ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

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/

A website that lets you compare Hubble and JWST images of various deep space objects using a slider.

https://www.webbcompare.com

1 km in a fossil fuel car takes about 2 MJ of gasoline
1 km in an electric car takes about 0.6 MJ of electricity
1 km in a Dutch train takes about 0.4 MJ of electricity
1 km on an e-bike takes about 0.03 MJ of electricity

Why is gravity so cheap?

Why Because it's mass-produced.

“Once the car blindness has been lifted for you, you can't unsee cars as all the things they are: big, noisy, dangerous, fossil fuel-emitting, expensive, and cumbersome.”

Our own Sarah Goodyear is quoted in this great piece from Mashable.

https://mashable.com/article/car-free-movement-social-media

#TheWarOnCars

“…all this so-called “evidence” about how policies have worked in other towns simply does not apply to us. No evidence applies to us. Our town exists in a fog of mystery and enigmatic strangeness, and nothing that happens outside city boundaries should have any bearing on how we govern or exist.”

Anything in this article sound familiar? #NIMBY

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/every-nimbys-speech-at-a-public-hearing

#cities #urbanism

Bolsonaro supporters copying the January 6 insurrection shocked the world for a reason.

It was chilling example that far-right authoritarianism is contagious.

Nowhere is this more relevant than in the EU, home to the two most rapidly autocratizing countries, Hungary and Poland.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/katka_cseh/status/1616001870861934595

I wish more (male) leaders would be as willing to reflect on “when it’s time to go.”

Thank you for inspiring generations of women. We’ll miss your leadership, #JacindaArdern

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/katka_cseh/status/1616003870165028864

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes break traffic laws while riding, yet 66% of people do so when driving. And if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid

#urbanism #bikes #cars #laws #cities #safety
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists-break-far-fewer-road-rules-than-motorists-finds-new-video-study/

RT @CroatiaInEU: 31 years ago, #Croatia gained international recognition and set out on a journey as a sovereign nation.🇭🇷

Today we look back at all our achievements with gratitude and confidence of an EU, #eurozone and #Schengen area member.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EK_Hrvatska/status/1614551176325758976

Attention cities & states — remember this as you reconsider EVERY single freeway and road widening project that you’ve been working on for years and even decades, but very likely need to cancel in light of the #CimateEmergency, and the fact that they cost hundreds of millions or even billions, don’t actually work, and will actually induce more driving.

#InducedTraffic #ClimateCrisis #cities #cars #freeways #roads #streets ##urbanism

SERENITY

A 5 minute exposure of a scene that caught my eye. A rising tide and a setting sun, all this chaos and movement surrounding one constant, stick in the mud.
Reassuringly relatable..

#dorset
#longexposure
#landscape
#photography
#photo
#seascape
#england
#martindolanphotography

@BrentToderian I always find it odd when I talk to people who complain about traffic and their brain somehow takes them to “if that guy on his bike was also in a car in this traffic jam things would be a bit better for me”.

2022 was the 5th warmest year on record in our @BerkeleyEarth@twitter.com surface temperature dataset, and the warmest year on record for regions where 850 million people live.

28 countries saw their warmest year on record, including the UK, Spain, France, Germany, New Zealand, and China.

This is one reason why the transition to clean energy is estimated to save (not cost, but save) trillions of dollars. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-09-14-decarbonising-energy-system-2050-could-save-trillions-oxford-study

And this video is older but I'm adding it this year too - what being a climate scientist is like, in our own words. Micheal Oppenheimer, Radley Horton and I explain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ737NsLl7k