I like and use nebula too, but it isn't really a community, I don't think it has any way at all for users to communicate, no comments no profiles etc etc
I'm not american, does this committee actually hold the power to release them or is this just a recommendation/symbolic? If rule of law is followed (I know big if) does this guarantee the release or are there still hurdles?
People used to joke that they'll hear about an earthquake on Twitter before the the quake reaches them, this is the real life version of that which is pretty cool. Im a little concerned about the privacy of this system since surely they need your location in addition to accelerometer data to work but this seems like the sort of thing that might actually be worth it assuming it's implemented sanely.
500 per piece of art is barely out of the struggling to eat level of artist. Be mad that the ones making 50000 each.
A large blank canvas alone is like a 100 bucks. If they are charging minimum wage for their time (they shouldn't) and spend no money on brushes or paints that gives them 25hours per piece, which isn't really that much time to be honest. Then hopefully you make enough in prints to pay the exhibitions cut and for time and money you spent marketing, networking, negotiating etc
Obviously there's all kinds of art which different time and material commitments but 500 bucks really isn't all that unreasonable.
Well first off that paper is from 2025, but data collection for the OP study is as far back as 2009.
second this is the first line of the paper you indirectly linked:
current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate adiposity and provide inadequate information about health at the individual level, which undermines medically-sound approaches to health care and policy."
This study is not information at the individual level.
And here is a quote from later on in the abstract:
We recommend that BMI should be used only as a surrogate measure of health risk at a population level, for epidemiological studies, or for screening purposes, rather than as an individual measure of health.
E: OP's study actually cites the new obesity definition in it's methods to justify it's use of BMI:
Not all individuals with a BMI of 30 or higher will have impaired health or increased risk of death, and some individuals with a BMI below 30 may also have obesity.18 However, for population-level screening and surveillance, the use of BMI categories as a proxy for obesity in adults continues to be recommended.9,14
citation 14 is that study referenced in Scientific American!
This could be useful for rent a bike style stuff i guess, but my home bike has about a 40km range (and thats with no human power added), I will quite literally never charge it anywhere but home where I'm fine plugging in.
People listen to thousands of hours of rain or whale sounds, no one thinks "chill beats to study and vibe to" is high art either. I think that is the main market this is competing with not your favourite band or whatever.
Even if we intentionally released as much co2 as we could all life on earth is not at risk. Remember that there's a fair amount of life that is virtually unchanged since the paleozoic period when all that co2 was in the air. Beyond that there's stuff that hangs out in volcanic vents, rapidly evolving life that can adapt even to rapid change, bacteria, molds, mosses and algae. And who knows maybe there's even a small adaptable mammal or 2 that gets out and evolves enough for a second attempt at sapience.
Don't get me wrong the climate disaster is truly a unique and devastating extinction event, but humans are not so powerful as to leave the earth a completely lifeless rock.
+1 for the etrike, (I have a emmo tropic C myself) I find cars respect me way more in it and I can pull way more awkward loads not having to worry about balance. I found an electric anything ends up giving me way more exercise than a regular bike, since I'll attempt trips I otherwise wouldn't because of steep hills or heavy loads.
Be careful the first time you go on tilted ground with it though. My instinct as a biker was to keep the bike perfectly upright, which obviously isn't how trikes work. I turned into the slope and ran into a wall. XD
It's not even really about speed. My induction stovetop boils water much much faster than my kettle, but I use the kettle because it can be used unattended, go to a specific temperature, and hold a temperature.
I like and use nebula too, but it isn't really a community, I don't think it has any way at all for users to communicate, no comments no profiles etc etc