#saving

Giving Up on Saving the World

When I was 19, I decided I was going to save the world. Now, 25 years later, I’ve decided to give up. To explain why and what giving up means, we first need to go back to how I ever got into the world-saving business. As a kid, I loved computers, and I started teaching myself to program them when I was 8. By 16 I could write real programs that did interesting things, and it was also around this time I got into Linux. And since I was into Linux, that meant I read Slashdot . If you weren’t into Linux in the late 90s, you might not even know what Slashdot was. It still exists, but it’s a shell of

LessWrong · EN

Permanent daylight saving time has a dark side, scientists warn

A new study warns that permanent daylight saving time could force American children to make at least 2 billion additional school commutes in darkness, potentially increasing safety risks and disrupting their biological clocks. Researchers found that fatal crashes involving school-aged pedestrians were roughly twice as likely during dark mornings as after sunrise.

ScienceDaily · EN

From scooters to shampoo - the people saving hundreds from dumpster diving

The men and women who rummage through commercial bins to take clothes and other items.

BBC Science · EN