Favorites October 4th 2023
Very nice, although I'm not sure I can get behind Wright's motivation for proposing it: he wanted more space for suburbs.
She just won the Nobel prize for her work on the vaccine. We came so close to losing that. One commenter asked what other innovations we've lost because of the people who have not been able to come to or stay in the US. 330k people left China in 2022, but few were able to come to the US, it's too unpredictable.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– China may be taking away the lesson from Ukraine that Russia has managed to avoid direct western support by threatening use of nuclear weapons. (src)
– A bridge built in the UK that can open for boats, but is operated by a single person turning a winch (src)
– Kevin McCarthy is out, in part because none of the Democrats voted to keep him. They probably should have voted for him in return for almost any concession, but he offered none. Romney agrees with Democrats on this one. (src)
– Apparently the Chinese deploy anti submarine nets, which seem to have caught one of their own nuclear submarines (src)
– A caltrans employee was demoted for pointing out that they were misappropriating state funds to widen highways. (src)
– Roosevelt Institute's proposed solution to infrastructure being blocked by lawsuits is to just build it somewhere that no one will complain about. Unfortunately, there is no such place.. (src)
– Conservative legal group that's had success has the ultimate goal of banning contraceptives (src)
– Great White Sharks have been disappearing off South Africa because their livers are being eaten by killer whales. (src)
– Interesting excerpts from Patrick Stewart's memoir (src)
– "Hidden costs of an electric bike" made up 100% of tounge-in-cheek costs like "E-Bikes will impact your wallet, because they're so cheap!" (src)
– If you build a space ship that rotates for artificial gravity, big windows are probably a no-no. Even at 1rpm, people are gonna get nauseous (src)
– Explanation of how the Playdate game 'diorama' achieved 3d visuals on such a low powered device. (src)
– Lord of the flies was written because the author heard that boys marooned on an island were totally chill, and he thought that was lame (src)