Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

“Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford, 1955. Arguably the most important quote in city-building ever. READ my past (but still totally relevant) #Planetizen post.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/53659

#cities #cars #traffic #urbanism #congestion #transportation #UrbanPlanning #mobility

#HS2 WILL go all the way to #Euston, the #Chancellor has said - amid confusion over whether parts of the project had been scrapped.

Jeremy Hunt has said he does not see any "conceivable circumstance" in which HS2 would not end in central #London.
But lets get it all the way to Inverness so internal UK #air travel becomes obsolete with better investment more widely in public transport

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-hunt-says-hs2-go-29066243

Rainforest? Turn left after the drawbridge! Inside #Madrid’s eye-popping living #school
Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a #garden and a #spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. #architecture #Spain https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/17/reggio-school-andres-jaque-madrid-rainforest-zig-zag?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#ForestFriday #ClayoquotSound 🌲🌲🌲

#SaveOldGrowth #protectOldGrowth #SacredForests #Ancientforests #WorthMoreStanding #OldGrowth #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #BritishColumbia #Canada #TemperateRainforest #LungsOfTheEarth #CarbonSinks #ClimateChange #environmental #biodiversity #ecosystems #Nature #DisabledHiker #HikingPhotos #WorldInMyEyes #samsung8 #CellphonePhotos #MyNaturePhotos #Trees #ThinkTrunks #ElderTrees #ecology #SaveOurForests #StopDeforestation

Tuesday Blues

If you enjoy this post or my work in general please drop me a #follow and consider giving this post a #boost

#DailyShots #Photomonday #Photographer #Photography #DailyPhotos #NeilEvansRocks #London #CanaryWharf #Docklands #Weather #tuesdayvibes

It’s a beautiful if very cold day in london.
The city looks beautiful, and I’ve picked up the first daffodils of the year.

#photographer #photography #dailyphoto #dailyphotos #dailyshot #creative #creator #london #cityoflondon #StreetPhotography #boost #follow

That cloud is giving the impression we’ve just avoided the apocalypse…

#DailyShots #Photomonday #Photographer #Photography #DailyPhotos #NeilEvansRocks #London #Meteor #OddCloud #NotUFO

Another #introduction I’m Neil, I’m a #photographer #filmmaker and full time #creator, you might also occasionally see or hear me on the #tv or #radio

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I talk about the #creatoreconomy #food #travel #photography #films #london #politics and more. Say hello, let’s chat, let’s follow! 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

World Leprosy Day 2023
#Leprosy #infectiousdisease

29 January 2023
This international day is an opportunity to celebrate people who have experienced leprosy, raise awareness of the disease, and call for an end to leprosy-related stigma and discrimination.

Visit the WHO information to learn more about the 2023 World Leprosy Day theme: "Act Now. End Leprosy."

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/01/29/default-calendar/act-now-end-leprosy-wld-2023

Missing Radioactive Capsule Prompts Search and Concern in Australia - In the Australian Outback, authorities are engaged in an unusual search-and-recovery effo... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/missing-radioactive-capsule-prompts-search-and-concern-in-australia-11675068420?mod=rss_Technology #paid

I wrote about the remarkable, multi-dimensional progress that we've been seeing recently for engineering T cells to address refractory medical conditions https://erictopol.substack.com/p/engineering-t-cells

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean. Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque. This rarely-seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean. Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

I wonder how many folks out there know you can take just about any course at MIT for free.

They just post everything online after the in-person course is complete. Lectures, supplements, tests, everything.

New housing district Merwede in the center of Utrecht:
6,000 homes for 10,000 people.
21,500 indoor bicycle parking places.
0 parking places and no roads for cars.
1,500 underground parking spaces at the edges, €200/month each.
In @nrc today.

COMPETITION ALERT: “The aim is to build an exciting, modern urban quarter for at least 10k residents & 5k workplaces, focused on eco-friendly transportation & land use as part of a carbon-neutral urban environment.”

BIG ambition by #Reykjavik on this international competition! Former Vienna Vice-Mayor Maria Vassilakou & I are jurors and advisors.

Info: https://betrisamgongur.is/keldnaland/

Competition document: https://betrisamgongur.is/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Keldur-Competition-Brief.pdf

❓ Have you ever wondered what makes you you? This is a complicated question to answer in humans where we can’t control every single thing that a human experiences for their whole life.

🐟 This week, writer Kara McGaughey talks about how a group of neuroscientists used a genetically identical group of fish to answer this question.

Read her post to find out whether the fish were born with their individuality or if they developed their individuality over time.

https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/01/24/when-did-you-become-you/

#scienceCommunication #sciComm #neuroscience #brain #psychology #individuality #fish