Lucia Walinchus

5/5 Note: please forget I posted this if you see me watching a @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social game.

Of course I can predict, from the comfort of my couch, where passes should have been thrown and can express my opinion as such.😂

4/5 It’s behind a paywall, but here is the full cite: www.nature.com/articles/nn....

3/5 But maybe top basketball players are just better at predicting ball trajectory?

Scientists then tested the players to see if they could predict who would make a soccer penalty shot. The basketball players were no better than average. So short answer… no. Or not in all sports.

120 LEONARD ZAICHKOWSKY AND DANIEL PETERSON down, you tap a copy of that off and run it into your neural simulator to anticipate the sensory consequences of your actions.? tion." 24 Wolpert terms this "the optimal way of combining informa-This movement analysis system is so useful that we even call on it, subconsciously, to predict the movements of others. Since we have mastered the task of dribbling a basketball, we under. stand the physics of the motion, even when watching someone else do it. While observing a player with the ball coming at us, our brain monitors the ball using the same combination of visual stimuli and internal prediction code as if we were dribbling. Experienced players use this finely tuned monitoring program to anticipate and guard oncoming attackers. In a fascinating example of this, Italian researchers found that expert basketball players could predict the success of another player's jump shot before the ball even left the hand of the shooter." They asked three groups of volunteers—professional basketball players, coaches, and those who never watch basketball-to view partial video clips of jump shots, then guess if the shot went in or missed; both were equally represented in the sample of shots. The video was stopped at several different points, including before the ball left the shooter's hand to several points in the arc of the shot toward the basket. By comparing expert players to coaches, the researchers tried to tease apart the neural advantages of playing the sport versus just watching the sport. Sure enough, the players were better and faster at predicting the outcome of a shot than either the coaches or the neutral ob-servers, even before the ball had left the shooter's fingers. "This indicates that elite athletes, but not expert watchers or novices, were able to extract relevant information on the fate of the shots at the basket by using kinematic cues from the player's body movements," the researchers concluded. THE PLAYMAKER'S ADV…

2/5 like sports journalists and coaches. It seems there’s something about playing a game that intrinsically teaches you about physics.

Book cover of The playmaker’s advantage by Leonard Zaichkowsky and Daniel Peterson

1/5: Fascinating: researchers recruited elite basketball players, avid basketball fans, and regular folks to predict who would make a basket in a series of videos showing people about to shoot.

Players were much better at successfully predicting this. Even over “expert” watchers

Gah I mean 2024. I think I need more coffee!

Note: this could be better labeled- it's really an aggregate of everyone's mean. So on average New Yorkers spent ~593.33 years commuting to work in 2023. And that is ALL those who work outside the home in that area.

Thank you @ryebreadnyc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy for helping me clarify that!

Showing the Census B08013_001 variable, Estimate!!Aggregate travel time to work (in minutes) and it's breakdown by sex.

It's the mean commute time per year for all commuters. If you want to look at any variables use
vars <- load_variables(2023, "acs1", cache = TRUE).

So here we are filtering for B08013_001:

I should label this better though- thank you for pointing this out- it's a sum of the average for everyone.

Mean commute times for several cities per year. Data from the American Community Survey

Wow commute times in NYC are solidly twice per year what they are in any other major city.

I would take an hour on a train though over half that in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Created in #rstats using @kylewalker.bsky.social's #tidycensus

What the duck

Do you have data that's more granular than "region?" Like city or state?

How does this differ from ggplot2?

Just dropped, eh?😂

Ha! Now you definitely have to give the miniseries version a try. Anything less would shortchange the brilliance of Jane Austen.

For example, Firth in the Pemberly scene is the awkwardness and hilarity of all of us stumbling upon, and trying to impress, our crush.

And now I think I want to read Crabgrass Frontier! He references it a few times as you can imagine.

Not in depth. But he briefly mentions the decline of their churches, who actually see a steeper dropoff even.

And he discusses the rise of Republican support among evangelicals and more conservative Catholics.

Sorry I can’t as I work for NBC.

But thank you for all you do. I think everyone, especially journalists should learn history to be better informed about how issues affect our readers and viewers.

9/9 A few folks who may be interested in reading this:
@urbanhistory.bsky.social @daviddarmofal.bsky.social
@gucstpubliclife.bsky.social @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social @richraho.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social

8/9 And all my usual caveats: I bought this book with my own money and no one asked me to read it. I don’t know the author and I don’t agree with everything he wrote. This isn’t an endorsement and I can’t properly review so many pages in a few posts. These are just highlights.

