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andrewducker- China Has Already Gene-Edited 86 People With CRISPR
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- India's switched-at-birth babies who refused to swap back (The hospital bureaucrats should be fired)
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- The President's Club, MeToo and a difficult conversation
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- City transit is undermined by rich people pretending that everyone can travel the way that they like to, despite that being physically impossible
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- Producers Guild of America Anti-Sexual Harassment Guidelines
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- How Heartland saved a fortune on tax by adding molasses - and then removing it again
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- How Jessica Chastain got Octavia Spencer five times the pay
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- Sperm counts in western men down by 50% since 1973
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- Star War-inspired 3D images floating in thin air
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- New test can tell IBS sufferers whether the low-Fodmap diet will help (which it does 73% of the time)
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- New Study Shows GA-Map Gut Microbial Composition Test Successfully Identifies IBS Patients That Can Benefit from FODMAP Diet
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- Tesla! vs! Lovecraft!
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- A 15-year look at how energy changed in the US, state by state
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- Poland moves to make phrase 'Polish death camps' a criminal offence
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- The Follower Factory - huge numbers of fake Twitter followers sold for pennies a time to desperate celebrities
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- Record-setting polar explorer, 16, hits back at men who say she belongs in the kitchen
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- ‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement
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Date: 2018-01-28 03:41 pm (UTC)14. That particular Polish law proposal is another of their problematic actions in the last half-decade.
16. Loved that report. "You want that sandwich? Come to the South Pole to get it!" :-D
17. A good ending to a long musical dispute.
City Transit
Date: 2018-01-29 06:44 am (UTC)Until then though, I'm of the opinion the humble motor scooter could help a lot with current congestion. Unlike bicycles, they can share the road with cars because they go as fast as cars. Watch this cam for a while, preferably during rush-hour, to see what I mean...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Y8TF8JbLw
Re: City Transit
Date: 2018-01-29 09:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-29 09:51 am (UTC)I've always been fond of the remark that a civilised city isn't one where the poor people have cars but where the rich take public transport.
I think the cost advantage of removing the driver favours public transport, especially along with some sort of organised ride sharing for the last half a mile of a journey.
Smart cities and polities will side step the messy conversation about whether the lower middle classes can all ride round in robot chauffered cars all the time and just move to putting in cheap, plentiful mass transit with some 21st century gloss.
Every time I read something that Musk has said or written about Hyperloop and his tunnel company I think to myself "Well done, you've invented the subway." And I'm fine with Musk putting a lot of money in to digging tunnels, running them inefficiently, going bust and then someone using the tunnels as a bus lane.
In Musk's defence, if he's correct that he can significantly lower the cost and time of digging tunnels then that might turn out to be really useful. Having 4 tunnels under Princes Street with a couple of underground stops on each would probably sort out our bus problem.
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Date: 2018-01-29 10:50 am (UTC)The developed countries in the world probably have about as much large-scale hydro as they can. Except perhaps Norway.
I wish I understood the nuclear industry. They seem to have lost interest in selling to the West.
I think the question over the next 15 years is going to be how to solve the problems that let you fit more cheap renewables on the grid without spending all the money on capex.
Also, over the next 15 years we'll discover what the longer term degradation factor for solar PV is. That's going to be an interesting number.
Texas is a most peculiar place. Imagine not having interconnection with your neighbours.