Americans by and large don't understand how transformative high speed rail would be. There's a direct train from Barcelona, Spain to Paris, France. It takes 6 hours, tops out at almost 200 mph, and costs $40.
Not $400. $40.
That's like NYC to Columbus for the price of a meal.
As you may have heard The James Webb Space Telescope will be releasing "data from its first five targets" on Tuesday. I'm no astronomer but here's what I've gathered about what that means, and what we'll see.
YouTube is the greatest free university ever created.
But with 38,000,000+ channels it's hard to filter signal from the noise.
Here are 20 channels that will make you smarter:
Thank god the Post Office, libraries, Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, food stamps and National Parks already exist because if any of these things were proposed today they'd be immediately shot down as a socialist handout or blocked by an affected corporation
@byuanthro101 @TA_Scott_ The book "The Song Poet" was not only a beautiful story, but also really helped open my eyes to the power culture has on helping people get through even the hardest things in life!
@TA_Scott_ This quote helped me to see exactly the kind of men and women the Hmong refugees were, sacrifice so much for the promise of a better future for their posterity! Very humbling to read.