It was a tough week in Tomorrowland, where everyone is above average, because the averages keep plummeting "faster than expected."
For a bit of Monday fun -- and for those 6 billion or so not paying close attention to what we're doing to ourselves -- below is this week's Pre-Apocalypse News & Info Quiz (PANIQuiz), about eco-collapse stories from the last seven days.
This Week's PANIQuestions (Answers below):
1. Why is the baby formula Synitra a concern in China?
a. It is causing "unusually early sexual development in infants."
b. There is not enough stock to keep up with population growth.
c. It is causing infants to "embrace capitalism."
d. It is causing infants to die.
e. It is causing infants to belt out "My Way" and "Come Fly With Me."
2. What terms are being associated with this year's New Jersey-sized "dead zone" at the base of the Mississippi?
a. embarrassing, shameful, sinful
b. unheard-of, unexpected, unanticipated
c. appalling, astonishing, unbelievable
d. traditional, average, target
e. abhorrent, disgusting, unacceptable
3. What is complicating the oil leak clean up off the coast of Mumbai?
a. Drums full of pesticide are floating about the slick.
b. People in India like toxic waters.
c. Apathy.
d. No one will take responsibility.
e. Huge storms.
4. When, according to a panel of scientists who spoke before Congress, will Greenland's ice sheet reach the "tipping point"?
a. Fifty years
b. Ten years
c. End of this century
d. Twenty five years
e. Twenty years
5. For the first time, what is the EPA placing limits on?
a. Obama's desires.
b. Mercury emissions from coal-fired plants.
c. Methane emissions from livestock.
d. Mercury emissions from cement plants.
e. The placing of limits.
6. What is a small Massachusetts company poised to offer the world to help relieve pressing food supply problems?
a. Olestra inhalers.
b. Cloned cattle.
c. Outpatient bariatric surgery.
d. Genetically-modified salmon.
e. Stir fry grasshoppers.
7. What is NDM-1?
a. The EPA's designation of CO2 as "Not Directly Meaningful."
b. Physicists' term for the "New Dark Matter" discovered in biochar.
c. A geological process that results in "hot pimples" instead of "volcanoes."
d. A new antibiotic-resistant bacterium with a gene that can be passed to other bacteria.
e. A chemical in Corexit oil dispersant that was not in the Colonel's recipe.
Answers:
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- Why is the baby formula Synitra a concern in China?
Correct Answer: (a): It is causing "unusually early sexual development in infants."
See "Baby milk in new scare" (Shanghai Daily News)
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/...
- What terms are being associated with this year's New Jersey-sized "dead zone" at the base of the Mississippi?
Correct Answer: (d): tradititional, average, target
See "Scientists find Gulf of Mexico dead zone only 'fifth largest on record'" (PhysOrg)
http://www.physorg.com/...
- What is complicating the oil leak clean up off the coast of Mumbai?
Correct Answer: (a): Drums full of pesticide are floating about the slick.
See "Oil leak off Mumbai coast has stopped: Coast Guard sources" (New Dehli NDTV)
http://www.ndtv.com/...
- When, according to a panel of scientists who spoke before Congress, will Greenland's ice sheet reach the tipping point?
Correct Answer: (b): Ten years
See "Greenland ice sheet faces 'tipping point in 10 years'" (Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
- For the first time, what is the EPA placing limits on?
Correct Answer: (d): Mercury emissions from cement plants.
See "EPA requires cleanup of mercury from cement plants" (McClatchy Newspapers)
http://www.miamiherald.com/...
- What is a small Massachusetts company poised to offer the world to help relieve pressing food supply problems?
Correct Answer: (d): Genetically-modified salmon.
See "Poised on History's Doorstep: Super Salmon or Frankenfish?" (Chicago Tribune)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
- What is NDM-1?
Correct Answer: (d): A new antibiotic-resistant bacterial gene that can be passed to other bacteria.
See "International travel increasing spread of new drug-resistant bacteria: Is this the end of antibiotics?" (PhysOrg)
http://www.physorg.com/...
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