And home…
Les vélotafeurs ne sont pas des cyclistes…
Vélotafeurs et cyclistes n’ont pas le même risque : en 2025, l’ONISR recense 141 cyclistes tués hors agglomération, contre 93 en ville.
Source: Les vélotafeurs ne sont pas des cyclistes, et tant mieux
This confirms something that we’ve always known. Cycling on a town bike to work is not the same as getting dressed in lycra and training on a bike. They need to be treated as different.
Effect of Foreign Ideas on U.S. Innovation…
Diversity of backgrounds and ideas. Nothing is more important on the cutting edge.
Using the historical settlement of migrants as a source of exogenous variation in local ancestry, we show that U.S. counties more exposed to knowledge from a given foreign country absorb substantially more technologies from that country and, in turn, invent significantly more U.S. technologies building on them.
The Causal Effect of Foreign Ideas on U.S. Innovation – Marginal REVOLUTION
Diverted to Austria…
The Alps…
Porto Entrance…
The Space Age…
https://kottke.org/26/11/stunning-image-of-our-satellite-choked-night-skies
70 years ago there was none. 50 years ago there were about 400 satellites. Today 20,290!!!
https://keeptrack.space/live-count/how-many-satellites-are-in-space
Paris-Saclay Running Tour…
Something to read an ponder on…
Understanding…
“There’s no way to write fiction and guarantee your readers will understand it correctly. There is no way you will ever be able to write something so straightforward that Elon Musk will understand it the way that you intend it.”
Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and guarantee y…
Or in Wilkinson speak, “I don’t know what you said but this is what I heard”.