Thorium, baby, thorium! Although anything alleviating/replacing global energy demand would be a welcome changing of the game at this point, I can only imagine the systemic change moving away from hydrocarbons would usher in. It'd be extra-sweet if whatever replaced it was cheap and decentralized.

The reason round letters extend past the baseline is to ground them and make all the letters appear to be sitting on the same line. Basically, perception is reality: If the bottom of the bowl is on the same horizontal line as flat letters, the round letters look like they're floating even though in reality the exact…

Visually, it looks more balanced because the lowest part of the letter is a curve and "appears" to be thicker than a flat line at the same height. If you put the curve slightly below the baseline, when paired with a flat base letter, it looks correct to the eye.

Design "nerd" here. The bottom of the "l" and the bottom of the "e" should not line up. The bowls of curved letters like e's and o's go below the baseline (which is the line the horizontal bottom of the "l" would sit on). This is called "overshoot," and is standard typography practice. Not like, a "design nerd" will…

This is surely exciting news to ridiculously wealthy white people of the future.

There was no "outside of that".

I can see where this article is going but I can also see where Aspartame detractors are coming from. You said it yourself, the ingredients that make up Aspartame are not unhealthy in their dose BUT they are in almost everything we eat. If that is the case, we need to consider the amount we are already taking in when…