What a life. Rest in peace, Bob Newhart…

Motonormativity is fretting that an ambulance might have been held up by a protest but not worrying about ambulances that are delayed by traffic every day of the year transportxtra.com/publications/l…

One of the best SNL early sketches came in season one, episode 2. When 6'8 Connie Hawkins challenged 5'3 Paul Simon to one on one. 😂😂😂😂

Magic, magic

When we build bigger roads, we get more traffic. Congestion briefly gets better, then the same, then worse. £Billions is spent in the process. Instead of dualling roads, what if we used the space for active travel instead? Here’s a thread on why it should happen.🧵

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This deserves a platinum medal

Two class acts 💚

On this day, 20th August 1977, the single greatest shot in television history was filmed. James Burke had one chance to film this perfectly timed launch of Voyager 2 at Cape Canaveral. If he missed, there would have been no chance to re shoot it.

An even shorter 🧵 on how European budget airlines can afford to deliver such cheap flights. They pay no fuel tax and they force the enormous environmental costs of their operations onto the taxpayers and sectors that have to clean up after them. That’s it. That’s the thread.

Let's have a serious conversation about the phrase "unskilled labor". Economists have used that phrase for as long as I've studied economics. At some point I became inured to it falsely thinking it's no judgment, just trying to classify workers. That's wrong. It's horrible. 🧵

After reading the RSA's 'mission' on its website I don't think it should exist at all. Use licence money to resource An Garda Síochána to make roads safer? Incentives better aligned that way - it ain't the RSA going to crashes or having to tell families a loved one is dead

Some people think motor vehicles & bicycles should be treated the same on public streets. Those people are not to be taken seriously.

"How are you going carry a real load with a damn bicycle? We'll always need trucks in cities." #Hamburg: We see your beer-keg delivery, #London, and raise you a refrigerator. Or three. 📽️CargoCycle_official Welcome to the #cargobikeolympics ! (SVP, reply with more heavy-hauler bikes)

Next week I'm giving a presentation on commercial determinants of health research being conducted in Ireland. I'd really appreciate it if people could comment any details of #CDoH research that you're involved with or that you know of. RTs appreciated

"When two cars crash, a 1,000lb increase in the weight of one vehicle raised the fatality rate in the other by 47%." Externalities. economist.com/interactive/un…

1/9 The Fiscal Council's latest report assesses the Government’s plans for Budget 2025. In it, we warn that the Government is adding more pressure to an economy posting record jobs numbers by continuing to breach its tax-and-spend rule.

Maradona in Bayern Munich colours seems like a vision trick, and that’s before even seeing what he does with the ball at his feet. And almost every other part of his body, actually.

A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week. Obviously, the problem isn’t that Musk is expressing his opinions, which is his freedom of speech. It isn’t that Musk has

As a proponent of both science and sugar, this is very poor #JusticeforJam