ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

🚨 Moment important : alors que @TotalEnergies vient d’annoncer des profits records de 19 milliards d’euros, nous sommes plus de 100 élus européens à demander à la Présidente de la Commission @vonderleyen une législation européenne pour empêcher tout nouveau projet fossiles. 🧶

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/rglucks1/status/1623252143485423619

And while I think a cosmological constant is the most likely explanation for what we're seeing, I have to admit it's more of an "if" than it was a few years ago.

The "Hubble Tension" is, imo, one of the most interesting things happening in physics right now. Different methods of measuring the Hubble factor give results that are squarely outside of each technique's expected error. Roughly speaking, cosmological and astrophysical measurements don't quite agree.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-get-their-wish-and-the-hubble-crisis-gets-worse-20201217/

This is actually in a textbook...

Boost if you see it.

The latest denial meme is this figure of derived tropospheric temperatures from the University of Alabama Huntsville analysis that purports to show no warming over the last decade.

I know of at least five reasons why this doesn't disprove global warming ... how many can you come up with?

I've got two hints in the paragraph above. Here's another: why do we see a new round of these figures every time we have a La Nina event? And a fourth: who leads that research group?

Go!

How often does it happens while riding a bike, that the bike lane ends and gets merged into a street or into a sidewalk?

The cycling infrastructure can be quite fragmented in different cities. In the following post I show how one can download and analyze the bicycle infrastructure dat for a city, and compare it with the driving infrastructure.

Give it a read: https://luisnatera.com/posts/2023/02/02-connected-or-fragmented-analyzing-bicycle-infrastructure-in-cities-with-python/

"I don't understand job interviewers who don't like seeing tattoos on candidates. Being able to sit still for hours on end while having needles jammed into your skin seems like great preparation for meetings".

“The MIT study found that with a mass global takeup of autonomous vehicles, the powerful onboard computers needed to run them could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centres in operation today.” Via #Dezeen

Fewer cars and less driving, not “better” cars.

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/01/31/self-driving-cars-emissions-mit-study/

#cars #DriverlessCars #AutonomousVehicles #cities #urbanism #transportation #Climate

Hier, la Commission transport du Parlement européen a adopté un projet de résolution pour doter l'Europe d'une stratégie vélo. C'est la première fois qu'un tel texte est adopté.
Je vous explique tout ici ⬇️⬇️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/KarimaDelli/status/1620727957793939456

Looks dumb, right?

This is how we design cities.

HT @urbanthoughts11

#CarDependency #cars #cities #urbanism

EPISODE 99: "Car Brain with Dr. Ian Walker."

@ianwalker joins us for a fascinating discussion about a new study into the unconscious biases we all share in favor of cars, whether we drive or not — a phenomenon he and his co-authors call "motonormativity."

Available wherever you get your podcasts. Please follow and rate/review us!

#podcast #podcast #thewaroncars #cars #driving

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/01/31/car-brain-with-dr-ian-walker/

RT @copenhenken: Great news! EP Transport Cttee votes overwhelmingly to recognise #cycling as a fully fledged mode of transport! Well done ⁦@europarl_en⁩ ⁦@EP_Transport⁩ ⁦@KarimaDelli⁩ 🚴‍♀️🌱🌱💪 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230130IPR70105/transport-meps-want-more-support-for-cycling

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/KarimaDelli/status/1620368320611635205

#NikolaTesla #histsci #histtech #MemoryStudies #histodons

The recording of my CAS-SEE lecture on studying Nikola Tesla as a myth is up on the institute's Youtube channel!

https://youtu.be/eM7B_sVSeIs?t=2

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch it repeated by those who didn’t.

Why Elon Musk and the billionaire space bros want to put people in space cages forever

Space colonization is not at all about gadgets and rockets and planets

https://againstmars.substack.com/p/why-elon-musk-and-the-billionaire

(Manu basically calls it: Mars colonization is an fetish of the ideologically motivated right-wing eugenics movement. The likely outcome if it happens on Musk's terms will be a living hell for the victims, i.e. 99% of the colonists. And especially the women, because there's a male-supremacist subtext in there.)

This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid in Forbes. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople #cities #cars #streets #urbanism #Spain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/03/08/closing-central-madrid-to-cars-resulted-in-9-5-boost-to-retail-spending-finds-bank-analysis/