Gary Lauder expounds at the TED Conference about ‘Taking Turns’.
Ed Wagner, Tulsa Alternative Transportation Examiner, weighs in with a pro-Yield view:
For most drivers, stop signs have become defacto yields. We should recognize this and simply replace them with true yield signs. I realize it wouldn’t help those kids .Read more...
Newsweek’s Sharon Begley opines on the need for nuclear forensics:
The U.S. has not stood out in advancing the cause of nuclear attribution even at home. A 2008 analysis by physicists and nuclear chemists for the American Physical Society and AAAS concluded the U.S. .Read more...
The Allstate Foundation recently conducted a new survey, Shifting Teen Attitudes: The State of Teen Driving 2009.
Texting is teen’s biggest distraction behind the wheel:
More than 49% of teens report texting as a distraction, up from 31% in 2005 82% of teens report using cell phones .Read more...Michael Seringhaus recently argued in the New York Times to keep everyone’s DNA on file in police databases:
The president was correct in saying that we need a more robust DNA database, available to law enforcement in every state, to “continue to tighten the grip around folks who have .Read more...
With the movement towards alternative energy in full swing, a couple of MIT graduates, Zack Anderson and Shakeel Avadhany, are harnessing the power of potholes. Their company, Levant Power, is turning the bruising up-and-downs of the suspension system into available automotive energy.
From the Levant Power company website:
Levant Power Corp. has .Read more...
NASA released the first images from the new Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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A landslide in Keelung, Taiwan on April 25, 2010.
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Investigators found a an extensive amount of forensic evidence as they reviewed the Times Square SUV and bomb material.The New York Times reports on the failed bomb:
Among the enduring images left by car bombings, overseas or in the United States, is investigators on their hands and knees, crawling .Read more...