7/9 What about an areas where property taxes weren’t as high? Did they see as many school closures? Were they able to maintain better community ties? If anyone knows of good further reading on these questions please let me know.

6/9 I now have a host of questions, not answered by this book, which focuses on NYC and suburbanization: what about other places in America in the world?

For example, Europe has fewer suburbs. But didn’t they see many of the same changes?

132 / Chapter Five saipulations, however, went unheeded, indicating that even as ta re he challenged his parishioners, "because of black and poor" peolen t raculous Medal. "I want you to hear the Gospel," Connolly pled and territorial definitions of the parish increasingly los their mannt remained.2 the suburban Church the racial boundares nhat de het Cathole pace body of American Catholicism, a process that had begun as ach ei ous ethnically inflected forms of Catholicism into one religouty ines Postwar suburbanization helped complete the amalgamation of group became further removed from the experience of immigration. la Postwar suburbs laity who had seen themselves as frish, Pollsh or kule set themselves simply as Catholic, Parishes established to serve burpen immigrants shed their ethnic affiliations and the names of new wbut Catholics when they lived in urban ethnie enclaves came incuralle parishes, the feasts and rituals they observed, and the lay amocation du animated them were no longer dehned by ethnicity. However, because suburbla's deep racial segregation, newly suburbanized Catholic ahor ing wartime and suburban homeownership in the postwar period bestones creasingly identified themselves as white. Loyal support of the nationd. of talian Catholics in particular yatus as white Americans which to had frequently been denied in past generations. Despite the bes elfors ol Church leaders and some lay activists to support civil rights and parib is tegration, others among the laity sought to maintain residential sees tion and defined the boundaries of their parish through racial exclusi Meanwhile, suburbia's comparatively small community of Black Cabdis demanded that their Church live up to its teachings on race and racim. ad address their unique needs. Even as the civil rights movement progressed toward its denoueen. Latin American immigration to Long Island, which had begun in the 1950% increased dramatically in the 1970s. The Diocese of Rockville Centre and is…

5/9 In some ways suburbanization led to positive changes- ethnic groups became much more integrated. But redline mortgage policies meant that black Catholics were still segregated.

of religious educatio their own chill or at nily 160 first-gradere eceived religious inse n calechetical centen. o d like longstandinaces i such programs chang oyed new methods dis necessitated by arept directors of Our Lety & conary world; in wit earning about God, te nan now …with main raine Smith, a voltes efended this nev mobs eed students as they has , discuss, to debar te ever, Smith admined o teachers*, who taugna us X Parish in Plainies, hurch was "facing and faith." Religion trashes ecause they stressed te parents to pray that thei ole disintegration taking enters was by no mes there was near uninese san officials that, com rograms were waily the faith. Andren Ge-ot a functional alteme of certain liberal Catte teological objectios a 4 percent of Carat n his weekly syndica education programs do atholic schools-mutt NOUS CCD enthusia at Suburban Catholic Education / 177 the 1960s thought it would be." Although his 1976 study. Catholic Schools in a Declining Church, had shown that CCD produced very little if any effect on those who have participated in it," Greeley suggested that such programs ma cuilt reducer" for bishops and pastors who were too lazy to raise the money" to keep parochial schools open, and for parents who thought "a bigger car is more important than parochial school tuition.*19 In 1972, even Mary Perkins Ryan, who had argued that parochial schools should be replaced with afterschool catechetical programs, wrote that concerns about the state of religious education were "becoming increasingly urgent." She confessed that she had been "astonishingly naive" to suggest, as she had in 1964, that the Liturgy "could become by itself the chief means of Christian education for individuals and communities. * Such assessments marked a drastic shift from the euphoria of the 1950s suburban building boom and the optimism surrounding religious education in the 1960s. While not ascribing blame as Greeley had, many priests of the Diocese of Rockville Centre str…

Teaching sisters in Nassau and Suffolk counties from 1945 to 1985

4/9 Parish schools depended on the free labor of sisters. When fewer women entered the convent, the cost of schools soared even higher which drove more parents to take their children out of parish schools as they became more expensive.

Religion classes didn’t have quite the same impact as schools.

