JET PILOT (1957) features some of the most spectacular aerial photography in film history. Chuck Yeager anonymously flew several of the planes during the production. Such graceful and elegant flying! Watch all 8-minutes of the flying footage here: vashivisuals.com/the-aerial-cin…

The typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/3rd of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people. #CityMakingMath HT Brent Bellamy

How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Apparently some folks are just now learning Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Lincoln helped to organize the GOP in the 1850s. He and his colleagues articulated a vital American ideology, and then put it into practice. Let's take a look at Lincoln and his GOP, shall we? /1

Our 2018 Battery Price Survey has found that the volume-weighted average price of a lithium-ion battery pack is $176/kWh - the price has fallen 85% in real terms since 2010 due to tech improvements resulting in higher energy density at the cathode material, cell & pack level.

This one idea – the hack gap – explains how and why conservative nonsense dominates American politics.

Subotnja kolumna nedjeljom: Zalijevanje korova novilist.hr/Komentari/Kolu…

“Please Don’t Stand So Close To Me” w/ Sting, The Roots, and instruments from home.

What does a mask do? Blocks respiratory droplets coming from your mouth and throat. Two simple demos: First, I sneezed, sang, talked & coughed toward an agar culture plate with or without a mask. Bacteria colonies show where droplets landed. A mask blocks virtually all of them.

India's unique number system. 👇

Taylor Swift as econ textbooks:

“Our moment will come too” — Waldorf Astoria Plumbing & Heating Co

Correlation between vaccination coverage and COVID hospitalizations per million over time, by state

Updated wave compare mirror charts based on latest (14-Jul) data. Using the dates in these charts, at this point in the previous wave we had: - 4 x covid +ve daily admissions. - 6 x covid +ve patients in hospital. - 18 x the daily covid +ve deaths.

Stop with this stereotype about Italians doing hand gestures. It’s not t x.com/itsmwengo/stat…

My favorite part of this pandemic has been people with no medical training whatsoever telling me “educate yourself.”

If you don't recognise these tactics, then you haven't been paying attention. From Kharkiv's frontline, #Ukraine dc and Feras. With thanks to our local team. BBC News (UK) BBC News (World) Graphic content warning.

The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.