Pedro @PedroMiguel@social.cleverlibre.org

"Hey Everyone! I made an App to recognize Lady Gaga songs. Here are the songs we used to train the app, which I am releasing under a Creative Commons license, please credit me when you share them"

In this article, I explain our economic woes are due to striking nurses, paramedics, postal workers & rail workers & definitely nothing to do with the £30bn Brexit hole or the £30bn Liz Truss hole. You won't find journalism of this quality anywhere else 👇
https://abnormalisland.blogspot.com/2022/12/polling-data-from-organisation-whose.html

Chemistry of nutmeg

https://doi.org/10.1002/chemv.202000140

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemicaleducation #everydaychemistry #everydaylifechemistry

Have you seen this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — illustrates why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, has been strongly linked to better creative & intellectual performance.
Just one of MANY benefits of choosing to walk, for you and for society.
Design and build walkable cities.
#walking #cities #urbanism #WalkableCities #WalkToSchool #WalkToWork #city #cars

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent

I deeply dislike you.

When you lose a sock in the dryer, it gets reincarnated as a tupperware lid that doesn't fit anything.

BREAKING: Rishi Sunak has made an impassioned please for nurses to end their strike action, begging them to understand the only reason he isn't paying them more money is because he doesn't want to x

I probably should have done this first, but never mind, here’s #Introduction post!

I’m an #editor and a #writer. I have a #Chemistry PhD and I used to be a science/chemistry teacher. But that was too scary so now I’m one of the editors of the #horror #podcast, PseudoPod.

That, sadly, doesn’t pay many bills—so I also work as a medical editor and #proofreader for one of the bigger #advertising companies.

I like details and patterns and am slightly obsessed with the works of #TerryPratchett.

Hands down the best quote from an article written by Sam Bankman-Fried's mother entitled "Beyond Blame."

Whoops!

#FTX #crypto #SBF #philosophy

https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blame-moral-responsibility-philosophy-law/

A reply to one of my recent posts asked me to “be realistic.”

Let’s be REALLY clear here.

I’ve been doing this for 30+ years in every kind of city. I’ve been in more decision-making rooms than I can count.

I know what’s possible and what isn’t. I know why things happen and why they don’t. I know what excuse sounds like.

Everything I talk about regarding better cities is “realistic.” It takes telling the truth, actually WANTING to make different choices, & real leadership.
#cities #urbanism

Considering my change of job this year I was mulling over what to do with my ACS membership. The two biggest reasons I maintained membership were access to C&EN (because of the great coverage of the chemistry community) and the reduced conference rates. The latter I no longer need and sadly the former may no longer be a compelling reason to stick around. 25 years ain't bad, but I think I'm done. Good luck to all the former C&EN eds & those still holding the fort.

#ChemiVerse #ChemToots

Any conversation about “better” cars HAS to be in the context of real, ambitious strategies to achieve FEWER cars. As I put it recently in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles [that was their stated goal]. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250K electric vehicles. The answer HAS to be FEWER cars and LESS driving.”

#ElectricVehicles #EVs #cars #cities #urbanism #transportation

I am posting an open letter to the membership of the @AmerChemSociety, signed by current/former Advisory Board & Editorial Board members, detailing our deep concern at the recent upheaval @cenmag punctuated by the firing of @BibianaCampos & @jkemsley https://kitchenchemistry.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-membership

#Renewables are on track to generate more power than #coal and #Nuclear in the United States this year. But the question is whether they can grow fast enough to meet the country's #climate goals accounting for just 20% of #electricity https://bit.ly/3Oud3aR #climatechange