Emily Manson
@egmanson.bsky.social
Mostly reading not posting, about climate crisis, cool history stuff, cute animals.
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In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵
September 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵
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I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet
“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors
And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this
And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this
I firmly believe that if you’d said to someone in 2015 that in 10 years, “a lot of people will believe there’s no need for human field reporters because they think that entirely online-based AI chat bots can replace them”, they’d have called you insane.
August 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet
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More than 100 nights a year, immigrant workers go out to farmland in southern Ontario and pick hundreds of thousands of nightcrawlers. How Ontario became the worm capital of the world: thelocal.to/ontario-nigh...
On the Hunt for Nightcrawlers in the Worm-Picking Capital of the World | The Local
Nearly all bait worms sold in North America are hand-plucked from farmland in this part of Canada. But with labour shortages and climate change, some worry we’re witnessing the final wiggles of a once...
thelocal.to
July 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
More than 100 nights a year, immigrant workers go out to farmland in southern Ontario and pick hundreds of thousands of nightcrawlers. How Ontario became the worm capital of the world: thelocal.to/ontario-nigh...
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“Historically, no one lived past age 35”
"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.
A demography myth that won't die
jenndowd.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“Historically, no one lived past age 35”
"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
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This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
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Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City
Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.
nyc.streetsblog.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
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If you are looking for some hopeful climate news in these otherwise bleak times, read today's column by Chris Hatch about the U.K.'s remarkable reduction in GHGs. Their planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. Puts Canada to shame. 👇 www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
A ray of sunshine breaks through the climate doom
www.nationalobserver.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you are looking for some hopeful climate news in these otherwise bleak times, read today's column by Chris Hatch about the U.K.'s remarkable reduction in GHGs. Their planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. Puts Canada to shame. 👇 www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
This is one of those very cool, but also low-hanging fruit ideas that should be funded way ahead of carbon capture etc.
🌱🐑 Agrivoltaics—combining solar panels with farming—keeps expanding, with projects proving it boosts food production, protects soil, and cuts water use. Big energy players like Shell are getting involved, and studies show the approach could meet a significant portion of national energy needs.
Solar Supports Food Production
Solar supports food: Agrovoltaics is moving past proof-of-concept, showing that sheep, bees, and wide array of crops harmonize perfectly with solar panels.
www.theenergymix.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is one of those very cool, but also low-hanging fruit ideas that should be funded way ahead of carbon capture etc.
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The same goes for transit as well as routes for active travel. If you build good infrastructure, people use it and the whole city benefits.
February 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The same goes for transit as well as routes for active travel. If you build good infrastructure, people use it and the whole city benefits.
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One thing I have said before and will say again and again: you can narrow your focus and help one other person.
@blackamazon.bsky.social boils it down to "does baby have hat?"
You can put a literal hat on a literal baby and you will have taken action to make the world less awful, so go do that.
@blackamazon.bsky.social boils it down to "does baby have hat?"
You can put a literal hat on a literal baby and you will have taken action to make the world less awful, so go do that.
"What can I do against Trump, I'm just a..."
Yeah, what could a weirdo photographer Surrealist do? Convince the Germans that two people was a whole resistance movement, and absolutely slaughter morale, with a bunch of running pranks, it turns out.
Find your lane, people, and work it hard.
Yeah, what could a weirdo photographer Surrealist do? Convince the Germans that two people was a whole resistance movement, and absolutely slaughter morale, with a bunch of running pranks, it turns out.
Find your lane, people, and work it hard.
February 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
One thing I have said before and will say again and again: you can narrow your focus and help one other person.
@blackamazon.bsky.social boils it down to "does baby have hat?"
You can put a literal hat on a literal baby and you will have taken action to make the world less awful, so go do that.
@blackamazon.bsky.social boils it down to "does baby have hat?"
You can put a literal hat on a literal baby and you will have taken action to make the world less awful, so go do that.
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Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers," but his advice was for CHILDREN.
If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper.
I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.
If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper.
I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.
February 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers," but his advice was for CHILDREN.
If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper.
I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.
If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper.
I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.
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Thought that since some people like to talk endlessly about saving women's sports that I'd make a list of the most pressing issues that need addressing to improve the lives of female athletes. Would be awesome if these folks took a break from the one-note culture war to help address these.
February 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Thought that since some people like to talk endlessly about saving women's sports that I'd make a list of the most pressing issues that need addressing to improve the lives of female athletes. Would be awesome if these folks took a break from the one-note culture war to help address these.