After having spent Thursday at a work "Health and Safety" training day, the next day I promptly went about opening up my left arm against some barbed wire, hitting my head on branches (twice) and then for good measure thwacking my head on the corner of a car boot door. Today I have mostly been recovering from the stomach bug that incapacitated me ( Read more... )

A half-interesting piece about pedestrians vs. motorists on Comment is Free, which concludes that "[w]e are left with an unhappy compromise in which pedestrians behave erratically, and sometimes dangerously, because street design favours motorists but those on foot are effectively outside the law." I think it comes down to the different costs of ( Read more... )

One of the long running issues in the cycling community is the issue of cycling helmets, and in particular whether they should be made compulsory (in the same way that wearing seat belts is for car drivers in the UK). Now a study suggests that wearing a helmet increases the chance of getting knocked down by other road vehicles. One can quibble ( Read more... )