1. On crowd management - I think there has been significant research done in the UK on this topic after disasters such as Hillsborough. Our fellows (if they want to) can simply read and copy that (in terms of stadium design and stuff). Will be far better than status quo.
2. China's bureaucracy on rare earth magnets reminds me of how crude oil prices going > $100 / barrel in the late 2000s led to the fracking revolution. And now US is a net oil exporter (IIRC)
I wonder if the problem isn't a lack of awareness about what other places do in terms of crowd management. Instead, implementing those solutions would require trade-offs, which aren't possible in the Indian context.
True. The equivalent would be breakthroughs in recycling, rare earth substitutes, or system substitutes. Thanks to Xi for raising prices else they would have continued to flood their overcapacity and suppress alternative pathways.
RSJ’s crowd management description sounds eerily familiar with what we had to encounter in Jagannath Puri temple on a generic non special day. Crowds packed in a thin narrow enclosure, soon let out in a haphazard way to a big sanctum, with lot of opportunities to break the queue formed earlier. To make matters worse, the pandas look for gullible bengali tourists and extract the maximum they can afford. It is indeed the lord’s miracle that people have so much faith in him to undergo this level of hardship and humiliations.
As always enjoyed reading. The best section was about rare earth magnets and how restrictions can be a blessing in disguise for other countries(substitute goods). Can you recommend some book/s on politics of rare earth/critical minerals.
1. On crowd management - I think there has been significant research done in the UK on this topic after disasters such as Hillsborough. Our fellows (if they want to) can simply read and copy that (in terms of stadium design and stuff). Will be far better than status quo.
2. China's bureaucracy on rare earth magnets reminds me of how crude oil prices going > $100 / barrel in the late 2000s led to the fracking revolution. And now US is a net oil exporter (IIRC)
I wonder if the problem isn't a lack of awareness about what other places do in terms of crowd management. Instead, implementing those solutions would require trade-offs, which aren't possible in the Indian context.
True. The equivalent would be breakthroughs in recycling, rare earth substitutes, or system substitutes. Thanks to Xi for raising prices else they would have continued to flood their overcapacity and suppress alternative pathways.
RSJ’s crowd management description sounds eerily familiar with what we had to encounter in Jagannath Puri temple on a generic non special day. Crowds packed in a thin narrow enclosure, soon let out in a haphazard way to a big sanctum, with lot of opportunities to break the queue formed earlier. To make matters worse, the pandas look for gullible bengali tourists and extract the maximum they can afford. It is indeed the lord’s miracle that people have so much faith in him to undergo this level of hardship and humiliations.
As always enjoyed reading. The best section was about rare earth magnets and how restrictions can be a blessing in disguise for other countries(substitute goods). Can you recommend some book/s on politics of rare earth/critical minerals.
I recommend this one paper https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/critical_minerals.pdf