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Interesting article on the relationship between cartography and the development of California's early highway system.

Without wanting to paint with too broad a brush, I would say in my experience driving in 10x countries, U.S. drivers, being most habituated to spending their lives in cars, drive i…

FYI, this is about the titles of these books, not the textual content of the books themselves. The implication of the article is that sci-fi is losing relative standing to fantasy,…

“Cost per square foot” to build doesn’t take into account land acquisition costs? Some of the “economies of scale” the author is discussing accrue to whoever in the development par…

In the U.S., which is among the largest oil producer as of recent years, the fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidized.[1] [1] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5…

Great tip! Never knew this. Thank you!!

This comment does not show a lot of curiosity - even a quick read of the Wikipedia article for gender identity refutes this argument. Gender has been differentially and socially co…

Not to hijack this thread, but curious whether some map people out there might opine on growth areas for this space - technologically, artistically, product-wise.

Same here.

From my own professional experience: it costs a minimum of $350 per net rentable square foot for new construction of mid-rise rental apartment buildings. This includes all material…

Plastic American-style milk bottles are funnily enough one of the only easily recycled plastics, if I am remembering correctly. Standardized glass containers would be useful, altho…

Yes, this is a good point. Plastic is cheap because producers don’t pay the true costs. There are externalities with glass too (think shattered bottles in public spaces) but my fee…

As a cook I find the squeeze actually sort of frustrating. Sometimes it usefully delivers the right amount of ketchup (or mustard, or whatever) to its destination; mostly it splatt…

This is very interesting, but I can’t help but feel that a glass bottle with a metal cap (and one of those Dutch condiment spatulas) would be just fine for all these applications a…

The target of these laws is not kitchen knives. Pocketknives (manual blade, less than 3") of most kinds are legal.[1, see exceptions] Bans of this kind are fairly common (for insta…

Not disagreeing with you per se, but what is benign in some contexts might not be so benign in others. Knife crime is a big problem in London - the tight regulation is in response …

Knife purchases are controlled in the U.K.[1] Persons under 18 are not allowed to buy knives, but in practice this means most people are showing an ID to purchase a knife. [1] http…