I happen to PREFER low population density, yet he used it as a big black-mark. Why? Anybody really think people are at their happiest when packed-in like sardines?
And his opinions on weather seem backwards to me. I'd much rather have excessively hot summers than long and freezing winters. That's not just me, the entire US population continues shifting south and westward every year. Arizona is a strange choice, when Phoenix is such a huge and successful metropolis, with many tech companies building facilities there... sort of a low-rent Silicon Valley satellite.
Most USB drives come formatted for Windows. It's understandable that Linux doesn't always have the best support for another OS's proprietary file systems. If you reformat it using a journaling Linux file system (Ext3/Ext4/Reiser/XFS/JFS/BTR/etc.), corruption is a thing of the past, and the system will just rollback the journal automatically every time you attach it. It'll work nicely on Linux, while Windows will completely refuse to read it, never-mind checking and repairing it. Windows is clearly the deficient one.
The audience won't understand. Station wagons haven't been used as ambulances in quite a few decades now. I guess it's iconic enough that they couldn't completely change it, but the joke is long dead and buried.
BBC spouts some real nonsense from time to time, and this is one of those. Up til 1880, the MAJORITY of the US workforce were farmers. There were farms everywhere, and those farmers drank (and sold) plenty of milk. Converting milk into cheese is a huge amount of wasted effort compared to just consuming it directly when possible, so you only do that for the excess supply. If not for the fact that our European ancestors SURVIVED on the calories they got from milk, we'd all be lactose intolerant, today. If it was all cheese (which is lower in lactose), the gene mutation which caused adult lactase production wouldn't have spread so prolifically through the population.
There may have been a dip in milk consumption at the start of urbanization, when increasing numbers of people couldn't get fresh milk locally, but their claim is much more sweeping and ridiculous than that... There were some periods in western history where adults mostly drank alcoholic beverages (small beer, wine, grog, etc.), before we discovered other ways to make polluted water safe to drink, but that has nothing specifically to do with milk.
If you dig several layers down, in the US, you know what you find? Dirt, dried bison poop, more dirt, and NOTHING ELSE. History is a bit different, here... we're still putting down the first-draft.
I like low-flow aerators on kitchen sinks, too... I remove the flow limiter (pretty easy), then adjust the shut-off valve to control it. A 0.5GPM aerator spraying nearly 1GPM is a bit like a pressure-washer, much better for cleaning dishes, but has to be adjusted just below the point of splashing water back up all over you and the floor...
I fill-up 1gal containers all the time, it just takes longer. I set them in the sink, turn on the water, and do other things while they fill-up. It does take 2-3 times as long, but I don't do things like fill-up the sink that often, and the higher pressure spray means a lot more bubbles than normal, too. Anything huge, like a bucket, I fill-up in my bathtub now. Works nicely.
Interesting ideas, but all my bathrooms would be too small for individual doors separating the toilet, shower, etc. Frankly, two small bathrooms would accomplish the same goal, better, and in less space. Their design only really makes (some) sense when your toilet and bathtub are ridiculously expensive high-tech nightmares.
The lower-flow the aerator, the warmer the cold water is (and the cooler the hot water is). After a couple years using 0.5 GPM aerators, I no longer EVER touch the HOT handle. There are even 0.35 GPM aerators available on Amazon, but more expensive.
Well, the papa bear's rock was too large, and the mama bear's rock was too small, but the baby bear's rock was *just right*...
And his opinions on weather seem backwards to me. I'd much rather have excessively hot summers than long and freezing winters. That's not just me, the entire US population continues shifting south and westward every year. Arizona is a strange choice, when Phoenix is such a huge and successful metropolis, with many tech companies building facilities there... sort of a low-rent Silicon Valley satellite.
https://youtu.be/7R5A0pg4oN8
There may have been a dip in milk consumption at the start of urbanization, when increasing numbers of people couldn't get fresh milk locally, but their claim is much more sweeping and ridiculous than that... There were some periods in western history where adults mostly drank alcoholic beverages (small beer, wine, grog, etc.), before we discovered other ways to make polluted water safe to drink, but that has nothing specifically to do with milk.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk#Industrialization
* http://www.livescience.com/37649-why-people-drink-milk-benefits.html
I fill-up 1gal containers all the time, it just takes longer. I set them in the sink, turn on the water, and do other things while they fill-up. It does take 2-3 times as long, but I don't do things like fill-up the sink that often, and the higher pressure spray means a lot more bubbles than normal, too. Anything huge, like a bucket, I fill-up in my bathtub now. Works nicely.