In 2016, voters passed the End of Life Options Act, which makes it legal for terminally ill adult Coloradans to obtain and self-administer a fatal dose of prescribed medication. Roughly 1,100 people have used MAID in the state, and recent legislation increased access for the sickest patients.
Robert Sanchez humanizes how those with terminal illnesses are empowered to die with dignity.
In 2016, voters passed the End of Life Options Act, which makes it legal for terminally ill adult Coloradans to obtain and self-administer a fatal dose of prescribed medication. Roughly 1,100 people have used MAID in the state, and recent legislation increased access for the sickest patients. Robert Sanchez humanizes how those with terminal illnesses…
If you have ever flown solo on an airplane, you know how much of a gamble it is who your seats will be for the duration of your flight. Most of the time, it’s a non-event. You sit there. They sit there. Maybe you share basic pleasantries or small talk. Every now and then, you…
A cool piece of history: Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese samurai, served as a diplomat in 17th century Europe.
(warning, a couple f-bombs) a couple guys captured in pilot making a smile, smiley face in the air above them.
Sandy Ernest Allen Confronts J.K. Rowling’s Virulent Transphobia. Here was an extremely wealthy and culturally powerful woman who, for some reason, insisted on making her bigoted views about people like me openly and widely known. And so, having long debated what to do about this situation, I dug a fire pit in my backyard and…
What happens when you send a humorist to do investigative reporting? You get a story about how absolutely insane it is when the government won’t do his job. Alexandra Petri set out to perform tasks usually allocated to a government agency employee. What became a five-month quest to assume government responsibilities took me from the…
That little arrow on your dashboard that points either left or right, tells you which side of your gas tank is on. It’s such a simple design, and it even has a name, The Moylan Arrow, named after the engineer, Jim Moylan. “I would like to propose a small addition,” he wrote, “in all passenger…
Anna’s Archive backed up Spotify. The whole article is interesting about the process and the analysis that they did on the data set. They walked in the home process and including charts class, they even offer a truly random song selection.
Here’s a fun Minesweeper clone that combines dungeon-crawling elements with a Minesweeper-like grid, called Dragonsweeper. The numbers indicate the hit points of the monsters in those squares. You need to collect gold in order to level up and earn more hearts to take on larger monsters.
An interesting idea: 3D printed, open-source industrial construction equipment that could create a village or small town if necessary, called the Global Village Construction Set.
