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Am I missing it, or does this fail to convey the key information: how long does it take?

Yes, driving a car makes you morally culpable for the harms it does. If you ranked the harms you are likely to cause, driving a car would be very near the top of the list. You are …

I remember reading that Royal Navy engineers maintaining nuclear submarines use Li-Fi to connect their workstations to the network. They said it was a security requirement - does s…

OK - I see there is a pretty strong case here. One of the most astonishing Kant facts I've read (I've no idea how this could be verified) is that despite the sea being an hour away…

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the largest charity in the UK by membership. People do take a lot of direct personal action on this topic.

Because of his regular schedule?

I've heard the safety argument before and I find it astonishing. If you can't drive safely without making a noise audible from miles away, your vehicle isn't fit for the road. Howe…

This makes so much sense. I wish the UK would take the same approach.

There are legal standards for both vehicle noise and vehicle emissions, at least in the UK. When owners modify their exhaust to make them noisier, they are likely breaching one or …

No doubt engine noise is caused by lots of factors. You can modify they exhaust to make it louder or quieter. I understand a lot of bikers modify their exhaust to make it louder. A…

In suburban London and the surrounding countryside, so much of the noise is caused by a handful of motorbikes that have been made deliberately, I think usually illegally, noisy. St…

A agree you can't 'get all the guns back', but there are still reasons to consider more stringent controls, two spring to mind: 1) It's about the social permission you give to peop…

I don't know, but I'm guessing there's a big difference between knowing how to play your scales and playing perfectly evenly and fluidly.

All those young people on Facebook...

What is the prison meaning?

As other commenters have noted, surely the goal should be to make usable designs, of which looking beautiful is a small part?

Germany does have a plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende

A real middle finger to existing customers. It's so instantly and visibly rude.

The system doesn't work anymore. I don't think There is a country-specific elite culture now.

Yes, although I'm not sure they had the capacity to institutionalise eduction to that end.

Amazing reference!

"Drunk the cool aid..." In the UK case I've heard the idea that the Publc School system emerged for exactly this reason. ('Public' schools being the most elite schools in the UK). …

Lol, Gowanus canal

I feel bad we didn't get dang anything.