Next time you see an advertisement saying some product could be up to 20% more effective, think of these maxims of quantity and relevance, and ask yourself what inferences you are being led to draw.
We need a new look at the harnessing of scientific discoveries, to maximize their positive effects for the promotion of humanity as a whole and to minimize their negative effects.
It was during the ages of the iron horse that delivery really starts to become fast. The United States translated most folk mails by train by nearly 100 years.
Last year the UN's food and Agriculture Organisation said that food production would have to increase globally by 70% by 2050 to feed the world's surging population.
Making polluters pay for their emissions will inevitably raise the cost of electricity and fuel, which will feel like a big hike in taxes in the midst of a recession.
Since nitrogen is four fifths of the air we breathe, they are surprisingly optimistic about raising the temperature on Mars and believe it could be done in hundred years.
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