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Greetings from The Tarka Trail 🦦👋 😁 imagine if everyone who appreciates this content moved to the same town, the momentum of change would be awesome...

The University system in the US is a total scam, except for the privileged students that get scholarships to go to top universities. The fact that a ¨Catholic University in the Midwest" costs 50k per year is absolutely ridiculous, absurd, an insult, even more when you have excellent universities in the European Union which are of great quality and essentially free. This is specially wrong since many of these universities would not even qualify as universities in the European Union because they lack quality, structure, and the appropriate controls. As I said, a total scam.

As a former actor and lover of shakespeare, i agree! For me, figuring out the language and the technical aspects feels like a puzzle to solve. Once i figure out what its saying and how to say it, i get to share the 'answer' with the audience by bringing my acting into it! I love how you said this so succinctly.

Another fun thing about getting paid by the credit hour in STEM is that labs are worth fewer hours than lectures despite being the same amount of contact time (if not more) and LOTS more prep and clean-up and grading if you don't have enough lab techs. While a lecture that meets 3 times a week is worth 3 credit hours, each 3-hour lab was only worth 1 credit hour at the community college I taught at and 2 hours at the university I taught at, who were trying to be generous. At least where I worked paid better than what you're mentioning here, at $1000/credit hour/semester, with a max of 3 classes as a part-time adjunct. Once I became a full-time adjunct (which is a whole other concept to talk about), I could teach 5 or an overload of 6 to make extra money. Summer they still usually only let me teach 2 lectures, so I worked another part-time job on top of that to try to make ends meet. (Add into it that we were on 9 month-contracts and summer was only 2 months, so regardless there was a month with no paycheck every year, and after taxes and living expenses/rent/loan repayments, typically not enough to put aside to cover it completely without the extra job.) So grateful I finally got a true lecturer position after more than a decade adjuncting. Financial stability (even if it's not what it arguably should be with a post-grad degree) makes a world of difference in the quality and attention I can give to my classes now.

why isn't this video 1/4 of its run length. this video is four cities-worth

Norway's switch from electric vehicles to public transportation is important lesson for Americans. It amazes me how little Americans understand the scale of damage cars do. This includes land use

One other thing: Oxford is quite dense - at least from an American point of view. There are loads of cities much bigger by population that are low density. Think of Phoenix, Dallas, Las Vegas, Houston, Oklahoma City. Even where I live, in Buffalo, NY, it's sort of dense but kind of sprawled, we have a population density of 6,800/sq/mi and we have about 270,000 people. American cities at the population of Oxford - about 152,000 - sprawl out a lot often. The high population density and compact build of Oxford should be a reason to limit cars in the first place

I've both run the business and IT segment of a community college, and been adjunct at a uni, and yeah.. it all sucks.. For our adjunct work we got paid per-hour, and they'd even re-write the contracts you'd already agreed to, after the 'census date' to only pay you for as many papers as you where marking and no more (they'd subtract anyone who pulled out, even if you'd marked some of their assignments). And of course, you'd get paid for far less time than it actually took to mark assignments, then if any students appealed, all the paperwork, re-marking, etc, which could be hours. would be unpaid. At the community college I had 18 hours of management time each week to be developing the curriculum, linking to the national standards, organising and chasing trainers, responding to students... but up to 10 hours of that could be 'offset' by teaching, so If I taught 20 hours of content in a week, I'd only have 8 instead of 18 hours of admin time, then I'd be paid for the first 10 hours of teaching at the admin, rather than the teaching rate (teaching rate had the extra time you need for prep and marking factored in to the hourly rate).... I loved working in education, but they're probably the most 'late-stage-capitalism' jobs I've had :(

I do have a strong resentment to Taylor Swift tho. But I think it comes solely from the fact that it reminds me of neoliberalism. It's technically well produced, but soulless. It's like marvel, or other blockbuster films. It's like triple A games. I have the broadest taste in music, DJed for 10 years, produced for 5. There must be a reason I have such an adverse reaction to a fucking pop artist. But I think it reminds me of capitalism... I don't like capitalism.

If 15 min cities are so good, why are they compulsory?

what you are missing out on is that driving is as fun as a heroine enema. just like a heroine enema driving is very addictive. you are interfering with them getting their next hit right up the bum bum. though a 15 minute city does not prevent you from getting to where you want to go, it does interfere with how you arrive.

There are ways to stop your self from constantly saying "like". Gets anoying real quick.

Whose house will be torn down to put in these services, yours? They can’t keep the power on now, more power use from everything you use? Doesn’t make sense at all.

Super interesting conversation, even for someone who's only familiar with Shakespeare on a surface level. You've piqued my curiosity! :) Also, kudos for giving your interviewee room to speak and finish her thoughts. 🌟

Casually sipping from a Nachos Bikes mug.

I'm loving this kind of utopian politics. I find it much more helpful when thinking about how to live my life

How about if we move all of our politicians into a 2 mile square area and told them they needed permission to go beyond it.

I hope you know that you do say "like"... A LOT! :)

No mention of changing diets when this is worth 15%+ of emissions due to animal ag. Plus hundreds of GT of opportunity by reforestation and rewilding on the land that gets freed up by reducing animal ag.

