spodek

49 ms·

421.
by spodek 7y ago
Pictures of Sao Paolo before and after banning billboards leads me to support this idea. Some examples (with a couple bonus pictures of London removing billboards): https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-
422.
by spodek 7y ago
I would be glad to see farmers markets and public green space with living plants and places for children to play freely displace them all.
423.
by spodek 7y ago
Science to me means observing and experimenting with nature, then honestly reporting the results. With the science around the environment so conclusive and the timeline for preventing suffering so short, I consider the most important task o
424.
by spodek 7y ago
> Is the absolute value of the population the issue or is resources used/carbon output, per capita, a more significant problem? Both are problems. We are over the carrying capacity so we are bringing on collapse, even if rate of gro
425.
by spodek 7y ago
> Nichols believes that for the most part peatlands are drying up and decaying more and more quickly as planet temperatures rise > Add to that the furious pace at which humans are burning up wetlands We need to talk about population.
426.
by spodek 7y ago
> Finally, a standardized test of mathematics ability found no difference between boys and girls. > So why are fields like mathematics and computer science so dominated by men? At that age, boys' and girls' hips, shoulde
427.
by spodek 7y ago
I've only seen it as a gendered slur used condescendingly to silence and shame men, as your post did.
428.
by spodek 7y ago
I found not flying a better alternative. Everybody tells me what I would have said before, that it's impossible to avoid, which is why I pointed out how the experience changed everything. It turns out many things were possible I didn&#
429.
by spodek 7y ago
I challenged myself to go a year without flying for climate reasons. I thought I would hate it. Work, family, and lifestyle depended on it. It turns out it was one of the best things I've done. Experience taught me what I never could h
430.
by spodek 7y ago
I've never felt better. I can count several years that were the worst of my life and it didn't make sense to go on -- my first year of graduate school when I got my life's worst grades, my girlfriend left me, I didn't ha
431.
by spodek 7y ago
Do you prefer they lean to the right, increase deficits, and promote a military budget larger than the military asks for?
432.
by spodek 7y ago
Generations ago I would have agreed. Several generations of inaction have resulted in needing a less-than-two child rate. Before the Haber-Bosch process, humans numbered about 2 billion. That process requires fossil fuels. With some efficie
433.
by spodek 7y ago
Calling a space a "transit desert" implies the problem is too little transit and pushes for more transit. How about overdevelopment? I'm all for public transit, but building and then calling for the public to provide transit
434.
by spodek 7y ago
In the case of this piece, the "story" of dealing with death or separation is older than humans. If there is any news to it, it's our society's continued isolation. We didn't evolve in such lonely existences, far fr
435.
by spodek 7y ago
> I just realized that life itself is basically a gigantic Ponzi scheme, and the pyramid is dangerously close to collapsing. In the developed world, we have evolved a society in which a relatively small number of old people have many of
436.
by spodek 7y ago
Don't forget his enjoyable and meaningful TED talk on starting a movement https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_moveme...
437.
by spodek 7y ago
Gossip and all its moralizing and social consequences used to happen over the back yard fence. Now it's major stories in the paper of record, such as this one. Another unintended side effect of the internet.
438.
by spodek 7y ago
Lower birthrates are our best hope for lowering our population from above what the Earth can sustain without suffering and early deaths due to famine, war, disease, and so on. There are large uncertainties over the planet's carrying ca
439.
by spodek 7y ago
I consider a major role of government to regulate behavior that hurts others. That is, you can swing your fist around as much as you like by yourself, but I want a law preventing you from swinging it into my face. Polluting the air, land, a
440.
by spodek 7y ago
The emotions most people associate with environmental action seem to be shame and guilt. I propose paying more attention to emotions and leading with different ones since emotions motivate. The more I act on my environmental values, the mor
441.
by spodek 7y ago
Besides the practical, physical advice from others on equipment and gear, I recommend a mindset reset that billions of people around the world ride bikes rain or shine every day -- old, young, rich, poor, male, female, etc -- and have for g
442.
by spodek 7y ago
> Utrecht, like many other European cities, spent several postwar decades trying to make automobile use easier. > The effort included building a four-lane highway over centuries-old canals, making space for parked cars on its narrow c
443.
by spodek 7y ago
You state strong agreement then -- justice served with Exxon, as well as curbing what stops regulation. You mentioned one source of curbing -- companies like Exxon. I cited another -- the people of the U.S. and our lifestyles. Independent o
444.
by spodek 7y ago
I hope justice is served with Exxon, but I also hope people motivate personal change by realizing that most of us did what Exxon did in the same time on an individual level. Growing up in the 70s, I heard about sea level rise and global war
445.
by spodek 7y ago
> one of the classic problems of applied mathematics. Maybe I'm biased with my physics PhD, but I'd call it a physics problem. "Solving" it to me means a closed-form solution, not a particular prediction, but I gues
446.
by spodek 7y ago
Once the price got too low, the bottom guy could have blackmailed the guy above to blackmail the guy above to blackmail the guy above to blackmail the guy above to blackmail the guy to make more money. (was that too many levels?)
447.
by spodek 7y ago
I felt that way too. Doing it changed everything. For example, I was pleasantly surprised to find cooking from scratch saved time and money and led to more social interactions. Now I often host heads of corporations for dinners, a Nobel Pea
448.
by spodek 7y ago
> reached a record speed of 385 kilometers per hour, 10 percent higher than the designed speed Not to be outdone, an Amtrak train reached a record 38.5 hours late to Penn Station on the same day.
449.
by spodek 7y ago
Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen's license, or at least the license they started. It's all of our license now, I'd think.
450.
by spodek 7y ago
Need incentive to buy less clothing, especially fast fashion? Watch The True Cost , available free here: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost . Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDx7

More ›