Month: April 2019

Nuclear vs Solar

Solar is 50% worse than nuclear for lifetime CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour. Nuclear and wind tie for the best.

Alewife opens Brewery

In the coming months, Alewife Brewing Company will start making beer in a 750 m2 1-story warehouse on 39th Street just off Skillman Avenue in the neighborhood—its first-ever brewery.

Owning 150 things

Sasaki Fumio has been an extreme minimalist for 5 years. He wrote a book called Goodbye, Things. He owns 150 things, including his soy sauce and vinegar bottle.

Green BQE

Bjarke Ingels Group has released details of transforming a 6-lane highway into a connected realm between the city and waterfront. The scheme centers on the Robert Moses-designed Brooklyn Queens Expressway. As officials prepare to carry out needed repairs on the highway, existing proposals fail to address the barrier created by the infrastructure, dividing the city and waterfront. BIG’s scheme outlines how the Expressway could be turned into parkland, accommodating vehicular traffic without compromising on the quality of public space. The first step in the BIG scheme is to construct an at-grade roadway along Furman Street and Brooklyn Bridge Park covered with a simple deck structure. The deck provides a platform for adding significant new parkland along the underused corridor while connecting the Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park with a series of crisscrossing rampways, greenery, and park amenities. Local park access is accommodated on a meandering parkway, while space is created for a potential spur of the nearby light-rail line. The deck also extends south to Atlantic Avenue, creating a new crossing and urban nexus that serves as an introduction to the linear park.

Lead Gen Spam

When you dial any of the listings you are put through to a sophisticated automated call tree that asks the same qualifying questions each time: if you already have insurance or no if you have been continuously insured for 12 months or no what is your zip code which insurance carrier you currently have Based on the answers the system sends you along to an insurance agent that can sell you a competing product. The idea is that if you already have Allstate and are calling for “cheap car insurance” you must want a different brand.

Genealogy of Blue

Blue was once little-known in the Western palette. Homer’s sea was “wine dark”; blue would not be used as water’s color until the 17th century. It has evolved from its original association with warmth, heat, barbarism, and the creatures of the underworld, to its current association with calm, peace, and reverie

Finance Words

use liquidity when you don’t have a lot of cash.

Yang Bid Very 21st Century

In the history of politicking, few politicians have publicly declared what to do about America’s crumbling malls, or how to provide free marriage counseling for all, or how to make filing taxes fun. But Andrew Yang, who’s gunning to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, certainly has—and those are the more minor concerns among a dizzying list of 80 policy positions on his campaign website.

also has geoengineering, UBI and many other things.