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Bloomington: Car town!
"The spring and summer season for Bloomington’s annual Kirkwood Avenue outdoor dining program has now been set by the board of public works: The street will be kept open to vehicular traffic while continuing to allow individual “parklet” installations for restaurants."
Cars, baby!
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Lawmakers eye road spending review as universally hated Mid-States Corridor nears construction
"Latest cost estimates put the total project at more than $3 billion...We’ll have to see how many dollars we have available to do that, because we certainly don’t want to do a huge project like that and then our safety improvement projects get put on hold,”
What IS this? The legislature doing sensible things is disrupting my whole worldview.
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Man inhales traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in body
"It takes a few minutes for me to get my eyes in, but then the air pollution becomes apparent. It appears as tiny black dots stuck to the red blood cells.
These are pieces of carbon and other chemicals, like a miniature lump of coal, that come from the incomplete burning of fuel. They're known as PM 2.5, because the particles are smaller than 2.5 micrometres."
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Superb owls at IU.
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RE: https://hoosier.social/@wfyi_unofficial/116036254849495499
That's kind of interesting. But what's really interesting is the great variety of Superb Owls you can find on the IU campus!
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London's West End streets could become a vast new public plaza under latest plans
"The plans would see Regent Street St James’s pedestrianised, and Haymarket converted into two-way traffic.
Further south, at the junction with Pall Mall, they propose pedestrianising Waterloo Place, the wide open area filled with statues and grand buildings."
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Hammersmith Bridge: Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
This is a super careful and comprehensive analysis of what to do with this bridge that's no longer able to carry vehicles.
"9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened."
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Man arrested after horse and cart involved in fatal collision with e-bike cyclist
I...what?
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Student union frustrated as IU cancels its annual MLK dinner
“We received formal notice of this decision via email at the very end of the fall semester, leaving us with little to no opportunity to pivot, reimagine, or implement an alternative, large-scale celebration within the remaining academic timeline.”...The cancellation has left the group with feelings of frustration, confusion, and exhaustion
https://www.wishtv.com/news/education/student-union-frustrated-as-iu-cancels-its-annual-mlk-dinner/
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Cliches rather than solutions in Northern Ireland road safety efforts
"We all share the responsibility for road safety" - both people operating lethal death machines and people trying to walk or bike, I suppose
"Evidence shows that more than nine in ten deaths and serious injuries are due to human error" - due to people driving cars, I would say
https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/news/lets-focus-road-safety-save-lives-2026-kimmins
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Shoppers prefer retail parks to UK high streets despite lure of Boxing Day sales
"Footfall in central London down 7.7% on last year but Britain’s retail parks buck trend with 6.9% rise"
The article concludes that it's because driving is so convenient. I say it's because retail parks don't have cars and high streets do. The mall I walked to had people queued up at every store but the tiny sidewalks of the high street were uncomfortable.
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Thought it might be fun to install some software on my laptop using @easybuild but
>Compiler error reporting is too harsh for configure
🤨
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Most great actors who played Scrooge were hamstrung by the production. Patrick Stewart was dumbed down for Hallmark. Michael Caine had all his scenes stolen by his costars. To play Scrooge well you need to be cold-hearted, sentimental, terrified, giddy, and joyous. Albert Finney nails most of those but a singing role doesn't quite do it. Alistair Sim does them all perfectly.
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Most great actors who played Scrooge were hamstrung by the production. Patrick Stewart was dumbed down for Hallmark. Michael Caine had all his scenes stolen by his costars. To play Scrooge well you need to be cold-hearted, sentimental, terrified, giddy, and joyous. Albert Finney nails most of those but a singing role doesn't quite do it. Alistair Sim does them all perfectly.
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Most great actors who played Scrooge were hamstrung by the production. Patrick Stewart was dumbed down for Hallmark. Michael Caine had all his scenes stolen by his costars. To play Scrooge well you need to be cold-hearted, sentimental, terrified, giddy, and joyous. Albert Finney nails most of those but a singing role doesn't quite do it. Alistair Sim does them all perfectly.
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Most great actors who played Scrooge were hamstrung by the production. Patrick Stewart was dumbed down for Hallmark. Michael Caine had all his scenes stolen by his costars. To play Scrooge well you need to be cold-hearted, sentimental, terrified, giddy, and joyous. Albert Finney nails most of those but a singing role doesn't quite do it. Alistair Sim does them all perfectly.
