Scooters? Not a New Idea

...d manufactured by the Autoped Company of Long Island City, New York between 1915 to 1921. It was propelled by a 4-stroke, 155 cc engine. After the autoped company went out of business Krupp made a version in Germany between 1919 to 1922. I going to take a wild guess that it didn’t catch on for two reasons: car companies successfully bribed city governments to design our roads to favor cars and push out any competition and the fact that a motorcycl...

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Saturday Tweets: RIP Mary Oliver

...ey. Rare front page of the Los Angeles Times Annual Midwinter, from January 1915@KCET @JDevis @ginapollack @LAFarmGirl @RachelSurls #LAFoodways pic.twitter.com/Q3EyWeUWJo — ADSAUSAGE (@adsausage) January 17, 2019 Russian company wants to put giant ads in low-Earth orbit; they could display corporate logos “and other brand emblems, as well as allow governments to flash urgent notifications during emergencies.” https://t.co/PljGlFFhOv pic.twitter.co...

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Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

...2018 Here's raw footage of the Barney balloon getting destroyed in the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade… pic.twitter.com/zTBZjoYXOj — Tanooki Joe (@TanookiKuribo) November 22, 2018 Very good agroecology thread here! https://t.co/j1jGfbPE8o — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn) November 21, 2018 We're holding a major town hall on Dec. 3 to talk about one of the most pressing global crises facing us today: climate change. Will you be...

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Saturday Tweets: A Week of Strange Links

...y the year 2020 https://t.co/Si466o5Qde — Xeni (@xeni) March 31, 2016 This page of the 12th-c. Bible of Stephen Harding (now digitised by @BMDijonPat), is a real medieval comic book. pic.twitter.com/eOm5cFcDd9 — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) March 31, 2016 #Netherlands sets guidance reducing #meat consumption to twice weekly https://t.co/F68kuFjikj @NatGeoFood @hdbyrne pic.twitter.com/pZ9nPJ8xEc — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) March 30, 2016 An...

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