Jason Nunes

My new philosophy…

A really nifty simple idea:

In our cities, waste collection can be pretty wasteful itself. Garbage trucks have to make near constant trips to keep public trash bins from overflowing—contributing to traffic and pollution. To keep our cities in harmony, we’ll have to figure out a better system for urban waste collection. The people at BigBelly Solar already have one solution.

Ever since I read The River That Flows Uphill at the urging of a family member I’ve been totally bought into the hypothesis that at some point in time a human ancestor was aquatic (or partially aquatic). I’ve always wondered why I never heard much about the theory. Heh, I guess I didn’t realize that in believing it I had relegated myself to crackpot status. Apparently I am crackpot no more! (Well, maybe just a partial crackpot.) Elaine Morgan has come up with a ton of great answers to why humans look so different from our closest ancestors–why we are naked, why we walk upright, why we’ve got a subcutaneous fat layer–and all of ‘em point to a life in the water.