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Summaries
Crushed
How a Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2022
He’s Baseball’s Only Mud Supplier. It’s a Job He May Soon Lose.
Jim Bintliff collects the Delaware River mud that is smeared on Major League baseballs to make them less slippery. But that tradition is in jeopardy.
The New York Times, 2022
When Shipping Containers Sink in the Drink
We’ve supersized our capacity to ship stuff across the seas. As our global supply chains grow, what can we gather from the junk that washes up on shore?
The New Yorker, 2022
The price of paper has doubled this year and publishers are freaking out that their print magazines and newspapers are in jeopardy
Publishers are getting seriously concerned about the soaring cost of paper
Business Insider UK, 2022
Arriving Today
From Factory to Front Door – Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
HarperBusiness, 2021
How to Rescue the World’s Biggest Cargo Ships
Enormous container ships ferry goods all over the world, but when one of them gets into trouble – as happened with the Ever Given and the Ever Forward recently – how can they be saved?
BBC, 2022
The Rising Risk of a Global Food Crisis
The war in Ukraine poses a looming threat to the worldwide food supply. Here’s what’s at stake – and what might be done to help.
McKinsey, 2022