Distracted Driving Is More Dangerous Than People Realize, New Research Shows - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/distracted-driving-is-more-dangerous-than-people-realize-new-research-shows/

#VisionZero #SciAm #CarDependency #BikeTooter

@laurahelmuth I try to maintain that same level of incomprehensible communication with my kids, nieces and nephews. They sigh a lot and are careful what they ask me because some of the answers require precise language of course!

I hope that at some point in my scientific career I write something that warrants a mention in #SciAm though, 7 years to retirement age and I'm pretty specialized so don't hold out to much hope!

Reading on a vacation is a favourite pastime but it’s the first time I get to read charts by Voilà: in a major magazine

#dataviz #sciam

Every solution we come up with seems to potentially make something worse!

Hackers Could Use Electric Vehicle Chargers to Attack the Power Grid

Hackers have already infiltrated electric vehicle chargers, usually for innocuous reasons, but bad actors could use that foothold to bring down the power grid

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hackers-could-use-electric-vehicle-chargers-to-attack-the-power-grid/

#SciAm #EV #Electric #powergrid

U.S. #Offshore #Wind Industry Is ‘Coming to Life’

The #Biden Administration approves a third big project, this one near the Atlantic City gambling hub

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-offshore-wind-industry-is-coming-to-life/

#SciAm #WindTurbines #climatechange #renewables

We know that wildfire smoke can cause tiny particles (PM2.5) to lodge in the lungs resulting in asthma attacks, bronchitis, heart attacks, etc. In addition, it can react with urban air pollution to create a toxic ozone.

“When unhealthy ozone levels are present, the EPA recommends staying indoors, buying an air purifier, limiting outdoor recreation to the early morning and evening and wearing an N95 mask.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wildfire-smoke-reacts-with-city-pollution-creating-new-toxic-air-hazard/
#wildfires #airpollution #toxicair #sciam

"Paleoclimatologists are racing to find Earth’s oldest ice to use its trapped air to directly measure #GreenhouseGas levels from some three million years back—when temperatures were about 2-3 degrees Celsius warmer and sea levels were about 20m higher than today. This could give scientists a better idea of how much temperatures may rise in the future."

Inside the Race to Find Earth’s Oldest Ice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-race-to-find-earths-oldest-ice/

#SciAm #climate #climatechange #envhist #environment

Clovis points in Michigan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU90tn4mZ_M

#archeology #sciam

@bespacific

I would characterize our vaccines as serendipitously effective at discouraging hyperinflammatory crisis, but terrible at preventing chronic infection. Treatments are lackluster and difficult to access. Precautions have been thrown to the wind.

Cancelled my 20+ year sub to #SciAm after they started printing normalcy propaganda. Even if everything after the opener is accurate, it betrays a willingness to manipulate readers to false conclusions. They are not to be trusted on Covid.

#Autistit ovat osa ihmisten moninaisuutta, diversiteettiä, eivät korjattava asia. Kuten vasenkätisyys, punatukkaisuus jne. #SciAm

"The neurodiversity movement, which fights stigma, [ ... ] A 2018 paper, for example, found a link between trying hard to “pass” as nonautistic and a higher risk of suicide. The struggle to keep up a “neurotypical” appearance pulls attention from other things, says Ari Ne’eman, who co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-treatment-shifts-away-from-fixing-the-condition/