One of Britain’s largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed can be found in the unlikeliest of locations: a vast former youth hostel in a pretty corner of the Yorkshire Dales. Meticulously sorted into subject areas, from naval history to 19th-century literature, architecture to zoology, over 150,000 volumes fill some 25 high-ceilinged rooms spread over four floors. To withstand the sheer weight of all those hardbacks, the building, which began life as a prep school in c1878, must surely be as strong as a Romanesque church.

Just like none of the buildings captured by F.A. Schwartz survived beyond the end of the nineteenth century, neither did the above Straßenmöbel make it for much longer. You might occasionally stumble upon one or the other gaslight but if so, cherish the sight – they are as good as gone, too.

It was a turbulent century of ideological struggles; the aristocracy survived by adapting to new political structures and by the absorption of an emerging bourgeoisie.

Can the biggest biotech outcomes come from repurposed drugs? “The most fruitful basis of the discovery of a new drug is to start with an old drug”, James Black (Nobel Laureate). Perhaps you can refuse to spend any money on early R&D and safety studies, and instead weaponize ChatGPT to index all the possible mechanisms in all the possible diseases and drugs that can potentially target those. I’ve heard this pitch from at least 4 different friends in the past 3 months, so I suspect many people are pursuing this avenue now, or some other approach to repurposing.

AdBlue is a diesel exhaust fluid used to reduce harmful emissions from diesel-powered vehicles. It is a legal requirement for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) over 7.5 tonnes and diesel engines fitted with selective catalytic reduction (SCR). The use of AdBlue became more widespread with the introduction of Euro 6 emission standards in September 2015, which imposed stricter limits on nitrogen oxide emissions. As a result, diesel cars produced from this date onwards are subject to these laws and are typically fitted with AdBlue tanks.

Roughly a year and a half later, after what Wall called “a long, drawn-out battle” over lighting, city departments finished reviewing the project, moving it closer to construction. Wall said he needs a building permit — which has yet to be issued — to move forward with demolishing the parking garage as part of the new development.

Trader hired one of the builders featured on “Container Homes” but now thinks the company, MODS International, never really intended to build the home. It was supposed to cost $165,000 and be done by the end of 2021. Ultimately, all the company did before walking away was pour a foundation and plunk the five containers — two 40-foot-long ones for the first floor and three 20-foot-long ones for the second — on top of it.

Elizabeth Warren, Sept 16, 2024: “Fed must cut by 75bps on Sept 18” (the Fed cut by 50bps two days later).

Elizabeth Warren, Sept 4, 2025 to Stephen Miran: “What you are doing (by pushing for lower rates) will take an axe to Fed independence”

Vector Tiles are small files that also represent geographic features, similar to GeoJSON. The key difference is that they represent a specific sector, a tile (thus the name), at a specific zoom. That means if I want to display a map of the world with Vector Tiles, it will actually be a collection of square tiles pieced together. Imagine taking a globe and cutting it up in multiple squares – that’s what vector tiles are (we’ll ignore distortion and projections for now, that’ll be a post for another time).

You are NOT counted as “vaccinated” until 2 weeks after your 2nd shot. For the first 6 weeks, the vaccine is ineffective. Infection & death rates rise. But all those deaths are attributed to the “unvaccinated” group.

Now imagine if SpaceX could’ve had the freedom to not worry about flying customer payloads to get data during Falcon 9’s reusability campaign. Imagine if they could’ve tested engine out procedures or push booster reentry profiles, or try hot staging, or what have you.

Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen.

Can this vehicle save the German Auto Industry?