Are you in the mood for some rare optimistic climate news? The Rocky Mountain Institute released a report today forecasting that solar and wind are growing so fast and getting so cheap that they're now on track to produce 30% of all electricity by 2030 and upwards of 70-85% by 2050: If we can do ...continue reading "Net zero by 2050?"
Excess mortality is generally considered a better guide to COVID deaths than actual counts of COVID deaths themselves, which are subject to considerable interpretation and dispute. Here are the excess mortality rates for Scandinavia, the US, and a bunch of large European countries: Sweden is at the very bottom. There's only one country that's noticeably ...continue reading "I guess Sweden didn’t kill everyone after all"
A man who admitted in court that he’s a killer received an unusual plea deal Thursday. Moments after Darin Schmidt, now 37, admitted his crime, he learned he’ll soon be eligible for parole.
St. Louis area Schnuck Markets in Missouri and Illinois have a new frozen pizza. The exclusive deal with Every True Tiger Brands features the image of three Mizzou football players on the label.
The interim executive director of the East St Louis Housing Authority has been suspended following a You Paid For It expose on horrendous conditions in an apartment in the Gompers Housing Project.
Out of all the purveyors of facial recognition tech, Clearview is by far the sketchiest. It has compiled billions of photos and other personal info by doing little more than scraping the internet of anything that isn’t locked down. Web scraping isn’t inherently evil, but Clearview certainly makes scraping appear malicious. There are any number […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Developers are building a bigger hotel on a prominent corner in Clayton but have dropped plans to add condominiums. The updated plans for the corner of South Central Avenue and Forsyth Boulevard now include a 20-story, 245-room hotel, a jazz club and restaurant with outdoor space. Developers Midas and Green Street […]
Bond Architects has welcomed a new Project Architect, Lisa Griffin (AIA LEED Green Associate), and a new Junior Interior Designer, Nicole Grinberg (WELL AP) onto their design team. Lisa Griffin, AIA, LEED Green Associate, has joined Bond’s team as Project Architect. She has two years of industry experience and a Masters’ in Architecture from […]
From Leader Publications: The De Soto City Council has taken more steps to help mitigate problems that contribute to the town’s flooding. Council members voted 5-0 June 19 to award a $390,000 contract for Valley Place drainage improvements to the lowest of two bidders, PCX Construction in Arnold. Kimes Construction submitted the other bid for […]
From Construction Dive: The Dodge Momentum Index, a benchmark that measures nonresidential building planning, dipped another 2.5% in June due to a deceleration in institutional planning, according to the Dodge Construction Network. While there were positives in the commercial sector, which rose 3.1% on the back of data center and hotel projects, the institutional segment […]
From KSDK: The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid-20th century were aware of health risks, spills, improperly stored contaminants and other problems but often ignored them, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Decades later, even with much […]
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