davidho

davidho, 1 day ago to random

The fact that “alternative transportation” just means you’re not in a car tells you everything that’s wrong with our transportation system.

davidho, 3 days ago to random

Cycling makes you live longer and gives you something to live for.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/20/1251561467/biking-knee-pain-longevity-arthritis

davidho, 4 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Does watching polo make me an elitist?

#PennyFarthing

davidho, 7 days ago to random

I will never forgive Elon Musk for making Twitter so terrible that people think LinkedIn is acceptable to use.

gregpak, 7 days ago to BelieveInFilm

The great @davidho in NYC.

Accidentally underdeveloped these negatives by a LOT by using a 1:127 instead of a 1:31 solution of Legacy Pro L110. But Tri-X is a forgiving stock, thankfully!

Nikkormat EL, Nikkor-H 50mm f2, Kodak Tri-X 400.

#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter

davidho, 9 days ago to random

When you see the best selling vehicle in America on a French street, you realize how ridiculous it is that we let this infestation happen in the US.

📷: @briceperrin

davidzipper, 11 days ago to cars

In Fast Company, I wrote about how wild it is that Ford, GM, and Stellantis no longer offer any sedan models in the US.

That's bad for Americans -- and it's risky for the Big Three.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91123174/detroit-killed-the-sedan-we-may-all-live-to-regret-it

#cars #SUVs #transportation

davidho, 11 days ago to random

Is this a safe space to point out that the largest direct air capture plant in the world — designed to remove 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ each year — is a time machine that takes us back 28 seconds in a year? 🥲

https://wapo.st/3UTqMwC

davidho, 12 days ago to vegetarian

The real paleo diet was mostly plant-based. 🌱

#vegetarian

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02382-z

sellathechemist, 14 days ago to random

Of gizzards and osculators. The story of the man who made an alloy that would remain the same, while being reinvented into multipe high tech applications: nichrome aka chromel. #ClassicKit https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/marshs-wires-and-the-birth-of-the-toaster/4019457.article

davidho, 15 days ago to random

3°C is a political choice. Future generations will think very poorly of us.

davidho, 20 days ago to random

I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

davidho, 27 days ago to random

Folding bike vending machine 😍

davidho, 1 month ago to random

Deepwater Horizon was a huge environmental disaster that killed 11 people and cost BP more than $65 billion — but if that oil had been captured, sold, and used, it would be worse for the environment, killed more people, and BP would have made money.

The routine use of fossil fuels should be treated as a disaster.

@gwagner

https://gwagner.com/risky-climate-bp/

Carl_Zimmer, 1 month ago to random

One of the many reasons tardigrades are amazing: they can withstand a blast of gamma rays a thousand times greater than a lethal dose for humans. I wrote about their molecular secrets of survival. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/science/tardigrades-moss-piglets.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.j00.BPVj.aHBA0dEJIC-X&smid=url-share

davidho, 1 month ago to random

You’re not closing the street to cars, you’re opening it to people.

Video of people enjoying themselves on the street because there are no cars threatening to kill them.

sellathechemist, 1 month ago to random

Does anyone know whether there is a project to stock libraries in developing countries with unwanted academic journals from our offices? A colleague is downsizing and has over a decade of JACS that might end up in a recycling bin if there is no alternative. Can you spread the word as I'm curious about what we might be able to do. #academic #sharing #journals @dbellingradt do you and your histodons and bookdons know about this kind of thing?

davidho, 1 month ago to random

This piece came out a year ago…

I used the CO₂ removal (CDR) as a time machine analogy to argue that while we need to research and develop CDR because it’s needed in the future, CDR is useless as a climate solution until we decarbonize drastically.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00953-x

andrewdessler, 1 month ago to random

Problem with our neighborhood fusion generator

gwagner, 1 month ago to nyc

#NYC streets in 3 Acts:

Driver stops illegally in bike lane, hits deliverista on e-bike

Cyclists crashes, sits on ground visibly hurt; concerned onlookers call 911

By the time ambulance arrives, deliverista has hobbled back to his bike and zoomed away, more concerned that his delivery gets there on time than his own injury, perhaps even thinking that he'd have gotten into trouble had he talked to ambulance & police.

#NYC #bikeNYC #cycling @TheWarOnCars

Cyclists crashes, sits on ground visibly hurt; concerned onlookers call 911
By the time ambulance arrives, deliverista has hobbled back to his bike and zoomed away, more concerned that his delivery gets there on time than his own injury

davidho, 1 month ago to random

So y’all are obsessively checking the forecast hoping for a clear sky so you can NOT see the sun? 🤔

davidho, 1 month ago to MIjazz

How far away is #fusion energy? 8.33 minutes.

davidho, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

TIL that Kiribati 🇰🇮 is at a similar longitude as Hawaiʻi but it's a day (24 hours!) ahead because they're at UTC+14.

alexh, 1 month ago to random

It is bizarre to me that vegetarianism hasn't been increasing, not even slowly, over a period where support for LGBT increased enormously. Societal norms are weird.

davidho, 1 month ago to random

In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of #plastic.

That's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.