Legitimate Science with the Added Benefit of Fart Jokes

Dave's brilliant exposition of the relationship between performance science and our pointless obsessions inspired this afternoon's post. In a manner of speaking.

The crunchy folks at Mother Jones give us the inside poop on the results of a recently completed $15m EPA study that evaluated the impacts of bovine emissions on climate change. And more importantly for our purposes, ranked the states by their relative levels of cow-based flatulence.

The top 10: 1. California 2. Wisconsin 3. New York 4. Pennsylvania 5. Minnesota 6. Idaho 7. Texas 8. Michigan 9. Ohio 10. Washington. I'm as shocked as you are to see Pennsylvania in the top 5.