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writing, film, decision analysis, criminal justice, wildlife habitat management, nuance advocacy & basketball (#FearTheDeer). Likes=bookmarks & RTs ≠ agreement
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Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 More importantly, at 16, most pupils can solve a quadratic equation. At 32, few can. Compulsory maths lessons are therefore a vast economic inefficiency and a vast moral calamity. There is no justification for wasting people's lives like this.
The US spent 70 years building a country optimized for cars instead of people. This is what that looks like at full resolution. MetLife Stadium sits on 2.1 million square feet of parking. 28,000 spaces. The parking lots are larger than the stadium itself. The entire Meadowlands
Ross Barkan When the telephone was invented, 99% of the country had no use for it. The technology was patented in 1876. Three years later, there were basically no telephones in existence. Thirty years later, there were basically no telephones. Household adoption of telephones didn't pass 50%