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Most people have heard it by now: Our meat habit is bad for the world. Polling suggests that tens of millions of people are taking this message seriously: One in four Americans said they tried to cut back on meat in the last year, and half of those cited environmental concerns as a major reason. The popular food site Epicurious recently announced they’ve stopped publishing recipes with beef in them, because of beef’s climate impacts, setting off the latest round of discussion on meat’s effects on the environment.

Cutting meat consumption is as smart an idea as advertised. Industrial farming — the source of 99 percent of the meat Americans eat — provides the world with cheap meat, but it does so at a terrible environmental and moral cost.

Where it gets complicated is when people decide which meat, exactly, they’ll be cutting back on. Often, it’s beef that loses out in that calculus. And often, the messaging is that we can save the world by switching out our beef consumption for chicken.

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The Harvard astrophysicist who first suggested that the interstellar object (ISO) ‘Oumuamua was a ‘light sail sent from another civilization in space now suggests there may be a link to the mysterious space object and the US government’s upcoming report on UFOs

In an op-ed for Scientific American, Loeb, who is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard, theorizes that ‘Oumuamua could have ‘been meant to scan signals from all viewing directions,’ looking for sensors that a yet-to-be-discovered predecessor put into Earth’s atmosphere.

‘A predecessor to ‘Oumuamua could have been a craft that deposited small probes into the Earth’s atmosphere without being noticed because it visited before Pan-STARRS started its operations,’ Loeb wrote in the op-ed.

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Imagine yourself at home on the open road: There’s nothing tying you down, and a world of adventures is ahead of you. Now imagine that you can make that life not just feasible but comfortable, with everything you need to work and play right at your fingertips. This is van life.

In late 2018, my fiancé and I began planning our foray into elective nomadism, leaving behind offices and apartments for work, play, and life on the road. We spent six months living happily in our van, seeing sights and visiting friends. And although the pandemic cut our trip short, we’re looking forward to restarting our van adventures once that crisis is fully behind us.

The community of “van lifers” is only growing, filled with adventurers who see the vast expanse of living potential in that middle ground between lumbering RVs towing golf carts and bare-bones minivan mattresses. But how do you even get started? You can spin your wheels for a long time mixing and matching creature comforts and practical realities, but there are a few major paths people take.

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