In the Netherlands, bicycle use is fervently promoted to local residents. This is done through <ol><li>visable bicycle infastrucutre e.g seperated bicycle lanes, which are the safest and most convenient</li><li>invisable bicycle infastructure e.g designing the city roads to channel different modes of transport via different routes.  </li></ol>

Hoofdnetten - Invisible Bicycle Structure 

<ul><li>semi-permeable roads : roads that allow cyclists/pedestriens through but not cars/buses</li><li>tram routes which are not accessible for cars</li><li>car routes with only seperated bicycle lanes</li></ul>

examples of invisible bicycle infrastructure 

artsandculture

Society, Arts & Culture

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The Netherlands has some of the best bicycle infrastructure in the world, but some of it is completely invisible ... until you learn about ontvlechten. Dutch cities take care to separate or "disentangle" routes taken by drivers from those taken by everyone else, making their streets safer, quieter, and more efficient. These routes are determined by hoofdnetten (and plusnetten), where each form of traffic gets its own routes through the city.

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Satelite Map Images from Google Earth Studio
https://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines/attr-guide/

Orlando Suburb "Cursed Culdesacs"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Suburbanhell/comments/hsvyiu/cursed_culdesacs/

‘s-Hertogenbosch wil auto en fiets ontvlechten
https://fietsberaad.nl/CROWFietsberaad/media/Kennis/Bestanden/Fietsverkeer%2017-%20Hertogenbosch.pdf?ext=.pdf

Plusnetten en hoofdnetten infrastructuur
Gemeente Amsterdam
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/plushoofdnetten/

Mobiliteits Aanpak Amsterdam 2030
https://assets.amsterdam.nl/publish/pages/865232/mobiliteitsaanpak_amsterdam_2030.pdf

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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B00000017791 Straatbeeld, detailhandel en mensen in verkeer (1977)
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/1f661f8c-da05-01b2-c13d-2ecf6ef26020

B00000018594 Eerste van der Helststraat (1978)
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/0aad26fc-e9bf-e57e-55a5-602f535594d3

London Quietways Plan (2017)
Transport for London (Archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170611030650/https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-projects/quietways

0:00 Intro
0:05 Bicycle infrastructure
0:44 Ontvlechten
0:57 Busy roads and suburban mazes
1:55 The Dutch approach: hoofdnetten and plusnetten
3:27 Hoofdnet examples
4:04 Filtered permeability
5:01 Hoofdnet routes for cars & bicycles
5:17 Safe and efficient road networks
6:29 Summary and conclusion
7:00 Patreon shout-out
7:12 Outro

Stories of great urban planning and urban experiences from the Netherlands and beyond. There are a lot of reasons why Dutch cities are so great; it's not just bikes.

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Not Just Bikes

The Bike Lanes You Can't See - Ontvlechten

Invisible Bicycle Infrastructure of the Netherlands (Hoofdnetten)

In the Netherlands, The most common type of bicycle are opafiets. Meaning you sit perpendicular to the road. This is because they are primarily used for easy, quick transportation as opposed to sport or recreation as in the UK/US.It is an inefficient position that does not transmit maximum power into the crank shaft. Instead it is comfortable.

The "Upright" Bicycle

<ul><li>Upright position = better visability and sight lines = safer in traffic</li><li>position allows for any clothing to be worn e.g clothing guard/chain guard</li><li>step through frame = easy mounting/dismounting </li><li>chain-guard protects chains from weathering</li><li>frame lock/chain lock are in-built = convienent safe storage </li><li>front/rear fender = protects from rain</li><li>rear/front rack = useful for transporting goods/other people</li><li>heavy duty materials = not for speed but to last/low maintence </li><li>inhub gears = low maintence </li><li>coaster breaks vs hand breaks = low maintence/cable-free </li></ul>

Benefits of an Opafiet for Commuting

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The Dutch-style bicycle, an upright bicycle designed for comfort - not sport - is commonplace in the Netherlands. But they're incredibly rare in many other countries.

