- The stories behind people’s tattoos.
- House prices will drop as climate risk gets priced in (most obviously, “this neighborhood won’t be here”)
- Watch this vlog, by a carpenter who was attacked and how he is recovering, mentally and physically. Key insight: “for the one person who attacked me, 10,000 others have not… and many have stopped to help. We are good people, most of the time.”
- The resurgence in restaurant diversity that I predicted is taking place (can’t find the link, but I said that new ideas would grow where older restaurants went broke during COVID), as pop-ups turn into full time locations (in the US). Watch.
- Listen to the interesting history of “gaslighting”
- Will pro-life evangelicals abandon El Cheeto, now that he’s pro-choice? Probably not, sadly.
- Impatient people have no problem with facial recognition, so businesses are making it harder to avoid it.
- A coffee geek shows an influencer how to really do the scientific method. Bravo James!
- The Economist has a good overview of how climate chaos is making water dirtier, in shortage or surplus. They did not do a good job of explaining private vs social water, nor of how “bad water” will reduce our quality of life, but it’s a start.
- Well, this sucks: “In 2010 the Nuffield Foundation, a think-tank, decided to test whether Britain was really so bad at offering educational breadth by comparing it with 24 other countries, mostly drawn from the oecd, a rich-country club. In England fewer than one in five students studied maths after 16. In 18 of the countries more than half did; in eight, everyone did. Government data suggest that almost half of the working-age population in Britain have the numeracy skills of a primary school child.”