Look, I am not here to complain about gender balance of Nobel Prizes, I figured out what I needed to about that all a long time ago and 🙄 But. This got me. They really have NO self-awareness, do they?! After all this time?!! 👀
Fahrradfahrer:innen oder Fußgänger:innen werden regelmäßig „erfasst“, „touchiert“ oder „übersehen“, wenn sie „plötzlich“ und „unerwartet“ die Straße betreten. Unfälle „ereignen sich“, es kommt zu „Zusammenstößen“ oder „Kollisionen“. Welche Auswirkungen hat das? berlin.adfc.de/artikel/radf...
Erfasst, touchiert, übersehen - warum Sprache in Polizeimeldungen und Artikeln die Wahrnehmung von Unfällen beeinflusst und dadurch Maßnahmen für mehr Verkehrssicherheit verhindert werden.
Apocalyptic millenarianisn redux - we’ll be saved by our belief that a miracle will occur when we die
Great Withdrawal idea that our historic shared civic systems of equity and justice are irrelevant to those with money but they use the system to enforce that irrelevance onto powerless people
A court has ruled that a couple that was in a severe crash during an Uber ride can’t sue the company because they and their daughter agreed to arbitration when they accepted the terms of service for a separate Uber Eats order.
A married New Jersey couple that was in a severe accident during an Uber ride can’t sue the company because they and their daughter agreed to arbitration when they accepted the terms of service for a ...
They lock up the heroes and reward the villains. As the climate emergency bites, everything is wrong with our response. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
I'll never forget the staff meeting where the senior engineer, who always knitted during meetings, said at the ending, "Well, I got an inch of sock out of that; I don't know what the rest of you got." She went on to become a professional sock designer and wrote a book on reading charts.
This is not about protecting art. This is about protecting the same systems of beliefs and values that are driving the problem. They value it more than they value human life itself.
there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*
Nature Human Behaviour - From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts...
With mild infection in healthy participants who received a SARS-CoV-2 challenge there was evidence of persistent cognitive and memory changes at least one year after Covid, compared with uninfected controls www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