This video explores why these bicycles are so useful, practical, and comfortable.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:05 Omafiets & Practical Bicycles
0:49 Other bicycles in the Netherlands
1:10 Upright riding
2:20 Step-through frames
3:07 Coat guard and chain guard
3:34 Frame locks
5:07 Fenders, kickstands, & racks
6:05 In-hub gearing
6:28 Coaster brakes
7:12 Tires & tubes
7:39 Dynamos & bells
8:08 Upright bikes in Canada
9:14 Summary & Conclusion
10:03 Patreon shout-out
10:15 Outro

Why Dutch Bikes are Better (and why you should want one)

There's twice more carbon in soil than there is in vegetation and air - hence a very small change in the amount of carbon stored in soil can make a big difference in maintenance of the Earth's atmosphere. The main problem is most of our agriculture is designed in a way to extract that carbon. (via deforestation, itensive crop harvesting etc) Luckily, one of the best ways to get soil working to stop climate change is to plant trees, reforestation

Morat Asawa Burke – Soil researcher 

Yvonne Acky Sawyer is the mayor of Freetown, which is in Sierra Leone. Freetown has been suffering some of the extreme weather due to climate change. She ran for mayor with the goal to increase vegetation cover by 50 percent in Freetown by the end of her term in 2020.This is not just to help fight to help fight climate change -- these trees are about improving the lives of residents of Freetown.  But trees don't in the time frame we need solve the problem of climate change.

Yvonne Acky Sawyer - Mayor

Concrete is made with limestone (fossil carbon), which requires the burning of fossil fuels to get to super high temperatures that allow you to break down the limestone and turn it into concrete.Yet concrete is an intrinsically low impact material with much lower emissions of CO2 and energy per ton than other materials like iron/steel/bricks. It is the second most used substance on earth and so contributes to about eight percent of manmade CO2 emissions.

Karen Schreiber - Chemist 

Luckily, chemists are inventing a new way of making cement that cuts down on the release of that CO2. L.C 3 uses Calcine clay: it is heated to around 800 degrees Celsius, (significantly lower than the 4050 needed to produce cement.) and there are no CO2 emissions from the decomposition of limestone. It can be produced with the same equipment and processes and used in the same way, but has up to 40 percent lower CO2 emissions. It acts as a direct replacement with all the same properties and yet saves more than a third of the CO2 pollution.

Tom uses the idea that they could cure the concrete with pure CO2 itself, trapping it inside. This could transform the third largest emitter as a country in the world to a net sink.

Tom Schuler -mechanical engineer/professor/CEO of a cement startup 

Despite already promoting biking, public transit, walking, there is a problem with air pollution because of road transportation. But Amsterdam has a plan to go emissions free by 2030.

Monica Orea - transportation expert 

To make this work, we need this kind of pincer movement. <ol><li>bottom-up pressure = people making these changes on their own (bike more /transitioning from an internal combustion engine car to an electric car) </li><li>topmost level/national level = mandates that lock in some of this progress, (certain number of electric vehicles for the government's own vehicle fleet/emission standards for all the vehicles that are out there)</li></ol>

Luckily the technologies we need for this transformation are here today commercially available, getting cheaper and getting better.E.G the huge bus fleets in China are being switched over to electric : single biggest thing that has been done in the transportation sector for climate change emissions.

But electric cars aren’t fool proof, sometimes what has happened is that tailpipe has moved many miles away.We hope that the electric comes from to a solar farm but in most cases it comes from a coal fired power plant. In order for electric car to be sustainable, we must have green power.

Cooling systems today collectively account for 17 percent of the electricity we use worldwide – because of climate change, we need even more energy to cool ourselves, our homes, our data centres, everything. We are trapped in this vicious cycle of where global warming makes the world hotter. That drives demand for cooling, which then drives emissions, which then make the world hotter and so on and so forth.

