US Cities as inspired by 4th Age YIMBYS in Middle Earth: 1. Denver: Caras Galadhon, in Lothlorien.

This implies that pop/rock/rap music is a higher art than the performance of classical works

Wild animal vaccines are a thing. In 1978, Switzerland airdropped 4,000 vaccine-laden chicken heads from helicopters over the Alps. And it worked: fox rabies was eliminated. For most of history, our approach to sick wild animals was to treat it as not our problem. Turns out that was a bad idea, because roughly 60% of human infectious diseases come from wild animals. So scientists got creative. Rabies was spreading through raccoons, foxes and coyotes despite culling hundreds of thousands of them — which, besides being grim, didn't even work. The solution? Hide vaccines inside food and let the animals vaccinate themselves while having no idea they're participating in a public health program. Switzerland went first. Their method of choice was vaccine-stuffed chicken heads, which were thrown out of helicoters. This eliminated fox rabies from the entire country by 1999. The US followed with fishmeal blocks dropped near dumpsters to vaccinate raccoons. They now distribute up to 10 million baits a year. This is how Texas wiped out two rabies variants entirely. Vaccinating wild animals is cost effective: every dollar spent saved up to $13 in human treatment costs. Now we're going further. Australia approved a koala chlamydia vaccine in 2025 (yes, koalas have chlamydia). Researchers are also developing anti-fungal gels for bats. And we are moving on the "philosophical" dimension too.Disease isn’t bad solely because it threatens a species’s survival but because it causes suffering. Every koala or raccoon that contracts a fatal illness spends days or weeks vomiting, seizing, blind, feverish, or paralyzed. None can hope for treatment. Then, alone and in pain, they die. We can prevent this!

American cars are too big, I am a certified hater of big cars. But we got this one right.

FINALLY museums giving the people what they want: reproductions of the artifacts

"I will literally have a seizure if I can't look at my phone"

Fuck this guy

"Providing Health Care is progressive” Health Care is economic activity that enriches doctors, and removing progressive regulations that protect worker and tenant health and safety so doctors can get rich faster is reactionary. Is Rick Scott progressive?

You only think about yourselves.

Let's do a little investigation courtesy of "Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers", a presentation by the The Skyscraper Museum by Bloom and Altwicker. First The Towers in Jackson Heights - a six story 1920s building development... low density? A very respectable 155pp / acre

Needs to be marine. Q comes down to predation habits how they scale with size The largest marine reptiles (icthyosaurs) were macropredators, hunting for big fish. This gets less efficient with size blue whales’ filter feeding is more efficient with size qed blue whale = GOAT

The weight loss seen with incretin mimetics should be the death knell for the carbohydrate-insulin model. The fact that our most successful non-surgical treatment for obesity INCREASES insulin secretion should tell you what you need to know.

Today in chart gore. Wonderful use of every shade of red, and how are those nation groupings sorted??

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards

usually don’t care what celebrities do or think but the singer of Paper Planes ending up like this would be like the guy who did ‘Blood on the Leaves’ becoming a nazi