Actually, the environmental impact of eBooks is not likely to be smaller than the impact of paper books, because the readers will have all the usual heavy metals, plastics, short lifetimes, warranty-voiding cases, and non-user-serviceable parts. I.e., you will change your reader every year or two and the mountains of old readers will poison streams in some developing country for the next 50,000 yr.
I believe that the fraction of churches that are opposed to Darwinian evolution (and, eg, the big bang, etc) is in fact extremely small. At one point, Max Tegmark was going to do the statistics; he told me that he was finding that the number of believers represented by anti-Darwin churches is small.
I thought Pluto was no longer a planet; maybe they expect that it will re-gain planet status by 2015? But by then the argument will be that Quaoar is the only planet that hasn't had a mission.
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Actually, the environmental impact of eBooks is not likely to be smaller than the impact of paper books, because the readers will have all the usual heavy metals, plastics, short lifetimes, warranty-voiding cases, and non-user-serviceable parts. I.e., you will change your reader every year or two and the mountains of old readers will poison streams in some developing country for the next 50,000 yr.
No, but that's because cars cost 10^4 times as much as video games!
Agreed. Perhaps the institutions tend to be more sensible than their constituents.
I believe that the fraction of churches that are opposed to Darwinian evolution (and, eg, the big bang, etc) is in fact extremely small. At one point, Max Tegmark was going to do the statistics; he told me that he was finding that the number of believers represented by anti-Darwin churches is small.
I thought Pluto was no longer a planet; maybe they expect that it will re-gain planet status by 2015? But by then the argument will be that Quaoar is the only planet that hasn't had a mission.