Cipolla’s five basic laws of human stupidity

Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses...

Reuse Clothing issues

I knew the number was low, but I was surprised that only 15% of discarded textiles was recycled or reused, while the rest is sent to landfills or incinerators.  Which always makes taking a high value on donated goods difficult.  Shipping overstock overseas I knew...

Electric Cars

With the planned proliferation of electric vehicles coming onto the market by the end of the decade, how are they all going to be charged? Throughout the US we have electric grid reliability issues. Adverse weather conditions in the central U.S. will be 1.7% higher...

Public Ransomware

States are introducing bans on ransomware payments by public agencies that get hit by this increasingly common cyberattack.  This is an attempt to remove the low hanging fruit, typically municipalities have limited and poor security, which have made them easy targets....

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