I believe most paints have been switched over to having low VOC content due to increased cancer risk. That means book reading might be cancerous to your health! (Or maybe not.)
You would be right for most cases of the word, but in this context it's in reference to a certain kind of dance, much like a "salsa dance" or a "ballroom dance", which makes it a noun.
Actually, it isn't so much a matter of being rich vs being poor as it is the level of inequality that influences generosity. People who have more are about as likely as those who have less to be generous when inequality is low, and according to some studies they are actually even more likely to do so. But when inequality is high then the generosity of the wealthy decreases.
How does your brain being biggest at 13 prove adulthood? I think it would better prove the opposite: brains are biggest at that age because they need the space to restructure things.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. If the meatpacking facility is treating it's water appropriately and the water quality is getting regularly tested as I imagine it would be then it's entirely possible that the meat packing plant could actually improve the quality of the water. Whether or not that will actually happen is another matter, but it's not cause for immediate doomerism.
Why do residential, commercial, and industrial sectors seem to have such better energy efficiency than electrical producers do? Is that just because of the inherent loss in distributing that energy?
I also never realized how bad transportation is with energy efficiency, why is it so much worse than stationary users are?
I don't get it.