Category: Health
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Cars Passing Bikes: Do Gutter Bunnies Dress in Wigs?
Interesting news about how drivers act around bicyclists…there seems to be a space about 3 feet away from the curb. Too close to the gutter, and they assume they can pass closer. Also, lack of helmet and having long hair apparently promote further passing distance. Read more at cyclious and streetsblog. Remember — be conspicuous…
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Seattle Street Safety Numbers (Crosscut)
Here is a rather precise article comparing Seattle pedestrian, bicyclist and auto accidents with the citation rate between 2008-2010. It’s one thing to promote “share the road” but it’s also another thing to actually make streets safer. It appears about 10x more dangerous to be a pedestrian than a cyclist, and traffic citations appear to…
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Reflective kids vest, group order
I’m putting together a group order for reflective kids vests (Safetybright.com). Let me know if you’re interested. Plain yellow vest Yellow V with blinkies
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Can We Teach Independence and Fear Simultaneously?
Good post. Bruce Schneier probably has something similar to say on a lot of these topics. Teaching our kids to be afraid of everything definitely has consequences. A lot of things we casually do – like eating while driving, are far more likely to have severe consequences than letting them walk to school. Post on…
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Carmageddon: Why cower, bite your nails and stay home?
#carmageddon as a hash-tag seems so strangely appropriate for something as mundane as a freeway closure. It doesn’t deserve any more hype than what Twitter could provide, the subject really exposes society’s relationship to inconvenience — something hardly worth celebrating to begin with. Carmageddon challenge[slate] Carmageddon coverage [slate] I think it’s great to see these…
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This is a great summary of the economic benefits to bicycling.
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TSA cagey on cancer risk?
Interesting. One wonders what the exposure rate for standing in line for those back-scatter and the luggage x-ray things are. Worth noting that the safey regulations on those things are prolly totally vain–have you ever seen how tightly cramped the security areas get? http://www.infowars.com/cancer-surges-in-body-scanner-operators-tsa-launches-cover-up/ (I saw this link via bear454)
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Closer examination of the details reveals that increased coal shipments have the potential for significant harm to the communities through which this coal will travel.
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