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Slowing Down Cyclists in Central Park | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC There will be a 15 mile-per-hour speed limit for all vehicles on Central Park Drive, including bikes and e-bikes. How the city will it, plus an argument against the rule change.

Folks, if you ride a motorized vehicle in our city, your transport medium should be safe and regulated. If you expect to whizz around NY w a motor, unregulated, you’re out of your bloody mind.

Want to be unregulated? Lose the motor. Go for a walk. www.wnyc.org/story/slowin...

This reminds me. Stepdad had the compleat diaries of Harold, hardcover, and I think they‘re somewhere in the house. Must ask someone to put them aside for me, as I’m the only one in immediate fam who will truly appreciate.

Ooooh. Nice!

I don’t think “Madeleine” mentions this restaurant, but memories conveyed by WaPo remind me that the anonymous memoirist spent time in Butte before migrating to Canada. (Where she had pleasant encounters w/ outdoorsy men who were wholesome, polite, virile. But I digress. 💙📚)

In Butte, Montana, one restaurant has historic connections to sex work (licensed, for a while.) Some readers may recall a moment in the 1990s when SW activism was focused on the cultural history of Butte. The article evokes, as well, a 1919 memoir “Madeleine” (republished by Perseus in the 1980s).

Am reading an article via 🎁 links about 18-29 yo voters disappointed in the economy. The idea is people believing one individual can shape the economy. A strange notion! I cannot recall a time when I (or anyone) believed that.

YouTube video by CTV News Honouring Louis Riel’s legacy

Today is Louis Riel Day in Manitoba. A complex and singular, but statutory, holiday.

www.gov.mb.ca/chc/louis_ri...

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Thank you for focusing on that. A gazelle in a drawing room.

@nortonlibrary.bsky.social Happy holiday Monday. Are there any plans to revive the provision of transcripts?

How can we ignore abortion when talking about rent and groceries? For millions of people, these are entangled w reproductive issues.

The Perfect Time to Read The Scarlet Letter (The Scarlet Letter, Part 1) - The Norton Library Podcast In Part 1 of our discussion on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, we welcome editor Justine Murison to discuss Hawthorne's life and views, the iconic symbolism in the text and how to analyze it...

“So few students are reading it in high school now” Hmmmm. www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis...

LOL. I suppose!

Bearing in mind that antivaxers have also been left leaning and hippyish. Strange to see one’s antivax friends morph from lefty bohemian to…. far right!

I’m referring to the “personality” piece currently making the rounds in gift links. #cult

Is there a RW home schooling movement in the UK? I can see how measles would inspire that cause.

fantastic. I noted your comment and replied.

Sigh. I’ve a sibling in the UK who is not antivax but has been slightly influenced. He told me antivaxers just have a different idea about risk. I said no this is not about being “different,“ this is fascist propaganda that will endanger the populace.

Wait, what? North London???

In fact, the most interesting thing about that NYT piece is a detail about Turkmenistan. For that reason you should read it. I learned something new, and I am now rather curious to know more about this bit of Central Asia (and former USSR)

I think kids from “ethnic“ families like mine aren’t as phobic. We grow up eating real food. The author is describing a particular kind of household, perhaps the expression “white bread” comes to mind. Kids in my family are not fussy eaters.

I found it on JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable/2709059?

I am delighted by that. Perhaps I'll have a chance to read some of the work your spouse has published. I have a small collection of Colette items, mainly books, and have been interested in Colette since age 14 when I first read The Innocent Libertine.

Speaking of Colette Sexy, which let's dub an adjective on its own, I stumbled this very day upon a book that foregrounds Bertrand de Jouvenel as a player in the history of European ideas. A good example of Colette Sexiness imbuing all she knew.

Anyway, I'm wondering if you knew him. One thing I appreciate about his piece: in 1972 there's not a lot of au courant jargon. So I'm able to focus on the ideas. Which is nice, since it appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas. Piece is remarkable in its relevance just now.

I'm reading a piece about Anatole France by Dennis Porter pub'd in 1972 shortly after Porter arrives at Amherst. His comments confirm my inexplicable intuition, so he must be right :-) I am sad to learn that the author died in 2022. I'd like to thank him for this essay and rope him into this!

Coffee with a Codex: New Testament in Middle English An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

Nice. "On February 19, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 201, a copy of the New Testament translated into Middle English by John Wycliffe. It was made in England in the late 14th or early 15th century" Cw/aCodex is On Here, if you look around... libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/16179859

BBC World Service - The Strand, 28/12/2009 Aminatta Forna examines what happened to the so called 'Renaissance Generation'.

A conversation with Zohran’s father. Worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...?

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