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Most great actors who played Scrooge were hamstrung by the production. Patrick Stewart was dumbed down for Hallmark. Michael Caine had all his scenes stolen by his costars. To play Scrooge well you need to be cold-hearted, sentimental, terrified, giddy, and joyous. Albert Finney nails most of those but a singing role doesn't quite do it. Alistair Sim does them all perfectly.
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Man, 79, dies following collision in Rayners Lane
I am appreciative of Harrow Online and how it reports on the number of people in Harrow being killed by cars, but I have to say the number of them makes me really nervous. Is this how many people are being killed in every district, or is Harrow particularly dangerous? 😬
https://harrowonline.org/2025/12/23/man-79-dies-following-collision-in-rayners-lane/
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I hope Waymo has outfitted the headlights of their self-driving cars with red LED's so we can tell when they've gone out of control.
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IU biology postdoc from China arrested on some ridiculous excuse
Youhuang Xiang, who has collaborated on numerous papers in the Roger Innes lab, was arrested for smuggling a really common bacteria into the US.
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NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by 22% in six months
Within the CRZ, which covers Manhattan streets at or below 60th Street, average daily peak concentrations of PM2.5 dropped by 3.05 µg/m³...Across New York City’s five boroughs, pollution levels fell by an average of 1.07 µg/m³, while the broader metropolitan area saw reductions of 0.70 µg/m³.
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License to Kill: How California lets dangerous drivers stay on the road
"The California Department of Motor Vehicles routinely allows drivers like these — with horrifying histories of dangerous driving, including DUIs, crashes and numerous tickets — to continue to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again."
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London bus speeds ‘worst we’ve seen in 40 years’
"If buses in London increase their speed by an average of 1mph, it could save up to £200 million per year and generate additional revenue of £85 million from increased passenger numbers as a result."
Look at that picture. Probably 200 people in buses taking up two thirds of the space, and 20 people in cars taking the rest. More bike lanes, fewer car lanes is the answer.
https://harrowonline.org/2025/12/11/london-bus-speeds-worst-weve-seen-in-40-years-assembly-told/
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New cycle path links Corby town centre and railway station
"Jan O'Hara, executive councillor for planning and growth, said: "Projects like this bring enormous benefits to the local area.
"The wider scheme has also seen roads resurfaced... together, with the addition of new benches, bins and shelters, the area is helping to foster healthier lifestyle choices in more accessible pathways for walking and cycling."
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Reporters still struggling with how to describe drivers hitting walkers
Here we go with "Collision" which is a pretty weird choice. They avoided "Accident", which is good, but don't say "Pedestrian" until the end of the story, and never really mention whether the driver is known, or even if the car had a driver, which is becoming increasingly important to clarify.
https://harrowonline.org/2025/11/28/road-still-blocked-in-harrow-after-early-hours-incident/
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TIL that the science of informatics as applied to geology, seismology, geophysics, etc. is called "geoinformatics". Maybe obvious, but I never put it together!
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Indiana women’s basketball adds sixth-ranked class of 2026, per ESPN
"The Hoosiers officially signed four players for the class of 2026 on Wednesday: guards Ashlinn James and GiGi Battle, wing Addison Nyemchek, and center Zoe Jackson. ESPN ranked Indiana’s class the sixth-best in the country."
Should put them right back in the tournament mix! But I don't know how NIL is affecting the women's game, or whether IU is willing to pony up for it.
https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/indiana-womens-basketball-adds-sixth-ranked-class-of-2026-per-espn/
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@ScottStarkey I watched the IU soccer Hoosiers win a national championship in Columbus, in just miserably cold weather. But a fan's gotta do what a fan's gotta do! #iuhoosiers
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Traffic measures causing ‘deep and lasting division’ in Brent neighbourhood
Same ol' same ol' as far as I can see. Restricting cars on one road gets the people on nearby roads, who don't understand reducing demand, up in arms. The difference from the US is that they're actually trying it rather than doing studies.
Brent council is going to do some traffic counts, so I wonder if that will make any difference. -
Aurora: A Foundation Model for the Earth System
"Trained on vast amounts of data, it’s tuned to model the Earth’s systems. Aurora has already shown promise across multiple scenarios, including predicting the weather, tracking hurricanes and air quality, and modeling ocean waves and energy flows."
I first saw this in a Microsoft newsletter, and traced it through a Nature paper and a Github repo. It might be fun to play with!