Men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. Study finds where protected bike lane coverage is higher, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. Where coverage is limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops more sharply.
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oh goody this one is gendered female
and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes
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I *loved* the first two books. (I haven’t read the others - yet.)
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Oh Mary, how we wish you were still around.
Honestly, one of D’s friends was in that program and hated it. He said several times that he wanted to come back to the old school. It may have been good for her, but it’s not an unalloyed or guaranteed good. I got the impression it was more work but not necessarily more interesting work.
I’ve never played Spelljammers, but I’ve heard the Star Wars adaptation of 5e is excellent. It’s what they used on Dimension 20’s A Starstruck Odyssey and just recently Worlds Beyond Numbers’ The Flight of the Icaron. In the latter, they tweaked the Force mechanics some to make it more hard SF.
The only time I see anyone say individual actions don’t matter at all is oversimplified takes on social media. But that’s true of a zillion issues.
Also "Chaos needs an appointment to come here" cracked me up, especially knowing my kids' tendency towards the chaotic. If they had an appointment, they would forget it...
The algorithm speaks to us all… But yeah, it was quite the endorsement!
Ha, did you see me post that on Facebook? (I reposted it yesterday.) It is truly epic.
I grew up near there and went to the ballet every summer with my mom as well as to that museum - it was a huge part of my childhood. That’s so disappointing to hear.
<snort> I may have done this to my children before.
I remember looking over the shoulder of the boy I had a crush on reading Jaws - I was in sixth grade and he was in seventh. I said something about that not being appropriate and he pointed out that it certainly wasn't appropriate for me and I was looking over his shoulder, was I not?
I read it with my older kid when he was 10 and it's his favorite book, hands-down. I did give him a lot of forewarning about the realism of it though and we talked through it, which helped.
The Handmaid's Tale in 8th grade. Which I only read because I heard of it from an X-Files fan fiction that I was also far too young for that had Mulder and Scully in that universe. I remember being incredibly impressed by the fan fic and disappointed that the original wasn't as good as I expected.
I read it in probably 8th grade or so after reading The Sword and the Stone in 6th grade gifted and talented class. I loved the first book, thought the second was okay and thought the rest were incredibly boring.
So there was an (albeit much smaller) Civilian Climate Corp program set up by the last administration in 2021 and then funded as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Now, this adminstration kneecapped it and found ways to never distribute the money.
I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.
Yes! That's something I learned when I worked adjacent to folks who did rulemakings. At the least, submitting good comments makes the rulemaking process go slower (there's more to read and respond to) and reduces harm overall. I'm pretty sure most federal employees aren't being speedy about it.
You know you're in a neurodivergent household when you can't finish your book about kids with ADHD because you keep getting interrupted by said kids when they should be in bed.
Bike and pedestrian laws are the perfect example of why we need both societal attitude change and policy change to build environmental sustainability. Even if policy is passed, it can’t be implemented without community support: wapo.st/4rGFzYE (gift link)
Ah, okay then!
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The Erie Canal! A lot of upstate NY kids went there on field trips. The main thing I remember was that a lot of kids said that the very long, boring bus ride was their favorite part.
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Yes! My favorite thing was definitely “bottles may be spun.”