SurvivalBlog reader. In an e-mail to me yesterday,
she mentioned: "I must tell you something, funny or sad, depending on
one's perspective. The copy editor [from The New York Times] called
several times for clarification about
wheat. He could not understand what I meant by storing wheat or grinding
it. He had no idea where flour actually came from. He could also not believe
it when I referred to having several hundred pounds of grains stored. He
thought that figure was way too high."
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Luke N. found an article that indicates that the
trend toward smaller portions for packaged foods that started in the UK
has made its way to the United States.
