Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
- How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled. "NPR and PBS Frontline spent months digging into internal industry documents and interviewing top former officials. We found that the industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work — that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled — all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic."
- The Downside of Conveniently Signing In With Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Apple. There's some good advice in this article.
- How Cities Can Reclaim Their Streets From SUVs. "Pickup trucks and large sport-utility vehicles have flooded the streets of U.S. cities, a trend that’s been lethal for pedestrians and bike riders. Here’s what urban leaders could do about it."
- Twitter thread. "How a design flaw and poor maintenance in electrical transmission towers caused wildfires in California that cost 16.7 billion dollars and 85 lives."
- Real Neurons Are Noisy. Can Neural Implants Figure That Out? "The brain has adaptive noise filters that change with conditions, making signals 20 – 100 percent more accurate."
- How Hospitals' Profit Orientation Led to Covid-19 Unpreparedness. The perils for a for-profit healthcare system laid bare.
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