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"There are two dangers of measuring happiness along just one axis. The first is that you will be easily disappointed, because the unbalanced approach to maximizing a single variable increases the chance that you will end up behind.
And the second is that you might actually succeed in hitting a limit. And then where will you find your happiness?"

"Instead of worrying that emoji is replacing competent language use, we can celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language."

"Australia's nine-year "millennial drought" transformed attitudes toward water. Could California duplicate the gains without the pain?"

"The Farm, as it was known, was a social-studies experiment established by UC Irvine in 1968, in which members of indigenous groups from Samoa, Mexico and Guatemala were invited to inhabit the old Irvine Ranch buildings adjacent to the campus so that they could teach scientists and university students about their ways of life."
Let's just say my experience at UCI was *much* different!

"There was a time in the not-too-distant past when the average Angeleno didn’t know a River ran through their city. Since our inception, FoLAR has successfully pioneered the movement to bring the River back to life for the benefit of all Angelenos and urban wildlife."

"Urban vernal marsh wetlife sponsored by a successful partnership of life, community, and the city of Torrance."
I've hiked here dozens of times. https://hyperborea.org/reviews/places/madrona-marsh/

"Steven Appleton bought 4.5 acres smack in the middle of the L.A. River. Private land in a public waterway comes with few rights, but he's hoping one of them is to tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "No more Roundup!""

"One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework."

A "Kremlin-Linked Firm" invested millions in Kentucky. Because of course they did.
Update I wonder if there's any follow-up info on this.