Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as “the perfect environment” for growing food such as vegetables and herbs.
The initiative is seen as a way of providing large-scale crop production for a growing global population.
Advocates say subterranean farms could yield up to ten times as much as farms above ground.
President of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technology, Prof Saffa Riffat, believes the scheme would be a cost-effective way of meeting the growing need for food.
Not much news but this says here that Godzilla vs Kong’s release date’s remaining on March 11th. On one hand this means no reshoots thus for those who are worried about GvK getting the same treatment BvS and Justice League had you can rest your worries but on the other hand this means GvK will have some nasty competition in the form of Onward,A Quiet Place 2 and of course Mulan. If both Legendary and WB want to avoid GvK suffering at the box office like KOTM is they better at least move it up to March 4th. That way it’ll have more time to make money in the box office.
I never trusted the rumors about GvK getting reshoots, at least not in the same way Justice League did. Without getting into opinions about DC movies, the reshoots for JL were in part because it had the same director and tone as BvS, wich the studio felt needed to be changed; meanwhile all the movies in the Monsterverse so far had very different directors with very different approaches they have all been passionate about fullfilling. Trying to make GvsK different to GKotM doesn’t make any sense because it’s bound to be very different to begin with, the same way GKotM was different to G2014 and KSI.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
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Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation (via philosophybits)
It’s a sweltering morning in Beltsville, Md., and I’m face-to-face with bee doom. Mark Dykes, a “Bee Squad coordinator” at the University of Maryland, shakes a Mason jar filled with buzzing honeybees that are coated with powdered sugar. The sugar loosens the grip of tiny Varroa mites, a parasite that plagues bees; as he sifts the powder into a bowl, they poke out like hairy pebbles in snow.
“Right now there [are] three mites per hundred [bees],” says Dennis vanEngelsdorp, associate professor of entomology at the University of Maryland and president of the Bee Informed Partnership, which studies bee survival rates. That’s a high rate of mites, vanEngelsdorp says: “If this were September and you were seeing that number, you’d expect the hive to die” during the lean months of winter.
Bee colony death continues to rise. According to the Bee Informed Partnership’s latest survey, released this week, U.S. beekeepers lost nearly 40% of their honeybee colonies last winter — the greatest reported winter hive loss since the partnership started its surveys 13 years ago. The total annual loss was slightly above average.
Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Quatermass 2 and Quatermass and the Pit Blu-ray releases. Previously due out in May, they will now street on July 30. Produced by Hammer Films, both movies are sequels to 1955’s The
Quatermass Xperiment.
1957’s Quatermass 2 (released in the US as
Enemy from Space) is directed by Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment).
Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, William Franklyn,
and Vera Day star.
1967's Quatermass and the Pit (released in the US
as Five Million Years to Earth) is directed by Roy Ward Baker (Asylum).
James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, and Julian Glover star.
Quatermass 2 has received a new 2K scan of a pristine archival print. Special features for both titles can be found below.
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