The American “transportation engineer” is a civil engineer with little exposure to transportation. They can answer questions about infrastructure. But they can't answer questions about how to balance congestion with safety, pollution or quality of life
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/america-has-no-transportation-engineers
Thanks to everyone who came to my Columbus Science Pub talk last night. Amazed to see a full house for a lecture with "death" in the title. But as my question to the audience at the beginning showed, almost everyone has been touched by traffic violence. We can stop this.
Why is bariatric surgery not effective for some patients? The neighborhood where they live can have a big impact. In this study, we find patients who lived within a 10 minute walk to food stores had better weight loss two years after surgery.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550728922008292
They purged the names of Black writers and scholars and removed topics like Black Lives Matter. And they added something new: “Black conservatism” is now offered as an idea for a research project. So awful. (gifted article, no paywall)
New mapping tools released by the US Department of Transportation highlight stark geographical and economic inequities in where road deaths occur. (Link to mapping tools below.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/02/01/road-safety-deaths-buttigieg/
It’s sneckdown time! (snow + neckdown: a restriction to calm traffic). Snow reveals how much less street space drivers need when they travel at safer, reasonable speeds. Giving them more space only encourages reckless driving, including making turns at unsafe speeds.
Columbus Science Pub: Death By Design - Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:30 pm
https://upfrontps.org/events/columbus-science-pub-death-by-design-2/
ChatGPT Forced To Take Bar Exam Even Though Dream Was To Be AI Art Bot
https://www.theonion.com/chatgpt-forced-to-take-bar-exam-even-though-dream-was-t-1850036337
Is flying to conferences etc necessary for academic success? A study of UBC faculty finds there is no clear relationship between the amount of travel and the production of high quality research papers.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/06/21/do-the-best-academics-fly-more/
New methods for making artificial snow at warm temperatures contribute to the global warming that ski resorts are battling
A research team reviewed 7000 published studies and found the way we design our built environment increases loneliness.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/01/27/are-you-lonely-its-not-you-its-the-way-weve-built-our-nation/
It was ChatGPT.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/ted-lieu-chatgpt-ai-bill-congress-rcna67944
Serious gaming about the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/28/board-games-climate-crisis-daybreak
A car-dominated transportation system is brittle: a single vehicle crash can shut down a major corridor for hours. A multimodal transportation system is more resilient.
The Colorado River is in crisis, and the seven states that rely on its water cannot agree on cuts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/climate/colorado-river-biden-cuts.html
