An environmental group successfully blocked the last miles of a nearly complete 102 mile transmission line that would connect 160 renewable sites to the Midwest.

Brutal.

The real list of most walkable cities in the USA

Two red lines, each the same length. One represents a conventional commercial corridor that features strip malls and ample parking; the other is a historical downtown street (both in Portland, ME). The difference? One makes 4x as much in property taxes per foot of road.

One of my favorite parts of this road trip has been connecting with people from across our Commonwealth – and last night we got to meet with folks in Centre County.

Thank you to Gordon and Boal City Brewing for hosting us.

Tomorrow is the last day to register at the early bird price. Come and join us May 14-16th to learn the Principles of Sensory Evaluation. Dr. Helene Hopfer (she/her) Sensory@PennState

web.cvent.com/event/e769aada…

Former postdoc and current Assistant Professor Rutgers University Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN led a paper exploring effects of our optimal defaults grocery shopping intervention by household type. tinyurl.com/4jw4t7h8

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You can throw a rock at any urbanist/YIMBY event and hit someone who will say something like, 'I grew up a normie in suburbs and then I went on a class trip to NYC/took a vacation to Asia/Europe,' etc. They see the alternative and want it. Prices already reflect this.

Hourly wages have outgrown inflation if properly measured from pre-pandemic (Feb '20). Let media know they are misleading their audience when they publish cost data without wages. Purchasing power (real wages) up about 3.7% since 2019. Stuff is CHEAPER in real terms! 10/

You cannot achieve any of the green growth policy goals of the Biden administration without significant changes in electricity transmission — permitting, utility regulation, financing, the whole deal.

New paper by J Brodock, Dr. Travis Masterson, PhD, & Dr. Helene Hopfer (she/her) finds significant relationships between Teruel Orthorexia Scale sub scales and physical activity and BMI using secondary analysis of data from 900+ active adults in the US.
mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/8…

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What the ‘poop building’ tells us about affordable housing in Philadelphia inquirer.com/opinion/commen… via @phillyinquirer

A cool paper! Thermal cooling, but not chemesthetic cooling, decreases lingual roughness sensitivity. Congratulations to Sebastiano Ricci and Min Sun (Kevin) Kim. Read about it here…doi.org/10.1093/chemse…

Come learn about the Principles of Sensory Evaluation at our 2.5 day short course May 14th through 16th taught by me and Dr. Helene Hopfer (she/her) in our facility at Penn State. Sensory@PennState

web.cvent.com/event/e769aada…

NIMBY greens need to do some serious introspection on why they reflexively hate pro climate growth…

Would be nice if environmentalist organizations would try to help address climate change.

reuters.com/sustainability…

New work from Maddie Harper, Paige Cunningham and Ciaran Forde shows that when given a constant serving size, the size of each pretzel influences both sodium intake and energy intake, via differences in eating rate.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1ineuiVKTl93u

#sensorynutrition
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🟥 Red state housing production
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🟦 Blue state housing production

If you're a progressive in a blue state, this is your sign to get to work.

Katie Britt about to sell you some LuLaRoe…

How does Ezra Klein like them apples? #SOTU