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NBER is not a governmental organization.

You must live in the late 20th or early 21st century. Your claim doesn't hold true for most of human history.

Just a nit: beer never had loads of NO2. So-called "nitro" pours are pushed with nitrogen gas (N2), not NO2. This is a good thing, since NO2 is rather toxic: https://en.wikipedia.o…

I think it's pretty clear that the article intends "rapidly expanding niche" to refer to all of "third-wave specialty coffee," not just Blue Bottle.

That's an apples-and-oranges comparison. The system you cite differs from the one under discussion in several ways; the most important of which are: 1. The cited system does not in…

>That said, relying on a fuel source that requires CO2 as >input seems just as potentially destabilizing to the global >carbon cycle as relying on a fuel source that produces CO2 >…

You've got a lot of it right, but you're missing the key advance described here, which--if true--is pretty wild. Taking a step back, in 2016, this group did cover a bacterium with …

That may be the origin of this particular phrasing, but the idea is much older: In 1973, the artist Richard Serra made a film called Television Delivers People which declares "You …

A descendent of pluto is still in use: http://www.cryst.chem.uu.nl/spek/platon/pl010000.html See also: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/ccd/graphics/p012.htm

I won't pass judgement on whether 410 micrograms/kg is an "unbelievable" amount, but I will just mention that it is 410 parts per billion, or less than 1 ppm.

This is fascinating and, like you say, counter-intuitive. Can you expand on this or provide some links?

Some background and context from someone tangentially related to the field: 1. The overall idea here is to take an intermittent energy source (e.g. solar power) and "store" it as c…