• NYT: Young Adults Are Giving Newspapers Scant Notice
  Clearly, newspapers have to find new ways to reach the young’uns. This article provides questions, but no answers.
  (tags: journalism newspapers media msm)

• Atlanta Magazine - Driving and Crying
  “In statistics as fresh as 2005, automobile accidents are the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 20.”
  (tags: transportation traffic atlanta driving suburbs)

• Girls who complain about their problems at greater risk of developing anxiety and depression
  h/t: Jessica Doyle
  (tags: psychology depression blogging)

• The Wearable Cardiac Telemedicine System
  “A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack… The device measures electrical signals from the heart, analyses them, and sends an alert together with an ECG by cell phone text message.
  (tags: bluetooth healthcare heartattack)

• Foreign Policy: The Ideology of Development
  “This blowback against “globalization from above” has spread to every corner of the Earth. It now threatens to kill sensible, moderate steps toward the freer movement of goods, ideas, capital, and people.”
  (tags: Economics poverty development globalization ideology)
• Solar Power Captures Imagination, Not Money
  “Scientists long ago calculated that an hour’s worth of the sunlight bathing the planet held far more energy than humans worldwide could use in a year, and the first practical devices for converting light to electricity were designed more than half a ce
  (tags: SolarEnergy)

• 10 Reasons There’s a Bright Future for Journalism
  #5: “Collaborative investigations between pro and amateur journalists.”
  (tags: journalism media blogging)

• Governing: Houses/October 2006
  “Is there really anything “historic” about cookie-cutter subdivisions? Is the rest of postwar suburbia — McDonald’s, strip malls and motels — also headed for the National Register of Historic Places?
  (tags: suburbs Architecture planning Docomomo HistoricPreservation preservation crapitecture)

This is what of the scene I was able to capture this afternoon from the wreck on I-85 South, closing all but one lane in each direction:

According to the story on the AJC website

the bus driver struck a median wall, disabling the steering. “The steering parts underneath the bus broke,” police spokesman Eric Schwartz said. The bus then hit utility poles, according to Schwartz. Two people were thrown from the bus into the northbound HOV lane. It was unclear if they were the same two people who died in the accident.

The story erroneously states (sourcing the GDOT website) that four NB lanes and two SB lanes were closed as a result of the wreck. When we passed by it, all but one lane was closed off in each direction.

We spotted one of the bodies in the NB HOV lane, though it was covered by a blanket.

Someone I used to work with once told me she thought transit was “gross.” But, really, that word is a more fitting description of traffic fatalities. This sort of thing happens every day in America.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office identified the dead as Sharon E. Murray, 34, of Dunwoody, and Gary G. Pleasant, 64, of Atlanta.