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This deals mainly with commercial vehicle electrification, but the broader discussion is on topic: Grid not ready, not close. https://www.fleetowner.com/emissions-efficiency/video/…

How about your supply chain choices? Do you shop Amazon or ship/receive via FedEx? https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/amazon-air-expands-with-10... If no, then I applaud your sacrif…

I can say this: As much as I believe anything, I believe I was born to write a widely acclaimed novel. But I'm also a rational person who recognizes this is ridiculous. Even a pers…

This is very much a state-by-state issue. Of note, however, because Texas is so large and orders so many textbooks, and because publishers don't want to customize their titles for …

Okay, I'll bite. I was at a urinal today that had a mesh screen of a style I'd never noticed, and I thought: Some guy with a degree in engineering/fluid dynamics has this on his re…

Plus ça change, the better it has been said before: In philosophy, anamnesis is a concept in Plato's epistemological and psychological theory that humans possess innate knowledge (…

“The Double Helix” Rich on so many levels—must read for anyone considering grad school with a real, research component. Also a good, broad look at team/organizational dynamics—and,…

Would women's significantly superior graduation rates to men's in NCAA basketball qualify as 'toxic masculinity'? Or benign disinterest? Not that disinterest can't be toxic... http…

Many, many communities still rely, at least in part, on volunteer firefighters. I know a number of former military guys that love it--provides that the risk/rush and camaraderie yo…

I became a recent fan after catching a feature film [0] and a documentary [1] about the band. Worth a look and listen. [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/ [1] http://www.imdb.…

The real testament to Waffle House is the way more than a few hipsters of my acquaintance started going for a serving of post-party irony--then found out they really love hash brow…

So our metro library system (well respected) is promoting an eclipse education event, with free viewing glasses. Should the sourcing be suspect? (95% viewing area)

Side note, forgotten (by me): Post-Dunkirk, Britain and France--represented by Churchill and DeGaulle--planned to unite. From The Atlantic story: "Although that battle story is fai…

Not trying to to be flip, but with age and experience much will be revealed. Until then, the author is boxing himself in by coming up with his tidy categories. Some people are natu…

I am truly bewildered. Was in Madras a couple of months ago, and all the talk of eclipse was, I thought then, preposterous. Now Portland businesses are making contingency plans for…

Semi-related, and with all due props to GOT: Check out the first couple of episodes of Michael Wood's The Story of China on PBS. The Westeros plotters were pikers compared to the r…

I also immediately thought of kibbutzim, just as a counterexample for debate. (Full disclosure: ex-volunteer) From Agriculture To High-Tech: Meet Five Kibbutzim That Became Global …

Well, here's a/the start to "old school": http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.html

More broadly, systemically, the states still manage highway projects, for instance. The US federal government just funds them--although post-earmark programs (TIGER grants, federal…

Ironically, the pinnacle of corruption was the way Congress swapped district-specific funding ("earmarks") in lieu of outright cash/votes swaps on non-transportation legislation. T…

Find annotated text for your early efforts, especially when you tackle the plays. Even for a native English speaker (at least for an American) many of the Elizabethan terms are mea…

Tangential, but worth sharing for HN crowd, I think. Psychologist Jung and physicist Pauli worked very closely together to explore the unity of mind and matter. Some of their theor…

I am a good leader, trained by a father who--I kid you not--had his children up before dawn to listen to the same motivational/management how-to tapes he listened to. Only, perhaps…

Or a bell curve