RT @KirkegaardEmil@twitter.com:
How did the Icelanders get so strong? Well, for 100s of years, it appears wages on fishing ships was linked to physical strength via the lifting heavy stones test.
How did the Icelanders get so strong? Well, for 100s of years, it appears wages on fishing ships was linked to physical strength via the lifting heavy stones test.
Life needs boundaries: “Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Christianity is the only frame which has preserved the pleasure of Paganism. We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff’s edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries. But the walls were knocked down, leaving the naked peril of the precipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they were all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had ceased.” ― G.K. Chesterton
They created the color guidelines for buildings in Visby, Gotland, Sweden. Possibly the most beautiful city in Scandinavia. https://gotland.se/download/18.77d939c18afea4fb126634/1697016616395/F%C3%A4rgtraditioner%20i%20Visby%20innerstad.pdf
RT @KirkegaardEmil@twitter.com:
UC Berkeley has a new super important finding. It turns out that violent people are still violent when they move somewhere else. Neither the press release/summary and the article has any mentions of genetics.
UC Berkeley has a new super important finding. It turns out that violent people are still violent when they move somewhere else. Neither the press release/summary and the article has any mentions of genetics.
The WH is obviously correct here, and all Western media and politicians can do is the usual name-calling instead of doing even the bare minimum of fact checking. Spain is an extraordinary example in itself. But it isn't only Europe. Japan and Australia/NZ are also being targeted. https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-05/trump-tells-europe-it-is-facing-civilizational-erasure.html
Infrastructure disappear, buildings disappear, even memories disappear. In one hundred years many of our developments and new towns will have faded away for ever as even the last digital records of them ever existing quietly dies on some hard drive in an attic.
You like astrophysics? Thank an English Dominican Friar. https://theconversation.com/how-a-medieval-oxford-friar-used-light-and-colour-to-find-out-what-stars-and-planets-are-made-of-262652
"We have discovered the only insect native to Antarctica!" "We regret to inform you that it is getting sick from eating micro-plastics." https://news.mgcafe.uky.edu/article/university-kentucky-finds-antarcticas-toughest-insect-already-eating-microplastics
At @StrongTowns, @Edward_Erfurt writes about zoning as a homage to Léon Krier. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025-12-09-zoning-and-the-erosion-of-civic-life-notes-inspired-by-leon-krier
"The study estimates that 2,406 buildings in Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai are already at high risk of structural damage. If current subsidence trends continue, over 23,000 buildings could face a very high risk within the next 50 years." https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/09/science-sinking-Indian-megacities.html
They think we can have order without hierarchy. They believe we can have progress without vision. They believe in education without learning, in health care with neither health nor care. They believe we can have safety with vigilance and law without justice. They ask for freedom without accepting obligations. Yet they will receive the opposite of everything they ask for. Theirs are the ruins, and all we can do is to remain standing.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want more children and more families you give young men a higher income.