“The truth is that many future poets, novelists, and screenwriters are not likely to be straight-A students, either in high school or in college. The arts through which they will discover themselves prize creativity, originality, and intensity above academic performance; they value introspection above extroversion, insight above rote learning.”
Tag: 12.12
Chaos Theory (It’s Safer)
What makes driving safer? Well yeah, better-designed cars. But better roads and street markings and traffic lights and speed limits and signs, right? Well maybe not entirely true. One traffic engineer says simplifying roadways – taking away traffic lights and restrictive signs might be a better way to ultimately improve the safety of our roads. “In the US, traffic engineers are beginning to rethink the dictum that the car is king and pedestrians are well advised to get the hell off the road.”