@ NickPxMP "39 per cent of the French population would like an unelected strongman in charge." WTAF? People don't like thinking about difficult things and look for someone who can provide s… (View Post)

I never got beyond the first two episodes of season 1. Terrible. I don't need my TV to be groundbreaking, or even the stuff aficionados will talking about for years to come. Just something well-writt… (View Post)

Interesting article in the Atlantic. Sounds like things are extremely grim for the average Russian grunt in Ukraine. Nothing we did not know, of course, but it sounds even worse than I imagined: http… (View Post)

Looks like something from Blake’s Seven. I read somewhere that the human brain is most comforted/satisfied when seeing fractals (i.e. what we see in natural environments) and that the geometric, non-… (View Post)

That was the founding error. But in designing towns and buildings, we need to go further than just treat people as people, and understand how we see the world, interact with the environment, and the … (View Post)