As I sit here working, I can't help but notice that the neighborhood cowboy who sings (loudly) in the playground each Tues has changed the lyrics of 'Jolene' to 'ice cream,' and, my, is it ever a mournful, existential take on waiting for the ice cream truck.

Here you go! It was a 4.8 mag quake - NE of Lebanon, New Jersey.

This video of “public transit in Finland” seems to be blowing people’s mind. Via joshlevine485.

The Bicco Bike Bus is a large group bike designed to allow one adult driver to easily transport ten children with only pedal power.

Used in the Netherlands to get to school, it is an original way to offer kids fun and exercise.

This is not quite the bike revolution I'd like to see in my city. In Montreal you see women, parents with kids, kids alone and older people all in the bike lanes.

there are so many corners of the universe and one of the greatest things about being a reporter is you get to submerge yourself for a few weeks (or days or months) in a bunch of them

A 🧵 on today's horrifying The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report on famine in Gaza.

In my 25 years as a humanitarian this may be, pound for pound, the grimmest analysis I have ever seen.

All the more indefensible since the December projections made clear this was coming.

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NEW Guttmacher Institute data out today:

One million abortions took place in the formal US health care system in 2023, a *10 percent increase* in the number of abortions from 2020.

That's also the highest number and rate of abortions measured in the US in more than a decade

Kendra Hurley, in a story in Early Learning Nation, reviewed several recent studies that point to the importance of family financial security during a child’s first year of life.

Clink the image below to read the story. Kendra Hurley Early Learning Nation

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Expert in Foster Care Cases Admits Her Method Is Unscientific - and KathrynWellsMD refuses to disavow her approach, although she is using the Kempe name to add a false image of scientific rigor to testimony that urges permanent separation of poor families. propublica.org/article/expert…

NEW: Private equity is swallowing up America's emergency rooms.

1 in 4 ERs are now staffed by private equity-based firms.

The waits are longer, the bills are higher, and ER doctors are being replaced by lower-paid contractors.

When I was growing up in Texas, there were lots of pleas to 'keep Austin weird.' Sadly, that didn't happen! Paris is now a model for how cities can fund housing and protect small businesses to stay accessible to the non-wealthy. nytimes.com/2024/03/17/rea…

NYC just had an unusually safe year for pedestrians! John Surico looks at what went right, a lot involving safety redesigns at intersections, where most fatalities occur. Lots of new daylighting in my Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Research team from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine wanted to go
beyond the data about exposure to crime and other adverse conditions to look at how the mother’s view of her personal safety affected her + her infant’s well-being. Julia Carter KC Compton reports tinyurl.com/2mzybfnv

Big Oil faces flood of climate lawsuits and is moving closer to trial. The long delays have strengthened legal arguments against them.
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interesting...
scientificamerican.com/article/why-wr…

Cost of overnight summer camp ranges from $383 in North Dakota to $2,350 a week in New Hampshire
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Over half of Black kids will be investigated for child abuse. Investigations are stressful & traumatic for families, & few result in maltreatment findings. NYC families in a class action lawsuit are now saying they are unconstitutional. 1/4 nytimes.com/2024/02/20/nyr…

The annual race to get the kids registered for summer camp started at my local Y at 5 a.m. The website has crashed. The mom chat group is getting wild. Who's working on this systemic absurdity?