tingilinde

whoops

SVB investors (not just depositors) will get $2 billion from taxpayers.

a tip of the hat to Cory 

americans like atheists more than mormons

How religious groups are viewed

 

 

Of course atheism isn't a religion, but the religious right likes to call it one.  And Mormons no longer use the label... it's strictly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 

 

good indoor light

We have a natural affinity for it.

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Over the course of our reporting, we came to think about this light — distinct from the blaze of a fluorescent light bulb — as the warm glow in a Vermeer painting. Dan Kaplan, a New York architect, put this idea in our heads.

When thinking about what an apartment wants that a modern office building often lacks, he wrote in an email:

“The ideal interior condition that you are getting at is perhaps best represented by those beautiful Vermeer paintings (‘The Music Lesson,’ ‘The Milkmaid,’ ‘The Geographer,’ etc.): tall windows (open!), letting soft light fall deeply into tall-ceilinged but relatively shallow rooms.”

Truly the man loved his window light:

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china's depopulation bomb

It's beginning to look like Japan's path.

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It appears to be a common sentiment among young urban women in China. A 2021 survey by China's Communist Youth League of almost 3,000 people between the ages of 18 and 26, found that more than 40% of young women living in cities did not plan to marry - compared to less than 25% of men. This is in part due to rising childcare costs and the ghosts of China's one-child policy.
"Having just one child or no children has become the social norm in China," says Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a prominent critic of the one-child policy.

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digital bioacoustics

A short interview on how it may be possible to better understand animals.

 

heroes of our time

A short talk by Timothy Snyder .. excellent.

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Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University, specializing in eastern Europe, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. His books have received widespread acclaim. His most recent book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," explores the everyday ways a citizen can resist the authoritarianism of today. He is also the author of "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" and, forthcoming in April 2018, "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America."

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a tip of the hat to David

38 years

Caltech's battle of the bots adds another year to its streak.

 

 

project greensand

A few weeks ago the project, which stores CO2 in depleted oil fields,  was inaugurated.   It seems like a great idea to pair with carbon capture at the point of combustion.  Denmark is betting on it to meet their climate goal.

 

 

one can surmise they didn't pay enough protection money

A wax museum's figures of Kate and Prince William.

a tip of the hat to Sarah

 

 

 

the gop obsession with a word they can't define

Not that it makes a difference to them..  as long as they can stir their base.

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But the funny thing about "woke" is that, while all Republicans hate it, they don't seem to have any idea how to define it. That was hilariously demonstrated in a viral video clip of conservative author Bethany Mandel falling completely apart when asked in an interview to define "woke," a concept she wrote an entire book denouncing. Mandel couldn't do it.

"So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that, um..." she stammered before admitting it "is something that's very hard to define," and then failing utterly to get close.

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