"Dr. Pam Valenza wasn’t immediately alarmed by the construction outside Tepeyac Community Health Center."

"It is the first time scientists have declared that Earth has likely reached a so-called "tipping point": a shift that could trigger massive and often permanent changes in the natural world."

Politicians' inaction in the face of the climate crisis is undermining our planet's ability to support life

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change !

La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine.

"The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... "

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Now that I'm on Amtrak home, it's time for another urbanism thread - this time, on New York City! I'll cover biking, walking, and transit. 🧵

First, walkability - NYC is great to walk, and @jeffspeck.bsky.social's work basically explains why - it's fun, comfortable, and has lots of things to see!