Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eyal Press writes about the problems with the U.S.’ health care system which forces medical workers to subordinate the health of their patients…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Laura O’Callaghan writes about new research showing how the NHS (like other health systems) is facing staff shortages based in part on the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nicolas Banholzer et al. study the dramatic impact of COVID-19 measures in schools – with a mandatory mask policy reducing transmission by nearly…
Humans Should Rank Higher Than Drivers
Hey @CityofVancouver? this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos. pic.twitter.com/A4xZOwMCGi…
Tokyo Demonstrates the True Cost of Cars
Japan’s well respected car industry sells cars the world over, but at home it’s a different story. Car ownership is low in Japan for obvious reasons like having a good…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alex Fulton discusses the lessons we should be learning from the response to COVID-19 in preparing for the next pandemic. Richard Payerchin highlights…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig calls out the Ford PCs for making it even more difficult to hold corporate health care operators to account for sub-par…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – IOS Press discusses new research showing that COVID-19 accelerates the cognitive decline in people already living with dementia. F. Perry Wilson examines how…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Stanford responds to the alt-right’s demonization of liveable communities by pointing out what a 15-minute city actually means. And Monika Korzun…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Liam Mannix examines how the scientists with the deepest knowledge of the risks of COVID-19 are protecting themselves from the ongoing pandemic. And…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Robert Reich discusses how the concentration of power in the hands of the U.S.’ capitalist class has reached levels not see since the…
The Largest GPS Bicycle Reminds us Bicycles are Rad
The most efficient form of transportation is the bicycle, and to remind us how great the two wheeled vehicles are a couple drew a giant bike in Europe. They used…
Let’s Startup Airships
Silicon Valley millionaires keep trying to solve problems that don’t exist like juice pressing and “smart” appliances. So when thinkers in the valley promote solutions to actual problems it’s a…
Hop Aboard the Free Transit Movement
Our contemporary financial approach to moving people around a city subsidizes individual automobile use, which leads to more car use and worse mobility for everyone. An easy solution to this…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Desmon interviews Ziyad Al-Aly about the reality that anybody infected with COVID-19 faces a substantial risk of heart problems as a…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Zhenguo Nie, Yunzhi Chen and Meifeng Deng study the relative merits of COVID precautions, finding upward ventilation and masking to be the most…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Boxing Day reading. – Robert Reich discusses the dangers of relying on – and indeed building a political and economic system to favour – the social…
The Benefits of Free Transit
he benefits of free transit helps more than just riders, it can help a whole city. We already give free road access to car owners and provide them with rights…
People Who Ditched Their Car Are Happier
There’s are individuals who advocate against making our cities better places to live because they fear losing their dependence on their automobile (car marketers encourage this too). We need to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire sets out the realities of COVID which are apparent to people on top of the flow of scientific news – even…