Month: May 2018

Source: The Intersection of Design & Disability at Home with Rebekah Taussig – Design*Sponge

https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/a-2-year-stanford-study-shows-astonishing-productivity-boost-of-working-from-home.html

https://www.gwern.net/Complement

https://www.citylab.com/amp/article/559262/

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it’s telling that, even while transit agencies are being told to be more like Uber and Lyft, Uber and Lyft are increasingly mimicking buses. Both companies now have “shuttle” or “line” services that operate along preset routes with preset stops during peak commuter hours, just like a bus. It’s existential to the future of these start-ups that they stop subsidizing high-end solo rides and instead cram in the maximum number of riders per vehicle—in order words, that they reproduce a bus. The basic model—a big moving container of people on a fixed route—has never stopped working.

Source: Homeschooling’s Harms: Lessons from Economics – viewcontent.cgi

Homeschooling as an extreme form of private school / school choice, which harms public school systems.

Source: Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law | Quanta Magazine

https://www.sadanduseless.com/bumblebutts/

https://mobile.twitter.com/BisHilarious/status/993609662330093568?s=19

http://www.okayafrica.com/here-are-the-10-best-african-films-of-all-time-according-to-top-international-critics/

http://www.trailpeak.com/trail-Killarney-Lake-near-Saanich-BC-6524