Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season where they'll recycle your old incandescent strings of lights and swap them for new LED strands.  I think the restriction is 5 strands per person, but that's still a pretty good start to a more…

Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season…

Yes, regulation, and some transparency on if or how the produce was processed and tested. My favorite organic brand has a “double test and hold” policy for coliform bacteria that they use on all their greens, and they haven’t had a incident of illness since they implemented the practice several years ago.

Betcha dollars to donuts this tracks back to improper use of manure or “processed” sewage as fertilizer.

You’re gut’s in the right place.  The issue with E. Coli is that some strains can reproduce enough on/in the product that they leave significant quantities of toxins behind (as waste product of their own metabolism) and while cooking temperatures can kill the bacteria, they are not high enough to denature the toxins,…

Depends on the plastic. Earthbound Farm buys plastic water and soda bottles that have been pelletized and then molds them into clear plastic clamshells for their salads and greens. They figure that buying the recycled pellets instead of buying pre-made clamshells also saves a ton of fuel because the pellets are more…

WEAR NATURAL FIBERS.

This.

The only thing airplane ice has going for it is that it’s not actually being made on the plane, but rather being delivered in bags or whatever as the plane is being serviced at each stop. The turnaround time for the airlines these days means most planes are barely cleaned of litter and visible filth, let alone…

A phobia would imply an irrational fear. Food safety (and yes, that extends to ice as well as utensils, water, condiments, etc.) is a serious concern. Crunching the numbers tells us that you’re a million times more likely to have your life put at risk by foodborne illness than by terrorism - yet people are willing to…

I’m obviously sad for the workers impacted by this, especially those who are seemingly healthy now who will get struck down suddenly and mysteriously as these cumulative exposures finally start showing ill effects down the road.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and posit that rather than Jaguar’s cells having “slightly different chemistry” instead Jaguar’s engineers just wrote different charge management software to prevent their cells from charging to full capacity in the first place... i.e. It’ll show 100% on the dashboard, but the cells…

Isn’t filing charges against him secretly and trying to lure him into extradition proceedings basically confirming Assange’s seemingly paranoid beliefs? Can Assange have personally done anything that would be worth all this? Assange is high profile enough that people are out looking for his name or would recognize it…

You’re on the right track, except for that “simple bacterial test” is still in the realm of science fiction. Too many different possible pathogens and metabolic byproducts, undefined levels of what it might take to make somebody sick, and field tests in general are easily contaminated making for common false…

In all seriousness, if this tactic had been applied with the first reports of a Chipotle outbreak, there wouldn’t have been any other instances.  Having your entire inventory of out-of-temp or undated/unmarked food destroyed by the health department (they usually direct employees to do it while they stand and watch)…

I’d dig into the health code a little more on this if I were them. Most codes that I’ve had experience with either have exemptions for food giveaways and community events, or don’t apply to food at all if no money is changing hands (i.e. food provided gratis at church or a private home or community barbecue, etc.).…

Woof.

Following canon, shouldn’t Peter basically start out in his undies or pajamas (or modified street clothes) and you have to grind to get to the more advanced costumes? It seems like grinding to unlock the underwear outfit is a bit bass-ackwards, though I suppose the in-game explanation is a novel one.

On the one hand, the roided, beefcake comic depictions of the 80's and 90's are one of the reasons *this* little homo got into comics in the first place. It’s still unclear whose gaze, exactly, those extra-ripped and massive bodies were intended for, but I went along with it, even going so far as to get a copy of Stan…

At the end of the day, Chris Evans’ incarnation of Cap could walk around in a Hefty bag affixed with duct tape and still look like a total bad-ass.

Indeed, but I think in this context it’s more of a tactical shemagh than a statement of solidarity, thus the color choice.