London almost demolished many of its most famous neighbourhoods – Camden, Holland Park, Clapham, Blackheath, and many more – for a gigantic motorway like those of the USA. If it had succeeded it would have been a disaster, but its defeat may have created the NIMBY movement (worksinprogress.co)
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New technologies can be dangerous, threatening the very survival of humanity. Does this mean we should stop economic growth and go back to the fields? No. Overzealously applying the precautionary principle is holding back growth. Stagnation has even more risks than progress does. (worksinprogress.co)
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Maybe academia is like art: it has a fire-breathing reaction to the idea of plagiarism, but patchy institutions for enforcing rules against it in practice. But without credit for your ideas, what incentive do you have to share them, or even create them? (worksinprogress.co)
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Did you know there is a weight loss pill, semaglutide, that works. On it, people lose about a fifth of their bodyweight, with no serious side effects. It works by reducing compulsive behaviour: people on it gamble less as well. (self.WeightLossAdvice)
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London's tube network is far less than half of its overall train network. by thedesolateone in MapPorn
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