Author: Tom

Slack for families

By Tom on April 4, 2016 — 1 min read

We’ve recently been experimenting with using Slack at home. It’s been pretty great so I thought I’d share our setup in the hope that I might find others doing similar things. If you are, I’d love to hear about it! So I recently setup a Slack team for our family, it’s called “The Willmots”. So…

USDA: Meat Eating > Environmental Protection

By Tom on October 7, 2015 — 1 min read

World-wide, meat production is responsible for more greenhouse gases than our entire transport infrastructure. A national approach to reducing meat consumption could have a huge effect. ”Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant-based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal-based foods is more…

Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence–In Space

By Tom on October 6, 2015 — 1 min read

Turns out water is more common than we thought, amazing how quickly our scientific understanding of the universe continues to expand at a such a rate. But it was only 40 years ago, in 1969, that scientists first confirmed that water existed anywhere besides Earth. Source: Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In…

The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret

By Tom on October 6, 2015 — 1 min read

Everyone knows about the spread of war and the hopeless intractability of poverty. But everyone is wrong. Source: The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret