Insanity!!

Yaay!! Have finally figured out how to title my posts (the title bar needs to be physically turned on in the settings menu, how silly).

Interesting:
National Geographic has an article about a study that has made some preliminary findings that link weather (specifically rain and thunder storms) to traffic patterns!! The researchers think that increased pollution caused by the increased traffic on weekdays, particularly truck traffic, may explain why rainstorms are more frequent and heavier on weekdays. Apparantly, pollution releases tiny particles into the air, which then causes moisture to coalesce into tiny droplets. These little droplets then rise higher in the air than regular ones, which generally makes for a stronger, more intense storm. (The study was conducted in Southeast US.) How bizarro (in a totally logical way) is that?

Along the same, though far more humorous, line-- dairy cows have been cited by the government as "the main source of smog-forming pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley, California." It seems that the cows are only the latest livestock to be "branded an environmental health risk on account of their flatulent behavior," and that they emit more smog-forming gases than cars! Just think, everytime you pass gas, you may be contributing to the hole in the ozone. Bean lovers beware.