Pork art, Inedible Fish Eaten, and The Truth More Inconvenient Than Thought

It's not what you think. Really.

1. Hundreds of scientists from over a hundred institutions contributed to a study that found that 1/3 of the world's population is living in water-scarce areas, a situation that was predicted to occur in 2025 by an earlier study conducted by the same group. (Nature)

2. Inthewrongplaceness is Kira O'Reilly's performance art piece that seeks to bring London art to Penzance/southwest England. That is, if art means watching a naked woman cradle a dead pig for four hours, or as the artist describes it, "a slow crushing dance with a pig for one person at a time," or further describes:

The work left me with an undercurrent of pigginess, unexpected fantasies of mergence and interspecies metamorphoses began to flicker into my consciousness; making fiercely tender and ferocious identifications with the pig as stand in, double, twin, doll, imaginary self.

Right. (Reuters)

3. The NYT reports that those who eat fishes from the Hudson River have about two times as much mercury in their system than...you know...sane people.