How One Kid Stopped the Contamination of a River
To halt the illegal flow of raw sewage into Nova Scotia’s LaHave River, it took a determined 11-year-old with water samples and a Facebook page.

Stella Bowles was 11 years old when she first donned her rubber boots to test for water contamination in the LaHave River, which runs beside her home on the ( Read more... )

On a mailing list of linguistic silliness that I follow, one of the regulars yesterday wrote
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I hope all you USians are enjoying your long weekend before the anniversary of throwing perfectly good tea into a harbour for no real reason.
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Somebody else linked to the article I've pasted below and remarked:
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Which is to say, caffeinating seawater' ( Read more... )