- Melting permafrost is putting climate chaos into overdrive (and we barely know what’s happening)
- Informal urbanism makes cities human-friendly
- The Economist, commenting on “unexplainably low” inflation, suggests “a uniform handout to the public in which every adult received an equal share of newly created money.” I like that idea — and suggested it 3.5 years ago!
- Amsterdam will tax street advertising (i.e., sidewalk-boards or windows-ads). Love this.
- Stockton’s basic income experiment is improving lives, not slackers.
- Jeff Bezos, SciFi nerd, is taking humanity to space.
- The simple math of mass transit (7x capacity) over private cars
- A scalper’s life and retirement…
- Maybe climate chaos disrupting sports will get men to turn away from muscle cars, red meat, and competitive (positional) consumption?
- Water quality is important, but it’s getting worse.
H/T to PB