This is where the concept of sky cooling comes in. It was inspired by ancient Persians: They would spread water out in the desert, in the hot desert, in a thin layer, and overnight it would form ice. And then that ice could be stored in cooling warehouses.

Aswath Román - electrical engineer 

That ice formed, even though the temperature never dropped to freezing.This is because of a window in our atmosphere: Certain wavelengths of heat pass right through our atmosphere and back out into space. So even though the outside air is not below freezing, heat from the water escapes into space and the water cools and it freezes

Aswath created a multilayer optical material, more than 40 times thinner than a typical human hair, and able to do two things simultaneously. <ol><li>First, it sends it heat out precisely where our atmosphere lets that heat out the best, targetting in the window to space.</li><li> Second thing it does is it avoids getting heated up by the sun. It's a very good mirror to sunlight</li></ol>

Californians use more electricity playing video games than the entire country of Senegal uses overall – this is an example of the global energy inequality.

<ul><li>Billions of people in LEDCs simply lack enough energy to build a better life. (ie to run their businesses without daily blackouts/preserve their crops from rotting/power lifesaving medical equipment) Unreliable, expensive energy prevents them from growing and prospering with dignity and opportunity</li></ul>

Rose Muto - clean energy researcher 

Yet US and China have been burning through the carbon budget with no restrictions, allowing them to develop to where we are today. Africa has not benefited from that. And so, any remaining carbon budget should be allocated to them so that they can enjoy kind of similar lifestyles to those enjoyed by those of us in the United States and China.

Sadly, the world is looking at Africa in a completely contradictory way.<ul><li>When one side wants them to grow, to emerge from abject poverty, to build a middle class and become the next global market</li><li>But, anxious to demonstrate action on climate change, rich countries in the West are increasingly restricting their funding to only renewable energy sources, effectively telling Africa and other poor nations to either develop with no carbon or to limit their development ambitions altogether.</li></ul>

Africa must be prioritized when it comes to what's left in the carbon budget.For three main reasons:<ol><li>First Africa isn't the culprit of climate change. It's a victim, facing the worst impacts of extreme weather, drought and heat. Yet forty-eight African countries combined are responsible for less than one percent of a cumulative carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.</li><li>Second, Africa needs more energy to fight climate change because of its climate vulnerability. Africa's climate fight is about adaptation and resilience, and climate adaptation is energy intensive. To respond to extreme weather, Africans will need more resilient infrastructure (to cope with drought/pumped irrigation for agriculture/ desalination for fresh wate/cold storage and AC)</li><li>Third, preventing African development in the name of the climate creates a two-tier global energy system with "energy abundance for the rich and tiny solar lamps for Africans."</li></ol>

Fighting climate change is a big, messy task that will take a lot of work. This hour, TED's Science Curator David Biello joins Manoush to share some promising and fascinating solutions. 

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Science & Nature

Building Our Zero-Emissions Future  : TED Radio Hour

Lucy Cooke is a zoologist and founder of Slothville. Lucy noted that sloths are evolutionary extraordinary in many ways: they are one of the only inverted quadrupeds, they poop only once a week, they are vegetarians which can digest a variety of plants and they have ridged furs which trap algae to help them camouflage. Their evolutionary advantage comes with their lack of speed = they are rarely noticed by predators which spot prey due to their movement.

Lucy Cooke - zoologist part 1

She also noted that when sloths poop, they travel down from the tree trunks to defecate on the ground – a huge risk. This, she believes is to leave scent trails for other sloths, helping them find and climb the right tree of a female who screams out in D# when in heat.More than that, they have become entrenched in a culture which values a slower way of life.

Lucy Cooke - zoologist part 2

Walker wrote the book “Why We Sleep” and is an advocate for at least 8 hours each night. He explains how a mixture of REM sleep and deep sleep can help humans consolidate learning and store memories. The ratio between these two modes of sleep is extremely important yet cannot be controlled.

