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To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US?
  • To give some comparison, here are my distances. Important to note that I intentionally moved somewhere in my town with walkability in mind.

    To the nearest convenience store: 280m
    To the nearest chain supermarket: 1.7km
    To the bus stop: 260m
    To the nearest park: 240m
    To the nearest big supermarket: 2.4km
    To the nearest library: 1.2km
    To the nearest train station: 85km

    Access to a bus stop doesn’t really matter either as it usually is faster to walk than to wait for the bus to arrive, unless it is long distance in which I would just drive.

  • New idea for a language course
  • People really underrate the difficulty of learning not a language but language itself. Concepts learned in one language can transfer over to other languages, but when you learn your first language, you have to learn the concepts for the first time in addition to the word. Personally, I am of the opinion that the critical period in learning is mostly a biproduce of learning over time and less a special feature of a brain’s age. The cortex naturally will organize around the incoming sensory information coming in, so over time the “increased plasticity” of newborn brains will reduce as it becomes increasingly more fitted to their experiences.

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