This is great to watch on loop....

[conuly]

Watch on YouTube

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Glitter, wings and whimsy: Black cosplayers turn Georgia woods into a fae wonderland

This is a stupid question, made even moreso by the fact that LW should've asked her local neighbors, not some far-away columnist. Also, all NYC kids take public transportation to get to high school - school bus service ends here after the 6th grade.

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High gas prices spur Americans to improvise, from bus rides to toy cars

In the birthplace of Civil Rights Movement, groups rally to defend Black political representation

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[ionelv]

Of course, the original ball pendulum wave is better IMO (low-fi background music of Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven which reminded me of late 80s/early 90s MOD demo audio files and the Romanian ethno-rock band Phoenix, especially their 1975 Cantafabule album). There are also these pendula:

• bowling ball pendulum
  
• video of a 20-nut fluorescent pendulum wave (with measurements for building a pendulum with as many as 60 balls)
  
• this super-trippy 2023 virtual multi-pendulum (106+ minutes long with music auto-generated from "wall" bounces!).
  

[thewayne]

That was quite awesome!

[redbird]

That subway-riding question is a subset of "Dear Columnist, who is right here and why is it me?" The LW even admits that her husband has more experience here.

If I was giving her practical advice, it would be that her son doesn't need to learn the entire subway system, he just needs to how to get to and from school. Even if there are multiple options, one might be sufficient. For example, at one point I took the E train into the city in the morning, and some afternoons I took the 7 partway home and changed for the E at 74th-Broadway, because I enjoyed the above-ground part of that. Someone else could have just taken the E train in both directions.

So, get a map, and maybe practice the trip ahead of time if her son will be changing at a complicated station like Times Square, rather than taking one train between two more straightforward stations.

I was taking the subway alone when I was ten, and looking back, what seems noteworthy is that my parents were confident that I would actually go to the dentist if they sent me by myself.