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[conuly]

Before Avocado Toast, There Was Snowflake Toast

The Soviet Military Secretly Mapped the Entire World

How 260 Tons of Thanksgiving Leftovers Gave Birth to an Industry

Even Hey Arnold's Neighborhood Is Gentrifying Now

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books

U.K. Water Companies Sometimes Use Dowsing Rods To Find Pipes

What Happens When a School Stops Arresting Kids for Throwing Skittles

The Treasures Blooming in Canada’s Largest Seed Catalog Archive

How Mammoth Poop Gave Us Pumpkin Pie

R. Crumb’s lowly years cranking out cards for American Greetings

What grosses out a chimpanzee? The origins of disgust

Why the Nazi Party Loved Decaf Coffee

12 Pieces of 100-Year-Old Advice for Dealing With Your In-Laws

New approach to studying chromosomes' centers may reveal link to Down syndrome and more

The Switch to Outdoor LED Lighting Has Completely Backfired

New biology of Alzheimer's disease described by researchers

Amazon's Last Mile

Here's What You Need to Know About That Mysterious Radiation Cloud Over Europe

The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else

The story of the Russian mob in Spain—and the detectives who spent years trying to bring them down.

Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens

The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades

‘My mother was sold from me’: After slavery, the desperate search for loved ones in ‘last seen ads’

Brain pathway makes head and face pain very draining

The Serial-Killer Detector

How big is the DMZ?

New Numbers On Child Labor Are Not Encouraging

What was remarkable in Air Force general's comments on nukes

10,000 people died in the past year while stuck in a backlog of judges’ disability cases.

The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos’

Harvey Weinstein’s Secret Settlements

Will the Prison Rape Epidemic Ever Have Its Weinstein Moment?

After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing

Comments

[randomdreams]

I work in the LED lighting world, and yes, this exactly echoes what we've found: when you give people less energy used for the same amount of light, they choose more light rather than less energy.
Another, really excellent, way to reduce usage that is particularly LED-specific, is to have all your outdoor lighting smart enough to turn down to 10% illumination (which will appear to be about half the dimness) when nobody is near, and then light up to full brightness when a car/cyclist/pedestrian is within 50 meters. That's not something previous generations of outdoor area lighting could do, because they couldn't dim well nor could they increase illumination quickly.

[conuly]

That seems like a great idea.

[8hyenas]

When I was putting in a fence I called my water company out to find the lines, and he used a dowsing rod. He said the older pipes are all PVC, but the newer ones are laid with a copper wire so they can use a detector. I put the fence posts where he said and didn't hit the line.

He was very matter of fact about doing magic.

[conuly]

Amazing.

[wendelah1]

The Big Data meets Big Brother article was pretty terrifying. The serial killer piece was great, too. Next up is the Alzheimer's story.

I always thought I was a fast reader but I don't get through even 10% of your links. I have no idea how you find the time to read everything that you do.

[conuly]

I am also a fast reader, and sometimes I do skim. (But then, I also read links I don't post up, so....)