Darwinian evolution is the best example of fucking around and finding out

Why housing & environmental activists should support paying rent for land: it reduces urban sprawl, pollution, energy use, traffic, environmental degradation while eliminating income taxes for most.

Sprawl forces people to travel further jobs, making cities less sustainable ⤵️

“Vladimir Putin at a pride parade” 🏳️‍🌈

#StableDiffusion (redd.it/z0yrr9)

North Americans look around and assume that the car-centricism that surrounds them is this emergent phenomenon, the pure result of revealed preference, when in fact it's the most heavily planned/subsidized/regulated pattern of development in human history.

We released some human neuron electrophysiology data! You can check out the data on DANDI Project here dandiarchive.org/dandiset/00029…

Did you know that Ontarians can vote in every municipality where they own property? So a landlord can vote more than once, but a permanent resident can’t vote at all.

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This month in “the war on drugs”

*So* happy with this new feature on theprepared.org about Ise Jingu Grand Shrine, which has been meticulously rebuilt every 20 years since 690 AD. theprepared.org/features-feed/…

In times like this, it's worth thinking about how our city is designed

- why can't I freaking sit down anywhere
- in the shade
- where are the public washrooms
- where can I get water if I'm thirsty
- without paying
- why do I have to breathe car exhaust everywhere

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Short #openscience ❤️story:

1. Reviewed paper & asked for data 🙏
2. Authors shared data & code 👌
3. Was able to reproduce *all* results 💪
4. Better understanding of paper 💡
5. Ran additional analyses 👨‍🏫
6. Suggested minor changes 👨‍🔧
7. Asked myself why that's not standard 🤷‍♂️

Insurance, fuel, maintenance, financing, parking, and registration: the average annual cost of owning and operating a car is $10,452. Then there is the noise, the dirty air, the compromised safety for children and seniors. Designing cities around cars will some day be obsolete.

And the city is helping wealthy people to replace their slate roofs in Cabbagetown

Remembering certain folks that said no one would use a man-made beach in the winter

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal…

fascinated by this man, mario cortellucci, and his outsized influence on ontario and GTA politics. cortellucci, who lives in vaughan and ran as a far-right candidate for the italian senate back in 2018 - is a major ford donor...

Eric Topol Penn Medicine Moderna BioNTech SE Damian Garde STAT David Gelles NYT Science 'Katalin Koriko spent the 1990s collecting rejections. Her work, attempting to harness the power of mRNA to fight disease, was too far-fetched for government grants, corporate funding, and even support from her own colleagues.'
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