miscellaneous

What we learned this week

Over the past 50 years, Madagascar has become 10% hotter and 10% drier, and is currently suffering a major drought.

Green products might make us feel so good about ourselves that we think we can get away with other, less environmentally aware things – a moral offset, if you will – making green consumerism something rather unhelpful.

The first UK train ticket to cost over £1,000 has gone on sale. You could get a round-the-world air ticket for less than that.

Kellogg’s are so paranoid about the public perception that they make non-branded cereals for supermarkets that they’ve developed a way of branding the flakes themselves. I wonder how much the research into laser etching has added to each box?

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