Tim Kniep

Director of Sales for Amsterdam UMC. E-racer Cycling for team +Restart. Cyclist for De Kampioen Haarlem. Questions stuff.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

(Trying to) derive English words prounciation (with no luck)

[📹 itsbobbyfinn]

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@sytsu design matters 🤷‍♂️

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@TeslaOwnersNL ik denk dat het veel believer kan worden als FSD toegestaan zou worden (zo lang als bestuurders begrijpen wat de beperkingen zijn!). Wat ik mij afvraag: kunnen we dit positief beïnvloeden? https://t.co/xsb6G48CFk

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@BM_Visser Nee, maar komende 3-5 jaar wel, waarbij het heel fijn zou zijn als meer mensen hun panelen West-Oost zouden oriënteren.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Amsterdam UMC @amsterdamumc]

“Geen reden tot zorgen bij #sporters over covid-19-vaccinatie deze winter.” aldus Harald Jørstad (Sportcardioloog Amsterdam UMC) die samen met Joelle Daems (promovendus sportcardiologie) publiceerde over dit onderwerp in @BJSM_BMJ. 🧵https://t.co/SLyIKGAuW3

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

Why is production even still allowed? Can no other bio based filter be introduced and be made mandatory? @rivm

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

On top of the 8 million human lives, 600 million trees, 200,000 hectares of land, 22 billion tons of water and 84 million tons of CO₂ that the tobacco industry costs every year, cigarette filters contain microplastics

[read more: https://t.co/BMR0dbc4ZE]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

On top of the 8 million human lives, 600 million trees, 200,000 hectares of land, 22 billion tons of water and 84 million tons of CO₂ that the tobacco industry costs every year, cigarette filters contain microplastics

[read more: https://t.co/BMR0dbc4ZE]

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

“give us pause for thought, not only about whether we should any longer be flying on holiday to places…”

Opinion: Vacations as we know it are over | CNN https://t.co/55xqJQFf3F

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@sytsu @thijszonneveld @Sockeloen Asgreen

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@sytsu @thijszonneveld @lvnoord Nee, nee; Woods.

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@PaulGradenwitz @carltothemoooon @strengthPlan In the Netherlands and all over Europe it works great.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

On February 9, 1990, Carl Sagan gave this speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU, expounding on climate observations and energy strategies for a sustainable future, emphasizing solar

[full speech: https://t.co/CLrxMp45kn]

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@SRAMroad can I replace just this broken metal part with which the SRAM brake lever grips the handlebars? Or do I have to get a whole new lever?

[Amsterdam UMC @amsterdamumc]

Sneller herstellen via een app op je telefoon? 🤳 Patiënten zijn vaak één dag na hun #operatie alweer thuis. De #ikHerstel-app, ontwikkeld door onderzoekers van Amsterdam UMC, begeleid patiënten twee weken sneller bij hun herstel na een #buikoperatie.
https://t.co/tCaaW3LXcN

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@D_Blodgett Well written. Looking forward to more news on platforms overtaking Zwift! It feels like they have a problem of what we call in Dutch “law which slows down whoever is ahead”, which is especially true when innovating. They are king now and thus become sluggish.

[Amsterdam UMC @amsterdamumc]

Het is cruciaal om de #oncologischezorg efficiënter in te richten, zodat patiënten de beste zorg krijgen van de juiste specialisten. Dit geldt vooral voor weinig voorkomende #kankersoorten waarvoor specifieke kennis vereist is. Maar hoe ziet #concentratie van deze zorg eruit? 🧵

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

@BM_Visser Dat is toch ook kortzichtige redenatie; volgens die redenatie gaat niemand het doen want er blijf altijd wel een vieze goedkope fabrikant over de grens het doen. Welke oplossing staat u dan wel voor? Kunnen we niet ook eisen stellen aan de import van staal en kunststof?

[Amsterdam UMC @amsterdamumc]

De #laboratoria van Amsterdam UMC, @olvg Lab, @GGDAmsterdam en @sanquin Diagnostiek gaan samenwerken onder de naam Glia Diagnostiek. "Door deze #krachtenbundeling kunnen wij op termijn zowel #patiënten als zorgverleners sneller en beter bedienen." 👩‍🔬https://t.co/xmoYRUMeX0

[Tim Kniep @Timkniep]

Why Arnold Schwarzenegger Wants Us To Focus On "Pollution" Rather Than "Climate Change" - CleanTechnica https://t.co/KsC3F8O54q