Laurie Winkless

Fewer Than 2% Of Older Pedestrians Can Cross The Street In Time The length of the green signal on pedestrian crossings assumes that people can walk at a speed of 1.2 m/s. Scientists find that very few older people can walk that fast.

Less than 2% of older pedestrians with #mobility limitations can cross the street within the time many crossings allow!🚶‍♀️

A small design assumption with big consequences for safety and accessibility.

Great read by @lauriewinkless.bsky.social for @forbes.com

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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

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If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Fewer Than 2% Of Older Pedestrians Can Cross The Street In Time The length of the green signal on pedestrian crossings assumes that people can walk at a speed of 1.2 m/s. Scientists find that very few older people can walk that fast.

My March story for @forbes.com has just gone live. It's all about pedestrian crossings and how the timings they're based on no longer match the demographics of our cities ⚛️🧪👩‍🔬
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"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

Great to hear!

WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOU ABOUT CHRISTIAN ZIONISM

I do #needlefelting as craft but this is needle felting as art 😍

I saw this on Instagram. Incredible 😍🤩

Yep that's the one I got. It arrived earlier this week apparently so I got lucky on timing!

😂

Amuseables Sports Cariss Curling Stone Buy Amuseables Sports Cariss Curling Stone online from the Official Jellycat store. Shop authentic Jellycat stuffed toys and gifts. International delivery available.

Oh no. Someone alerted me to the existence of a curling stone soft toy. <whispers idontneedit idontneedit idontneedit> 🥌 share.google/itm8PFp9MRNw...

This is my skincare lineup (+ sunblock + an oil cleanser that I've run out of). Moisturizer + eye cream: every day. Toner + serum: couple of times a week. Microfoliant: once a week (this is my holy grail product). Retinol, oil, night cream: when I remember 😂

I love this!

A palm-sized curling stone made from common green granite from Ailsa Craig in Scotland. It had a gold handle

I will warn you that the "mini wee curling stones" from the Olympics are all sold out but Kays do occasionally release other, slightly-less-mini curling stones made from Aila Craig granite. My husband surprised me with one a couple of years ago 🥌

What Happens To Olympic Curling Stones After The Games? YouTube video by Ruth Aisling

Absolutely delightful video from Ruth Aisling, all about what will happen to some of the #curling stones used at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 🥌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYjN...

Yes, that's what the pharmacist told me too - flu jabs expected in early April x

Covid hospitalisations climb as New Zealand enters new wave There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

Thanks to this article, I went from "I must get my booster before winter" to "I will get my booster this week". So today, between meetings, I went to my local pharmacy as a walk-in. The entire process (including the precautionary hanging around afterwards) took 15 mins. Get to it Kiwis #nz

Thanks so much 😊

Ha! You're very kind ❤️ I'll take a photo of my skincare lineup later today 😊 Tbh now that I'm in my 40s, I should probably be doing much more / being more disciplined about it than I am 😂

Remember back in 2018 when seniror RNZ manager Carol Hirschfeld lost her job after it was revealed she'd had a secret meeting with Broadcasting Minister Claire Curran. Who was later sacked from Cabinet by PM Jacinda Ardern after a second downlow meeting was revealed.

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows | RNZ News Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Half of NZers agreed billionaires shouldn't exist while people struggle with basic necessities

68% supported billionaires being taxed more

37% were in favour of introducing a billion-dollar wealth cap to minimise the amount of wealth any person could legally hold

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

My latest "forcing myself to be on camera" summary of a recent article. I did this in one take (you can tell 😂) and I'm trying not to obsess over my filler words or odd facial expressions. The study I'm talking about is genuinely fascinating. It's linked from my article 🧪⚛️
tinyurl.com/mt7xx46w

This story needs a correction. It is absolutely true that admissions are the highest since October, but 184 admissions is the last 4 weeks (to 16 Feb), not last week (to 16 Feb). 184 in a week is 2022 levels. This would be much easier to keep track of if we had the data rather than a Power BI report

Overhead shot of snowy intersection with yellow cabs and dotted lines outlining where snow has created space that can be a future bike lane, public plaza and pedestrian refuge.

New BONUS episode: "What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour.)"

All the snow we've gotten has revealed some truths about what cars do to cities, and what we can learn from it. We also give our thoughts on Miami, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Phoenix!

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incredible, he did the joke

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

Article spiked because I couldn't secure a key interview 😫

Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.

To manually turn off go to:

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off