Honor system sweet corn vendors will restore your faith in humanity

The amount of space pedestrians get:

Have you ever wondered why some cities are just so much nicer than others? Well, it's probably because they have good "Third Places." What is a Third Place? It's wherever you go when you're not at home or at work...

Ten years ago our team found big #schoolvouchers exit rates in Milwaukee. Now, the same team that found huge negative voucher academic impacts in Indiana finds: That loss came *even while voucher schools were pushing out their lowest scorers.* 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.310…

⁦Strawbees⁩ we are building Ferris wheels and would like to make them move with the steam classroom robotics kit with the micro:bit. Where do we place the servo? Thank you everyone for your assistance. ⁦Micro:bit Educational Foundation⁩

Your periodic reminder of what private property you can and cannot store in public space. (Cartoon by Dave Walker)

The fact that #schoolvouchers advocates won’t accept basic accountability to get a deal done is the tell: After racing 1998-2005 to set up early evaluations of small pilot versions they now oppose any oversight Why? They know the results from the last decade are horrific #pagov

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Highway 47 north of Hoven, SD (Pop. 376) is being resurfaced, widened, and replacing a few culverts to the tune of $15.8 million, or $40,721 per car that uses it each day. It's wild to me that projects like these are given rubber stamps while transit investment is scrutinized.

via ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2023/07/24/spo…

The_Real_Fly Historic Vids Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

This painting has no brush strokes — it is made from over 2,000,000 individual dots of colour. And though this may look like nothing more than a sunny afternoon in Paris, it has a much darker hidden meaning...

We figured out how to get the Ferris wheels moving. Changed positional servo that comes with kit to continuous servo & changed a few connectors. Hard work pays off. ⁦Strawbees⁩ ⁦Micro:bit Educational Foundation⁩ ⁦Microsoft MakeCode⁩ #CompSciNJ ⁦CSTANJ⁩ ⁦CS4NJ⁩

Exploding costs, unaccountable expenses, grift and fraud. The case against #schoolvouchers is the one they make themselves once they become law. ktar.com/story/5520673/…

Love this for class team game! 🙌🏻

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Love this! Are there links to any guidelines or plans, or is this all original? I might like to do something like this myself one day!

Children riding e-bikes were killed by motorists driving large vehicles on deadly infrastructure and the The New York Times calls them “e-bike accidents.” Which is a bit like calling a rash of school shootings “cafeteria accidents.” The danger on our roads is cars. nytimes.com/2023/07/29/hea…

Investing in pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure not only increases safety, but also improves quality of life by connecting neighborhoods and promoting healthy living. The goal? Safe mobility in every Chicago community.

“Wash, D.C. is a beautiful city that needs nobody to defend its good name; D.C. is no different from other cities in this amazing country. It’s full of hard-working people trying to look after their families & build better neighborhoods for their children” washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…