Advertising is weird. Elsewhere, this majority vote was called a "stinging defeat". I'm only keeping this because it's a funny twist on an extraordinarily depressing statistic: Ok, moving on to something completely different: This is quite a study. I’m having trouble telling if they’re talking about pesticide use in populated areas, or in orchards, but either way, it seems like tighter restrictions on pesticide use in populated areas is probably warranted.
A friend once told me never to use Japan as an example for, well, anything, but rules are meant to be broken. Regarding cars in cities:
My abiding memory of walking through Osaka during the day was how...quiet and polite the city itself seemed to be, which seems a silly thing to say. It seems especially silly when I say this to people who know Japan, as Osakans have a reputation for being loud and expressive. It must be a mix of cars with small displacement engines that shut off at a stop, fewer cars in general, quiet buses and trains, and something about their urban design that led to this impression. Anyway, go to Osaka, it's great.
A friend once told me never to use Japan as an example for, well, anything, but rules are meant to be broken. Regarding cars in cities:
My abiding memory of walking through Osaka during the day was how...quiet and polite the city itself seemed to be, which seems a silly thing to say. It seems especially silly when I say this to people who know Japan, as Osakans have a reputation for being loud and expressive. It must be a mix of cars with small displacement engines that shut off at a stop, fewer cars in general, quiet buses and trains, and something about their urban design that led to this impression. Anyway, go to Osaka, it's great.