Figure 3. US natural gas production and consumption, based on data from the2023 Statistical Review of World Energyby the Energy Institute. Many changes have taken place since gas prices fell. The US electrical system has significantly reduced its reliance on coal and instead increased its utilizati...
Hotels such as those in Victoria have prevented the cataclysmic levels of disease transmission that were feared among homeless people during the coronavirus outbreak. Death rates from Covid-19 have been highest in areas with the worst homelessness problems — Newham, the borough that includes Bonny ...
When the kids were little, I played a lot of jokes on them, that part of me contained an element of my family’s wickedness. When the kids were in primary school, I was walking through the Adelaide Arcade and saw the joke shop on the Gays Arcade corner. I called it the joke shop...
Luc Montagnier’s ego dissolution with age may have provided increased empathy for other’s seeking alternative hypotheses for not so well understood human diseases and suffering. Is it likely Nobel laureate well-being increases when helping other’s who are desperate for a paradigm shift? @ Orac...
…drinking before work is fairly taboo in Britain, and most people wait until at least lunchtime. Back in the day, though, workmen would easily drink six to eight pints of beer every day, says Jennings. For what else could they drink? The water often came from sewage-ridden sources such...
The foundation did not add paid staff to meet that new bench mark. The only recorded change was a tiny one: Matilda Simon, one of Musk’s family-office employees, who also serves as one of the foundation’s three volunteer board members, increased her workload from 0 hours to 0.1 ...
Henry Chigama, president and chief executive officer of EatOut Movement, a startup initiative meant to fight homelessness and poverty, says the pandemic has dried up resources. “When COVID-19 began, companies and individuals were able and willing to donate items which we then gave to...
“All the public libraries, all the public buildings, all the coffee shops — we're probably down thousands of restrooms,” said Alison Eisinger, executive director of the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness. “There's no way to make up for that with handwashing stations and...