Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Tuesday Links

They Have Learned Nothing 

The Gods Were the Good Guys All Along "Norse mythology is not an open-source fantasy system designed for entertainment studios to generate franchise material. It’s a collection of ancient stories that reflect an ancient belief system. While the stories themselves can be entertaining, the belief system did not exist solely for entertainment purposes. It existed for the same reason all religions do: to provide a framework for understanding and interacting with the world."

The War on Sex Differences Part II 

Eadric Streona The villain meets a fitting end. The question is why did Edmund keep trusting this guy?  Fool me twice, etc.  The word gemot near the end is related to Moot, if that gives it away for you. 

 Gerrymandering?  On the one hand, Utah is about 2:1 Republican overall, so however one draws the districts is likely to result in GOP majorities.  OTOH, They have four House seats and you could draw a majority Democratic district around SLC, which is not an unreasonable way to envision the state. 

Why the Developing World Needs Wider Streets  Cities are the engines of growth and gridlock screws them up

 

 

 

1 comment:

james said...

The link says Dakar devotes 14% of its surface area to roads. Some of those roads are modern highways with sand-blown pedestrian overpasses as a crossing option, some are French colonial wide roads that once may have been tree lined, and others are narrow streets, some cobbled and some dirt. All get clogged, of course. On one colonial wide road, with vendors lined along the edge of the road and the road proper completely stuffed, our driver left the road, drove behind the line of vendor stands, and drove down the wide area between the stands and the buildings, dodging and being dodged by pedestrians who were less numerous at that hour than the cars.