If life gives you trolleys…
Life-and-death thought experiments are correctly unsolvable.
If we ever face such situations in real life, we will be forced to choose, and will have to do so based on the very particular circumstances of each case. The only general lesson we learn from these thought experiments is that there is sometimes a tragic conflict between life and what makes life valuable in the first place.
Grmeč Monument to the Revolution.
An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.
Women too Awesome, Awful, or Offbeat for Kids' Movies.
The Top 50 Developer Tools of 2016.
Summer heat for the winter.
Can thermal solar energy be stored until wintertime? Yes, this is possible, using a cheap material like sodium lye. Within a European research consortium Empa scientists and their colleagues have spent four years studying this question by pitting three different techniques against each other.
Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening.
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Why won’t other countries follow suit?
Lists! Lists! Lists!
Mental Models Gabriel Weinberg Finds Repeatedly Useful.
Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore.
Conservatively, counting just the biggest chunks of staff time that went into it, the prison story cost roughly $350,000. The banner ads that appeared on the article brought in $5,000, give or take.
The Problem With AMP.
AMP is Google’s Last Hope for Relevance in Mobile Search.
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3. Track and control all devices at home and automate control.