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The Hidden Cost of Gasoline

Kate Yoder | Grist | 14th June 2023

The environmental costs of the motor-car have been well publicised; those of the gas station less so. But the slow death of the gas station, as cars go electric, will force a reckoning. Gas stations have been polluting the earth and the ground-water beneath them for decades. Storage-tanks corrode, pipes leak and pumps spill. The gas station of today may be the toxic wasteland of tomorrow (4,232 words)

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Eulogy For Sidney Morgenbesser

David Shatz | Tablet | 27th June 2014

Sidney Morgenbesser was "one of the truly spectacular philosophical minds of his time". He wrote little, but talked endlessly, content for his colleagues and students to build on his ideas, as many did. His quick wit and one-liners were legendary. "Wittgenstein once remarked that you could write a book of philosophy consisting entirely of jokes. We all know who could have authored that book" (3,100 words)

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