Between overpopulation, ineffective corrupt planning, and global heating, Delhi is running out of water. People occasionally fight over water. The groundwater could all be used up by 2020.

Many approaches could help things limp by for some more years, if they were carried out, but the only humane lasting solution is to drastically reduce births in India.

Most breakfast foods for children, made with oats in the US, contain possibly dangerous levels of Roundup.

Quaker Oats and Cheerios have substantial levels.

Opt-out (enabled by default) organ donation might not increase availability if the state permits relatives to veto the donation.

The solution is obvious: stop catering to this deadly irrationality. Show the relatives the photos of some of the people who will receive the transplanted organs, and tell them, "We are going to save these people's lives with your relative's organs. Their lives are more important than details of burial."

In principle, there is no reason to allow people to veto use of their own organs. You don't need them after you are dead. But it is not irrational, in certain cases, for people to fear they will be killed for their organs — reportedly that has happened in China. And there is also the concern that the system might be too quick to declare you dead.

Farmers in Niger are revitalizing degraded land with acacia trees that help crops planted near them, and provide fertilizer too.

Unfortunately, a disease is spreading that threatens them all.

The banksters of the Royal Bank of Scotland joked about the suffering they would cause by making loans that homeowners would be bankrupted by.