{"id":783,"date":"2023-06-03T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2023-11-18T03:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T11:23:43","slug":"happy-world-bicycle-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/happy-world-bicycle-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy World Bicycle Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/bicycle-day\">World Bicycle Day<\/a>! [1]<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally (i.e., before I learned this fact), this morning I happened to rediscover the presentation I put together to kick off the discussion at a virtual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digital-science.com\/resource\/scifoo\/\">SciFoo<\/a> session that I proposed and MCed back in 2021, entitled, \u201cCreating the (next) bike revolution: biking as a powerful tool for improving health, climate, society . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, in honor of World Bicycle Day [1], I will reiterate here the three claims I made there &#8212; which were then supported rather than refuted over the course of said session, and which I still stand by today:<\/p>\n<p>Claim 1: Bicycles are the ideal choice for trips of a couple miles<br \/>Claim 2: More biking is better for us, both individually and collectively<br \/>Claim 3: Bike infrastructure is a powerful tool for social\/societal good<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/biking-revolution_title.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/biking-revolution_title.png\" alt=\"title slide with three claims, plus photos of a fold-up bike, bike-based mail delivery, and a bunch little bikes parked at a preschool\" width=\"1291\" height=\"729\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And in case you would like to see the whole presentation, here it is in its entirety (with a healthy number of graphs and references, of course): <a href=\"http:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/biking-revolution_websiteversion.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or if you want to skip to the end, here are the things I proposed as collective &#8220;action items&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/biking-revolution_actionitems.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-782\" src=\"http:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/biking-revolution_actionitems.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1302\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, I encourage you to consider biking for any short trips you need to make today . . . Or if you cannot do that (e.g., due to not having access to a suitable bicycle or due to your local public infrastructure being bike-hostile), I encourage you to take some steps toward changing things, so as to be able to go for a bike ride next June 3rd!<\/p>\n<p>[1] Cautionary note: Beware of mix-ups with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide#%22Bicycle_Day%22\">the other &#8220;Bicycle Day&#8221; that is celebrated on April 19th<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently today is World Bicycle Day! [1] Coincidentally (i.e., before I learned this fact), this morning I happened to rediscover the presentation I put together to kick off the discussion at a virtual SciFoo session that I proposed and MCed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/happy-world-bicycle-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eveofdiscovery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}