Links of interest

(Before It's News)

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1. Useful Q&A on private sector participation in water services
2. The legal issues complicating groundwater management in India are not too different from those of California
3. In 2017, maybe you should spend more time creating beauty around you?
4. Steven Pinker: The natural state is chaos and decay, so don’t be surprised when it happens and do work to overcome it!
5. Ants do not “manage” like humans with roles, but in a distributed “ANTarchy”
6. “Why time management is ruining our lives”
7. “Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy“
8. To do math right, you need to be creative
9. Trade and innovation are very similar: big benefits come with SOME costs
10. Belgium doesn’t do well in a simulated war with the Netherlands. Here’s to peace!

And here are a few to read now that Trump is running after Putin like a horny teenager:

• Russia’s culture and why that means undermining (not joining) the West
• The Baltics are worthy Europeans, and may survive Russian interference
• “How State-Sponsored Blackmail Works in Russia“

• ‘The Last Days of Night’ (book review)
• For a few hours, Badlands National Park was bad to the bone in defiance of Trump
• Dwindling numbers of protesters march against Venezuela government as crisis deepens – IMF projects economic woes will worsen
• There was no pause in global warming
• Another attack on Anthropocene science
• Fertilisers can make plants sicker
• Trump administration silences federal scientists at USDA, EPA – National Park Service defies gag order with tweets on climate science
• USDA’s Historic Role Doing Research and Educating the Farm Community on Hold?
• Two-Thirds of Americans Prioritize Alternative Energy over Fossil Fuels
• DNA Nip and Tuck Likely to Escape Labeling