Stairways that have gaps have different proportions, with more overlap between each step.

These are different. There is no overlap, and the riser for each step is glass, which makes them more transparent from below than other steps with gaps.

Also, stairways in gaps are more commonly found in areas with less traffic, not over a large, open lobby area.

Stupid design. Shouldn't have made it all the way to production. Fix it.

Ryan S

I'm sure genetics is a big factor in fitness, but it's not the only factor. And you would still need to take fairly large gene samples from a variety of populations and locations, to separate the genetic factors from the environmental ones.

Short of that, factors like behavior, and more easily measurable traits, like obesity, are going to be the most useful data.

And while BMI is pretty bunk as an absolute obesity measure, especially for people with muscular builds, it's still a useful variable. Lower BMI still correlates to fitness in large groups of people, since muscular builds are a relative minority in most representative samples.

Also, a person's fitness is not set in stone at birth. And until we engage in genetic engineering on ourselves, it would behoove us to focus on the behavioral factors at play. There's an obesity epidemic on, you know... and unless you think that there has been a genetic mutation in the last 100 years, I think it's our major improvement in prosperity, and the huge behavioral shifts in the last few generations that are responsible.

Finally, most of the areas compared are not ones of genetic isolation. I can testify anecdotally, that since moving from San Diego to Portland, my lifestyle has changed markedly in response to the different environment. The food tends to be fresher and healthier here, and people are much more active and fit. I lost weight and got markedly fitter since I've moved here.

You can use a giant saw to cut a hole around a door, and walk right it. Cool!

Shoot a carton of milk, and pour yourself a glass. Yay!

Prying the top of your desk off with a crowbar to reach into the top drawer is dramatic. Wow!

I'm counting like 18 or 19 things, without the backpack or clothes he's wearing, and counting the socks as 1 thing.

Aside from this though, the whole concept of minimalism as it plays out is pure BS, because all the person is really doing is borrowing or renting the same possessions the rest of us borrow, rent, or own.

I mean, I could live at a hotel, eat all my meals from restaurants, use the hotel's appliances, computers, television, power grid, information network, and use the roads and transportation infrastructure. And own nothing more than 2 sets of clothing.

Does that make me a minimalist? No.

Being less consumer-driven is nice. Being efficient is nice. But this is frankly a bit consumer driven, and more about a smug aesthetic than any useful or interesting contribution.

Well, if he's in Paris, and his friends are in Brazil (Portuguese) and Suriname (Dutch), which border French Guyana (part of France), then it would be 1PM in Paris.

Apparently no one reads:

"On that day, Chief Duffy said he was not scheduled to work but decided to check on citizen complaints about possible drug activity in a part of West Scranton.

While driving through the area, he arrested a man who had an outstanding bench warrant issued by Lackawanna County Court. The chief also searched the man and allegedly found he possessed a marijuana joint and drug paraphernalia, leading to the man's arrest on drug charges."

It wasn't spontaneous law-enforcement.

This sort of activity undermines the employer-union contracts.

You could have several people who were not contracted to make arrests as part of their job description, go out on their off time, making arrests, and then use it to justify laying off several union officers.

Why use a bookshelf, or look at a tree, when you can pay more for one thing that doesn't serve either purpose as well?

Sure, it was poor for a couple hundred years. But that wasn't its entire identity.

It's like showing us pictures of people in Harlem in the '80s and telling us that it's a peak into the world that inspired Langston Hughes.

Sure, there were plenty of black people living there the whole time, but it's still inaccurate.

It's kind of hard for this to be a peak into the world that inspired Dickens, when the pictures are from 40 years after his death...

I don't know if you needed to pick up a music theory book to know this... any one who's listened to a kid play "Heart and Soul" on the piano (from 1938) has internalized those changes, and can spot them as easily as the good old Rock and Roll (err... Glenn Miller) I-IV-V progression....

Also, just because it's a very common progression, doesn't make it the "only" progression by any stretch.

It does not mimic photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis is the use of sunlight to convert CO2 into organic compounds (like sugar).

It uses sunlight to accomplish a completely different task - harvesting hydrogen from water. The process is known as photoelectrolysis.

As any person who has studied this before can tell you, it would cost more to administer a licensing program than you would get in revenue.

NYC is just blaming cyclists for their traffic issues.

I think it's a case of Neatorama trying to put 'controversial' posts up to trigger comment debate and increase ratings.

Re: Shutter Island

I was pretty pissed off after the first viewing, because, with the exception of Fight Club, I generally hate AIYH movies.

However, on repeat viewings, Shutter Island reveals some interesting stuff.

First, it's really interesting to watch the scenes play out with the knowledge that the MC is insane. The clues are all there.

Second, there's a subtext about holocaust denial-ism that is really interesting.

I get free gas, work 80 hours per week, and my dad is a smurf.