Matthew Walker – neuroscientist   part 1

He conducted an experiment with two groups: 8-hour-sleepers vs all-nighters. He then studied the individuals brain patterns in an MRI scan as they tried to memorize and recall facts. The 8-hour-sleepers showed healthy, active brain patterns associated with learning whereas the all-nighters showed virtually no such signs.

Matthew Walker – neuroscientist   part 2

Walker concludes that sleep is vital to help heal emotional trauma by reflection in deep sleep and convert knowledge into wisdom through the associations formed between the emotional, memorial and abstract in REM sleep.

Matthew Walker – neuroscientist   part 3

Julia Watson is an architect studying indigenous low-tech designs. She observed how the Kashi people overcame the problems presented with living in a region of monsoons and high average rainfall. The torrential flash-floods and rivers would often destroy any infrastructure so the people planted native trees/shrubbery which grew over 50 years and was woven into bridges. This long-term, low tech solution proved far more resilient than any design which fought against nature.

Julia Watson - architect part 1

She also observed the Uros people living on Lake Titicaca on floating islands made of the cattail reed. They wove houses from this plant in under 3 days without the need for other resources. The resilience of these structures didn’t come from their physical strength but from their adaptability under the assumption they would decay and breakdown over time.

Julia Watson - architect part 2

Nagin Cox has worked on all 3 Mars rovers to date. She recounts that once they are on Mars, they must make use of their time and work efficiently. This requires the team of scientists and engineers to work with it, allowing it to gather information in the day and they recharge at night when the team receives the information, they must analyses it and then plan and creates instructions for the rover’s following day.

Nagin Cox – NASA engineer part 1

Since Mars has a slower rotation than Earth, one day (or Sol as it is known) is 40 minutes longer. This means the team must work with Martian time, syncing their watches to be slower by 40 minutes and separating themselves from their fellow earthlings. Cox noted the profound separation she felt from her friends when working on Mars time, her and her fellow colleagues referred to themselves as Martians as they began to function on another rhythm.

Nagin Cox – NASA engineer part 2

We live in an era of instant gratification. But some things — to reach their full potential — simply cannot be rushed. This hour, TED speakers explore what we can learn from ideas that take time.

personaldevelopment

Personal Development

It Takes Time

He wrote and illustrated a graphic novel about an alien left on planet Earth trying to find companionship in a time where he feels completely alone.
Johnny himself struggled with loneliness, comparing the feeling to a void. Like outer space, where no one answers. 
Similarly, the internet can feel like this, but as Johnny explained he used humour and online cartoon strips to articulate his feelings and soon he discovered that it formed a small community of other, lonely people who began to connet.
 He described loneliness as an “intrinsic human state” but that through social connection, one can alleviate these feelings of crushing despair.

Johnny Sun – Illustrator and writer  

Susan Pinker argued that social connection is one of the biggest defining factors for life expectancy/health.
 Diet and exercise are important, but there should be an equal if not greater focus on social interaction and connection as a key biological need expressed in a similar way to hunger. 
Hugs and high fives release a flood of hormones (serotonin etc.) that make people feel good, heard, supported. This is an integral part of human health and long-term deprivation can prove detrimental.

Susan Pinker – Physiologist part 1

However, close relationships (i.e someone you could ask for money, someone who could comfort you during a crisis etc.) are not always the most important.
 Weak relationships (I.e. the person who serves your coffee, the postman, a neighbour etc.) are just as important and build a feeling of security and community – humanity thrives on these feelings and have done for centuries. 
An overwhelming emphasis on individualism and self-reliance has built an isolating culture that prohibits healthy social interaction.

Susan Pinker – Physiologist part 2

Grace designed and build her own community living space with her family and eight others in Seattle as a rejection of suburban living that often promotes isolation and only offers a false promise of connection.
 The housing estate is designed to include communal areas (the courtyard) and spaces where people can see others (the balconies).

Grace Kim – Architect part 1

Her design promotes a feeling of togetherness and broadens the meaning of “family” and “home”.
 They share meals at least 4 times a week, although attendance varies daily and often birthdays/annual celebrations are a group effort.
 Adults and kids engage in altercations occasionally – this is simply a human condition but high levels of communication mean these times can be talked through and solutions adopted.

