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The 60-year-old man lying on the street, as far as anyone knew, was just a janitor hit by a drunk driver.
There was no mention of it on the local news, no obituary in the morning paper.
His name might have been Anonymous. But it wasn’t. 
His name was Peter Putnam.
He was a physicist who’d hung out with Albert Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, and Niels Bohr,
and two blocks from the crash, in his run-down apartment, where his partner, Claude, was startled by a scr…

Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

Waymo applied for a NYC permit to test its cars with safety drivers and plans to start collecting mapping data with manually driven cars in Manhattan in July (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/689093/waymo-nyc-permit…

Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City
Waymo applied for a permit to test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers in New York City. And it hopes it can change the state law to allow it to operate fully driverless.

Clearly at least the vandals (aka drivers) knew about it.
'Public should have been told about North Yorkshire speed camera'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg57gle8l1o
> The fixed camera on the A64, near Malton, was vandalised hours before it was due to be…

From Translink
Frontline transit workers wearing language pins to better support newcomers and tourists
New initiative makes it easier for customers to communicate with staff
More than 150 frontline transit workers across the TransLink system are now wearing pins that say “hello” in various languages – to let customers know which languages they speak in addition to English.
#Vancouver

Packers All-Quarter Century Team: Aaron Rodgers, Charles Woodson, Donald Driver, Clay Matthews power Green Bay

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

Weakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.

Alexandria asks VDOT to delay adding express lanes to Woodrow Wilson Bridge | ALXnow
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins and city staff are asking that the Virginia Department of Transportation delay approval of a preferred alternative on a plan to add express lanes from the Springfield Interchange across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. In an April letter to VDOT, Gaskins wrote that the project will bring "Alexandria "substantial consequences to our

Forty years ago I moved to Scotland and tried to read the classic “A Scots Quair” by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It’s written in a variant of Scots that aimed to be accessible to English readers. I had the Scots dictionary by my side and was looking up words constantly until I gave up. A few years later (with some more experience of hearing Scots spoken) I read it without the dictionary and, while I was occasionally guessing at words from context, I went with the flow and loved it.
Like mos…

Amazon ends an experiment started in 2023 to make same-day deliveries with drivers in Kia Souls and will rely on Amazon Flex drivers who use their own cars (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20