102 / Chapter Four the people and they had come "out strong in grabbing it Week*" ions, not answers " Rechill said.? Suburtan panshes dramatically altered the balance of power bes sens and laly by transpining Priesty ministry the relicou pet the laity joined, and the role laymen and women played in thelda. of the Church.' Rechill's rhetoric about the founding and devdo s St Gerard a telected the spun of vaucan do al Rechll himsell ward tes so alteh a Break from the sobered parishes ot the prottro decade a de Fruition of the changes that suburbanization wrought on Catholic pant lay associations paests, and laypeople. At discused in chapter LeaF the faithful to take up the lay apostolate and Catholic Action dated bad a least to the 1930s, but postwar suburbanization accelcrated and dhended lay partsparon in the mintes and adminttration of the Chutch t led to a graduat tane or author from cent to laty. in norty be suburbs, power structures were often completely open and louble" on sense of ownership ord their panshes, and the suburbs insufhcent nuns of clergy and religious drove the laity into previously unthinkable ata ol ministry, most especially the religious instruction of youth Suburbia's emphasis on domesticity and family life also changed the types of lay associations that the faithful joined. Traditional parish socie like the Holy Name Society and the Rosary Society, which were single gr der, met in parish facilities and focused on bringing members togthat for ritual prayer and service to the parish community gave way to family apos Colates. These new associations welcomed couples, were based in famin homes and were aimed more at training members for family life, buildins small community, and providing avenues of service to the broader com munity than providing a communal spirituality. Unlike traditional parish societies, the family apostolates were also founded and led by laypeople which furthered the expectation that a highly educated laity would now be able …

3/9 Suburban parishes struggled to provide for more people with fewer resources.

Grade school students in Parish schools in Nassau and Suffolk counties from 1945 to 1985

10 / Introduction largest denomination. 24 because Catholic historians have long lamented that mainstream histories of twentieth-century America rarely engage with Catholicism despite the Fact that one in four Ameticans is Catholic, and they comprise the nation's Such engagement with American Catholics requires meeting them where gued, the "transformation of the United States into a suburban nation" is scholarly omission, because as Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue have they live. The history of suburbia is particularly useful in correcting this to the formation of postwar suburbs. Crabgrass Catholicism, indeed, shows how the study of US Catholicism, with its hierarchical leadership and its central to the story of postwar America.25 American Catholics were essentia structure of archdioceses, dioceses, and parishes, allows for a truly metro politan approach to urban, political, and religious history. It argues that formed, were crucial in creating suburban infrastructure and culture. It also the ecclesial institutions Catholics built, and the faith communities they shows, in turn, how suburban life intensified Catholics assimilation, transformed their practice of the faith and their role in the Church's institutions, and reshaped their political priorities and allegiances. More than that, Crabgrass Catholicism puts American Catholics at the center of the most significant political developments of the late twentieth century. Recent scholarship on the politics of the suburbs has focused almost exclusively on evangelical Protestants and the rise of the right in the Sunbelt South. 26 Meanwhile, recent scholarship on Catholics and postwar politics has stressed how racial backlash and opposition to abortion drove Catholic voters toward an alliance with conservatives:" But his studyshovs how, from at least the 1950s, the economic pressures of suburbanization led bishops to redouble their quest for state funds for parochial schools, and led. lay Catholics to demand relief from …

2/9 Many factors led to a steep decline in church membership in the 1970s. The book’s central thesis is that suburbanization is never mentioned, but chief among them.

Urban parishes were a central part of the community- a neighborhood gathering place and social infrastructure.

1/9 Fascinating book on a little-studied slice of sociology: the intersection of politics, race, suburbanization, & America’s largest church.

This is probably particularly interesting for Catholics but some good food for thought for anyone hoping to understand how the US has changed. 📚💙

Yes I noted that above. I just mentioned you as I wanted to cite my sources. Thanks!

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6/ We will now have to reopen the debate on which is the best. I'm a classic Colin Firth girl myself, but several friends in my book club are ardent Matthew Macfadyen fans and I do see where they are coming from.

Final Cast Announced for Dolly Alderton’s Pride and Prejudice The six-part series adaptation has started production.

5/ But I suppose the reason that this book has such enduring appeal is that you can interpret it in many ways.

Yet another version has just been greenlighted and is filming.

www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

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4/6 Though fascinating that the original more heavily emphasizes Elizabeth's prejudice in judging a man based on rushed conclusions, whereas modern versions tend to highlight his prejudices as a rich man.