A country which high speed rail takes 18 years to environmentally clear and data centers the size of Manhattan are cleared in a month. Someone help me reconcile this?
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The 92nd street Y, to their eternal glory, has uploaded hundreds of recordings of speakers who have graced their stage.
We are talking T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson (!), Mary McCarthy, Irving Howe, and much more.
Check it out here!
https://t.co/3LDedFzMUR
“Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning.”
This is a lovely point about the value of something we often deride as valueless, from @morbidorigin. https://t.co/bJFSyP7W7I
In this game between two pubic colleges one head coach made $8 million last year, the other made $11 million, and the stealth bomber flying over their game cost $737 million to build and $7 million to operate every year.
We can build mid-rise apartment buildings extraordinarily well if we're considerate in how we design them.
There are 170 apartments in this Stockholm project oriented around a courtyard, with the structure gradually rising from 2 stories in the front to more than 10 at the back