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"The psychological benefits of re-introducing work horses to cities"

Some French towns began using horse-drawn carts for garbage, and to bring kids to school

It was to lower the carbon footprint, but it turned out to have another, subtler benefit:

Psychological and emotional

Horses seemed to just *chill everyone out* a bunch

My blog post on it -- click here if you're a Medium subscriber: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/e-ink-playing-cards-steam-powered-spacecraft-and-pissing-off-canadian-geese-61857a149e6f

If you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a friend link https://clivethompson.medium.com/e-ink-playing-cards-steam-powered-spacecraft-and-pissing-off-canadian-geese-61857a149e6f?sk=b9d7847c3c1e9274e1395c87584874ee