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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms—up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested—probably once belonged to Shakespeare.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
For Mises, the challenge is how to allocate intermediate goods to producers of final goods. That’s not something companies like Walmart and Amazon do, for the simple reason that these companies distribute goods rather than make them. The firms supplying pencils to Amazon and Walmart still rely on market signals to figure out the best way to make their product.
How to Make a Pencil
logicmag.io
The 1940s-era research supporting the 85th percentile relied on self-reported crash data and was conducted on two-lane rural highways, devoid of multimodal activity.
Designed to Fail | National Association of City Transportation Officials
nacto.org
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