Grace Kim – Architect part 2

Suleika suffered from cancer and during treatment she was forced to stay completely isolated due to a compromised immunity. 
She recalls spending months in a single room and only ever seeing people when they were surgical gowns and masks. 
This was extremely difficult and she descried herself then as the “bubble girl”.

Suleika Jaouad – Writer  part 1

During this time her mother (an artist) launched challenge – 100 days of creativity. Her mother painted a small ceramic tile every day and Suleika took up journaling.
 After voicing her experiences through online blogs ect a few people contacted her, expressing their resonance. 
One of these people was an inmate on death row – completely isolated form the rest of the world for over half of his life.

Suleika Jaouad – Writer  part 2

After a period of stagnancy in her life, Suleika took a road trip (much like the creativity challenge) and met with this inmate.
 He asked her how she filled her time and when she admitted “by getting good at scrabble” he agreed.
 Him and his fellow inmates created paper versions of board games and played them in his spare time – Suleika marvelled at the “human spirit”.

Suleika Jaouad – Writer  part 3

Original broadcast date: April 24, 2020. We're a social species now living in isolation. But loneliness was a problem well before this era of social distancing. This hour, TED speakers explore how we can live and make peace with loneliness. Guests on the show include author and illustrator Jonny Sun, psychologist Susan Pinker, architect Grace Kim, and writer Suleika Jaouad. 

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Health

Listen Again: Meditations on Loneliness : TED Radio Hour

Richard is certain that afterthe global pandemic schools will never be the same.
Online learning has forced teachers to look at how they can get through to pupils and how they can reinvent the learning experience to engage children in a safe, social environment. 

He explains how upon finding a bug on his son’s windowsill, he transformed an everyday experience into a learning one by prompting the child to find out what species it is and use the internet to learn more.

Richard Culatta – Educator 

Liz discusses the importance of introducing “difficult” topics such as pandemics, racism etc into the classroom. She believes that the fundamentals needed to grasp these topics (equality vs fairness/difference, opinion and bis etc.) are already in a young child's spectrum of understanding. Therefore, they can enter discussions about racism etc early on and so it is easier to expand on this as they grow older.

Liz Kleinrock – Educator part 1

She recounted an awkward situation in which a student of colour proposed some people may be racist as they believe black people’s skin “looks like poop”.Liz recognised that this may have been an internalised belief for the young girl and is would be wrong to chastise her for discussing this topic, despite the fact what she said was offensive. She argues it is far worse to allow dangerous believes about race (e.g. I mustn’t talk about it) to be internalised and resurface in later life in a much worse way.

Liz Kleinrock – Educator  part 2

She also argues that this is not politicisation of the curriculum as what is taught at schools, what textbooks are used and how much teachers are paid is already government reliant. Children are already exposed to political discourse and so it should be approached in a much more honest and open way. This is why she recommends that teacher's self-access their own privilege, belief system and patterns of bias in order to constantly be learning themselves and delvier a higher quality of education to children.

Liz Kleinrock – Educator part 3

Thomas expresses his concern with the rise of perfectionism in modern day culture where individualism and social media combine to form the narrative “people expect others to be perfect, and the better they perform, the more that is expected of them” This is also due to the importance placed on SATs and generalised exams.

Thomas Curran – Psychologist  part 1  

Being held back a grade in middle school will hugely impact the future career of a person and so this pressure can mean many students are put at risk of developing depression/anxiety/EDs as a result of high stress levels.&nbsp;This culture is devastating is unaddressed and over-parenting a child can make it worse, if their successes and failures are taken on by the parents, they may put too high a value on results and be afraid of failure.

