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Sep. 25th, 2022 12:28 pmU*People Introduction to Environmental Sciences this week wants me to write 700-900 words on the cycling of one nutrient from a list so so help me god I'm writing about nitrogen fixation, crop run-off, eutrophication, and pee cycling. They say when writing, "don't be boring", but my experience with UoP is the post should be utterly banal but dressed in officious styling. The anthropologist in me sees this and goes omg, we're cargo culting education. So I know doing stuff like this will flop. This is for the peer-graded writing assignment. A lot of times, I get 100% or close to it on instructor graded things, but 0% or close to it on peer graded things. Peecycling doesn't play well out side of the North American demographic. But I'm a glutton for punishment.
I don't know what if any or how knowledge peculated thru, but my father taught my brother and I that it's a nice thing to do for a tree to pee on it (tho obviously in faux academic writing, I'm not going to mention uncitable trivia like that; it's merely background).
Some adequately citable stats, given venue standards, on the other hand, from https://goveganic.net/article217.html :
"Studies conducted in Sweden (Sundberg, 1995; Drangert, 1997) show that an adult's urine contains enough nutrients to fertilize 50-100% of the crops needed to feed one adult."
"Americans produce about 90 million gallons of urine a day, containing about 7 million pounds of nitrogen."
In other news, the 28 spoke wheel broke two more spokes, so we're down to 24. Still dragging my feet on dealing with that. A main argument against the magnesium alloy mag wheel is if the wheel bearings are el cheapo, and they aren't practically replaceable, then the whole thing is quickly a huge waste. I think I need to take all of the spokes out of my wheels before travel and just carry them with me.
Edit: It's probably ethno-chauvinistic of me to assume that my international classmates aren't extremely aware of peecycling in their own understanding of it, but I can at least tie that in to the sciency stuff we're supposed to be learning, right? And tie that in to current non-optimal production systems?
I don't know what if any or how knowledge peculated thru, but my father taught my brother and I that it's a nice thing to do for a tree to pee on it (tho obviously in faux academic writing, I'm not going to mention uncitable trivia like that; it's merely background).
Some adequately citable stats, given venue standards, on the other hand, from https://goveganic.net/article217.html :
"Studies conducted in Sweden (Sundberg, 1995; Drangert, 1997) show that an adult's urine contains enough nutrients to fertilize 50-100% of the crops needed to feed one adult."
"Americans produce about 90 million gallons of urine a day, containing about 7 million pounds of nitrogen."
In other news, the 28 spoke wheel broke two more spokes, so we're down to 24. Still dragging my feet on dealing with that. A main argument against the magnesium alloy mag wheel is if the wheel bearings are el cheapo, and they aren't practically replaceable, then the whole thing is quickly a huge waste. I think I need to take all of the spokes out of my wheels before travel and just carry them with me.
Edit: It's probably ethno-chauvinistic of me to assume that my international classmates aren't extremely aware of peecycling in their own understanding of it, but I can at least tie that in to the sciency stuff we're supposed to be learning, right? And tie that in to current non-optimal production systems?