On reforestation, Tom is drastically undershooting the potential for this. Studies show that reforestation of all the land area that would be freed up by ending animal ag (3 billion hectares) is about 15-26GT per year. For 30 years. A recent study analysed the change in albedo of putting trees in some areas and it's actually worse than the benefit of sucking down carbon to grow the tree, but even with that land out of the picture, you're still looking at about 10GT per year. Half that again because people will take a while to cut the animal products in their diets. 5GT per year. For 25 years until 2050. Thats conservatively 125GT.

52:55 Bus route being like "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way"

Open air prisons 🖕

I think the equivalent of the Stroad in the UK are the main highstreets which are also a thoroughfare with cars going down it at 32mph. Especially because they have parked cars along the sides the people are all crammed in.

Found this one dull tbh.

I started watching not just bikes 2 years ago, fell in love with urban planning, and now I’m in Europe 🥲

Where did Tom Nicholas move from to go to Plymouth?

Private car ownership is to be banned by 2035 according to the UN sdg's and the WEF website. How is it a conspiracy theory? The plan to lock us down is the published. Every country is designing 15 minute cities. Flat earth and hollow moon are conspiracy theories, 15 minute cities are being built.

Nice thing about orange: it's the Dutch national color (because of the royal family "Van Oranje", "Of Orange"). While living in Israel, great country, I remember thinking: it needs more Dutch infrastructure. And now I think that everywhere 😊

Being Dutch, the cool thing about our infrastructure is having DIFFERENT OPTIONS. I can walk to the nearest supermarket, cycle or drive to my job, other shops. City center is best reached by bike of on foot (paid parking if I pick up bigger items). Now that my bicycle broke down, I really miss that option. It's so easy to get anywhere when you can choose. I have a car now, but before that, I rarely needed it (could borrow parents's car when necessary). When I have the time, I like to just walk it. No problem here. I wish the same for all societies.

What’s up with that glass clinking? Lol interesting episode, but the glass clinking every time Tom began to talk was very distracting for me.

I am a conservative U.S.A. and I hate cars on city streets all I want to do is to cycle or walk to places without being killed by a stupid car most every city is too spread out a 5 mile radius is not far but at least 3 miles of it is parking lots

14:52 this is basically the plot of a very interesting Norwegian TV series

Yeah, no thanks to 15 minutes cities.

Having watched both of you guys independently, its awesome to see you doing a joint show! Great content.

I do believe that there's an over use of traffic lights, and not enough use of road markings and signage, not just lines and info on the roads, but filled in, COLOURFUL markings that draw the eye, road/lane widths that help control speed through psychology and sociology... Traffic lights have a purpose, sure, but people often end up just trusting the signal lights, and not paying attention to the road and other road users. Pedestrians will often still cross after the lights have changed, they do have the right of way here, and if overly reliant on the lights... Another is the lack of mirrors on many junctions that plainly need them, they often have to be petitioned for, and are not a natural tool of planners, automatically being used when the situation requires, but waiting till after multiple incidents have proven their neccessity.

This youtuber cannot take comments that disagree with their own agenda and either deletes comments or hides them from the channel. (shadow bans)

"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian." ~ Emma Goldman

Its funny how there's so few photos of Jason that you had to use the one from the tom scott podcast, and if I hadn't seen that one clip I would have no idea who that's supposed to be, it interesting how notjustbikes is a channel that's really big right now, and he doesn't hide his face but no one know what he looks like, it's kind of a best of both worlds

Now i hate living in Tennessee

Leaderless movements don’t actually work better than ones with leaders- power is not a construct you can remove from humanity

As a resident of south wales I would never take the train now. That “niceness” of the trains doesnt exist in most of uk routes where trains are overpriced, crowded and dirty. The stress of not knowing if your train journey will have some sort of issue ruins any benefit it would have over a car.

Funny fact; the warmest year on record coincides with the highest level of co2 recorded. Correlation perhaps?

There's also been a small rise of cockney accented channels with critical thought and reason that advocates for the material conditions of regular people.

I got obsessed with urban development and how polities change through time thanks to sim city 2k to 4 and later city builders when I realized slow deliberate planning worked a lot better than slapping out a bunch of development. My philosophy was a city should be grown like a bonsai tree. Then I started to learn some more history and had to reconcile some ideology with how the real world works. The real competing factors that go into urban planning. This is why 'city planner plays cities skylines' is one of the best. He drops some details that crop up in planning an existing city. Always felt weird I was so into this stuff. The rise of these channels makes me feel vindicated in my weirdness.

There's a tiktoker by the name miniminute man who does a really good job debunking archaology misinformation on tiktok by condensing academia into quick soundbites that work on the platform. I don't know how convincing a believer of these theories would find it but it might stop some people from falling down this rabbit hole in the first place

Spraying titanium dioxide into the atmosphere... chemtrails you say....

Media an politician. Everyone with this media reach, visibility or call it however you want, has decided to drag us to climate catastrophe. How do we save the planet when our information, our discourse and the Overton window, are in the hands of few assholes?

Very interesting, and somehow funny too

Hvac mechanic and no way America would ever pay to replace ac units. And our electricity is mostly coal plants anyway. And since half the country doesn't believe in climate change because snow. Yeah we aren't going to be helping. Especially evs are 5% of vehicles sold because we don't want taxes going to ev infrastructure

good talk