Thomas Curran – Psychologist  part 2

For parents and teachers, Thomas emphasises the importance of taking the focus away from results and focussing instead on the learning process. What did they gain, how did they feel about it, what did they enjoy instead of comparing their progress with the progress of others. This will create a much healthier learning environment and perpetuate self-compassion for students.&nbsp;How would they treat a friend if they came home with that result – how can they rationalise and revaluate what a bad grade really means in the grand scheme of their lives?

Thomas Curran – Psychologist part 3 

Jaqueline retells how she is a slow reader and how this clashed with the academic interests of her teachers at school who wanted her to read faster.&nbsp;Because accessing literary skills is usually based on speed when it comes to books, many children can feel pressured to read more quickly than they want to.&nbsp;However she explains that some may find it more enjoyable to savour a story. To completely immerse themselves in the narrative and absorb themselves in the world that has been created.

Jaqueline Woodson – writer  part 1

She argues that this stems from her African American history, when so many black Americans where prohibited from learning to read or write.&nbsp;This illiterate nation of people therefore had to retell their stories in a different way, through songs and through art.

Jaqueline Woodson – writer  part 2

When more and more people began to learn even under the threat of death, literature became so important to African Americans and Jaqueline herself (growing up in the 70s) realised that stories which represented people like her needed to be written.&nbsp;There was a gap in the scene, where young black children were not being told they mattered and she felt that she needed to take the time to tell these stories and to truly appreciate the legacy behind them.

Jaqueline Woodson – writer  part 3

More than test scores or good grades — what do kids need to prepare them for the future? This hour, guest host Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers explore how to help children grow into better humans.

Teaching For Better Humans

<ol><li>adaptable</li><li>decentralised</li><li>symbiotic</li></ol>

Cryptocurrency/Fungi

Just as fungi and plants formed a symbiotic relationship to successfully colonize dry land, humans can form symbiosis with Bitcoin to improve individually and to advance our species. In this article…

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Cryptocurrency

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Technology & The Future

Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution (Symbiosis) — Part 4/4

Information is the most valuable aspect in adventure. The advantage is given to those who are in the know. Perhaps the greatest benefit for the "good guys" is their typical inclusivity : by relying on a diverse, rag-tag team they maximise the scope of their knowledge and understaning i.e information.Pullan's depiction of adventure is wonderful. Adventure is a collaberation of individuals in it for their own cause, pooling information and independantly problem solving along the way. Information is the ammo and fuel for the warfare of adventure.

Information

Lyra's character developement is beautiful, and Pan's form is not overused to show this. It would be easy to have Pan grow in size or grandure, adopting more and more impressive animals but Pullan avoids this well. He opts for a subtler change in character, developing Lyra's ability to see the bigger picture and conceptualise societies different from her own

opinion

Pullman completely obscures morality, with constant changes to the readers understanding of good and bad characters. This is not only exciting and engaging, but starkly real aspect to an otherwise fantastical tale.

Intrigue 

All interactions revolve around intoxication - smokeweed, Tokay, coffee. Upon meeting a stranger, both parties particpate mutually in adopting altered perceptions. Perhaps this highlights that an individuals usual perspective is not the only one and therefore emphasises the validity of others. Drinking, smoking etc is a way of meeting in a neutral state of otherness, not quite your usual self and therefore more open to recieving the other.

Intoxication

Living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College, Lyra hears rumors of a magical dust that supposedly possesses powers that can unite whole universes, and begins a difficult and dangerous journey to find it. Reissue. Teacher's Guide available.

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Books

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA! The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other... A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. A #1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction Published in 40 Countries "Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years." —The Washington Post "Very grand indeed." —The New York Times "Pullman is quite possibly a genius." —Newsweek  Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials! ** THE BOOK OF DUST ** La Belle Sauvage The Secret Commonwealth

Invisible Bicycle Infrastructure of the Netherlands (Hoofdnetten)

Why Dutch Bikes are Better (and why you should want one)

Building Our Zero-Emissions Future : TED Radio Hour

It Takes Time

Listen Again: Meditations on Loneliness : TED Radio Hour

Lee Harrison