Whether it's a huge federal government or a small village, democracy brings us the never-ending tension between following rules and procedures and actually getting things done. The yard of the municipal animal shelter in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/05/The-Woes-of-Small-Town-Bureaucracy/My local hospital recently installed a system of pneumatic tubes. They send test samples to the lab and deliver drugs from the pharmacy with it, all in one building. This is a quantum leap above that. Tom Scott is at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/05/The-Rabbit-Line-Carries-Radioactive-Isotopes-Underground-in-Vancouver/Embed from Getty ImagesBy 1933, it was clear that Prohibition, the national experiment with outlawing the transport and sale of alcoholic beverages, was a failure. Although it was never illegal to drink, it had been il...
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