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@nippon_enMar 19
Japan's "pointing and calling" safety method dates back over a century. nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g…

Pointing and Calling: Japan’s Railway Safety Technique

Just before trains depart in Japan, conductors point white-gloved hands in the direction of travel and announce that it is safe to start moving. This eye-catching action may seem unusual to foreign...

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@GeekedMemesFeb 11
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Pieps MINI IPS First Look Review is up on our website. We’ve been testing pre production models of this new transceiver all last season: avalanchegeeks.com/2025/10/0…
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Walter Ego
@ItsWalterEgo9 May 2025
Follow @ItsWalterEgo for more threads on philosophy, tactical thinking, and storytelling. Follow @PinkFreudWrites for deep dives into psychology. Ever seen a crazier game than this? Tell me. Retweet the first post to share this madness. xitter.cf/ItsWalterEgo/status/19…
Walter Ego
@ItsWalterEgo9 May 2025
In 1994, a football team discovered a loophole so absurd, they broke the game. They won the match by scoring an own goal. ON PURPOSE. What followed changed how we see soccer and game theory forever. -Thread- 👇
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Our article: Avalanche Considerations in Couloirs is circulated in the backdrop journal. Check it out. backdropjournal.com/journal/…

Avalanche Considerations in Couloirs — Backdrop Journal

Friend of Backdrop, Mike Austin of Avalanche Geeks, shares with us a fascinating article he wrote about things to bear in mind when preparing to ride steep couloirs.

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🚨 What’s happening in Sicily - Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary Mount Etna is erupting with its summit covered in snow Here are some explorers skiing between snow and fire! Unprecedented
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Interesting on two levels. The pilot's decision to follow his intuition and the tone of the reactions in the comments.
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#Avalanche | ⚠️ Risque marqué (3/5) dès demain, samedi 7 décembre en #HauteSavoie, sur les massifs du Chablais, des Aravis & du Montblanc au-delà de 2200m. ❄️ 📢 Soyez prudents & responsables. Sachez renoncer ou changer d'objectif !
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Since the demise of Fatmap we've been looking at alternative 3D mapping tools that have avalanche angle overlays. instagram.com/p/DDMuHwEtJN-/…
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Black Turkey events & other statistical outliers. More here: avalanchegeeks.com/2023/11/0…
National Park Service
@NatlParkService27 Nov 2024
Your chances of being hunted by a turkey are low, but never zero.
A large turkey peers through glass doors of the Jewel Cave Visitor Center.

ALT A large turkey peers through glass doors of the Jewel Cave Visitor Center.

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Pieps PRO IPS voluntary recall: pieps.com/en/2024-pieps-pro-…
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Listening for an overview of Naturalistic Decision Making? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…

Ep. 234: Dr. Gary Klein - On Lessons in Naturalistic Decision-Making

Podcast Episode · The Decision-Making Studio Podcast · 16 November 2024 · 1hr 11min

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An example of survivorship bias: you tend to ask ChatGPT questions about things outside your specialty; it infers your personality based on questions you ask not those you don't ask.
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@nntaleb13 Nov 2024
Chat GPT comparing me, based on my questions, to Nassim Taleb.
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Johan Gaume@johan_gaume29 Oct 2024
✨Congratulations to Lars Blatny for publishing his model for #cohesive, #compressible #granular flows in @JFluidMech ! This new elasto-viscoplastic model opens up new ways to simulate materials as sand & snow in both #solid & #fluid states, including complex #fracture processes – at Zurich, Switzerland
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Jan Beutel
@jan_beutel28 Oct 2024
Ooops. Permafrost degradation in steep rock walls at it's best. Luckily this one hit Piste 36 „Mittelberg“ (3250m asl) in the Pitztal glacier ski area during the night - no one got hurt. maps.app.goo.gl/uQGdWwceg4ge… Read more on tirol.orf.at/stories/3279101…
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Powder@PowderMagazine21 Oct 2024
First Skier Triggered Avalanche of Season Reported in Colorado trib.al/pRZGMSh

First Skier Triggered Avalanche of Season Reported in Colorado

Two skiers encountered a slide near Silverton Mountain but skied away safely.

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Long term review of the Pieps IPS Pro is now up on our website. A deep dive on Pieps latest flagship model and their crusade against electronic magnetic interference (EMI). @blackdiamond_snow @pieps_technology avalanchegeeks.com/articles/
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Well hello old friend.
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The value of Marginal Gains. Small changes that we can make add up to big differences over time.
Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan14 Aug 2024
One of the major initiatives for Starbucks outgoing CEO was the Siren System, a $450m project to overhaul the bar design to speed up service. If each of the Starbucks 40k locations served 5 more people a day, that was a ~$1B annual sales bump. This video shows the optimized layout with key ingredients (pumps, caffeine, dairy, ice) placed in a certain order. A major reason for the new design is that there are 380B+ potential drink combinations at Starbucks. And orders have gotten so ridiculously elaborate, that the average wait time is 5 minutes. Take a Mocha Frappuccino: ▫️Under the existing system, it takes 16 steps and 87 seconds ▫️Under Siren System, it will be 14 steps and 36 seconds. Helps the baristas manage the crazy volume of app orders. Could be one thing that lasts from Laxman Narasimhan’s otherwise underwhelming CEO run. *** Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Melaine Le Roy@subfossilguy5 Aug 2024
Around 3:00 am last night a serac fall in the N face of Mt Blanc du Tacul (~4100 m asl) left one dead and four injured 😢 This face is known for this kind of hazard (see next tweet) Pic below (5:15 am) shows the release area (red dot), the deposit and the rescue lights at work 1/
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