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There's a great paper by one of my former professors about communicating uncertainty in climate change reporting.

Translation for Americans: "points" are track switches.

non-Polynesian is the white guy who played both the chicken and the guy who wanted to eat the chicken

That man would be Alan Tudyk, who also voiced King Candy in Wreck-it Ralph and the duke in Frozen.

American passenger trains are also heavier because they have crazy strength requirements (able to survive a head on crash with a freight train). For unelectrified lines: heavier = more power = larger diesel engines.

Trains on the Northeast Corridor are electrified and are relatively quiet.

Thanks so much for all your great work as a journalist.

I recently went to a book talk by John Carreyrou where he discussed his latest book on the Theranos scandal. He brought up an interesting point about the (stereotypical) Silicon Valley mindset: institutions are not to be trusted and are, instead, to be swept away or disrupted. At the same time, though, institutions are valuable. Some might argue that they're foundational to society.

What do you think has led to this mindset in SV? Why do they have such a distaste for institutions?

Also, did you ever work with John when you were at the WSJ?