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'Active travel' study identifies pathways for designing walking- and cycling-friendly cities #city

'Active travel' study identifies pathways for designing walking- and cycling-friendly cities
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the transformative potential of walking- and cycling-friendly policies in cities around the world. Conducted by researchers from UCLA and Google, the study analyzed travel data from more than 11,500 cities across 121 countries, making it the most comprehensive global assessment to date of active transportation, or the potential for walking or biking.

"ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units known as Special Response Teams to five Democratic-run cities."
Somewhere in my head alarm bells are ringing and I can't find the "off" button.
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CDC purges career officials from oversight of vaccine committee (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-purges-career-officials-vaccine-recommendations-process/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p171#a250611p171

DOGE Cuts: House approves Trump's request to cut funding for NPR, PBS and foreign aid - ABC7 New York
https://abc7ny.com/post/doge-cuts-house-approves-trumps-request-cut-funding-npr-pbs-foreign-aid/16734522/

How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…

AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon
At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

Reed-Muller Codes for Quantum Pauli and Multiple Access Channels
Dina Abdelhadi, Colin Sandon, Emmanuel Abbe, Ruediger Urbanke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08651

Reed-Muller Codes for Quantum Pauli and Multiple Access Channels
Reed-Muller (RM) codes have undergone significant analytical advancements over the past decade, particularly for binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels. We extend the scope of RM codes development and analysis to multiple-access channels (MACs) and quantum Pauli channels, leveraging a unified approach. Specifically, we first derive the achievable rate region for RM codes on so-called Q-MACs, a class of MACs with additive correlated noise. This is achieved via a generalization of the bending…

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates
Josias Old, Stephan Tasler, Michael J. Hartmann, Markus M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09029

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates
Quantum error correction (QEC) is considered a deciding component in enabling practical quantum computing. Stabilizer codes, and in particular topological surface codes, are promising candidates for implementing QEC by redundantly encoding quantum information. While it is widely believed that a strictly fault-tolerant protocol can only be implemented using single- and two-qubit gates, several quantum computing platforms, based on trapped ions, neutral atoms and also superconducting qubits suppo…

Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-acip-vaccine-committee-9f58e1f004075b081718ff078de88d76
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p173#a250611p173

Planned PBS, NPR cuts would overwhelmingly hit outlets in states Trump won, report finds (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pbs-npr-cuts-states-won-by-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p70#a250612p70

GOP leaders say they are pressing forward with vote on DOGE cuts (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/12/congress/gop-leaders-say-they-are-pressing-forward-with-vote-on-doge-cuts-00403197
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p110#a250612p110