Anything but water

• Bread and circuses: People are reading a lot of... sports papers.
  
  
• The inflection point of social media -- when twittering fails human needs.
  
  
• Climate bollocks -- a snazzy video retort to climate change skeptics.
  
  
• A special issue on land grabs -- rich countries buying land in poor, often corrupt, countries to grow and export food.
  
  
• Remember Monsanto's lawsuit against the farmer who "stole" GM-seeds? Monsanto lost that case (and a second) against the farmer, mainly because Monsanto wanted damages from a farmer who gained no benefit from their seeds.
  
  
• In related news, researchers say that global warming -- and peak temperatures in particular -- is going to have very negative effects on crop yields.

H/T to JWT