The artist Christo is in the news again with his proposed art installation ‘Over the River’. The New York Times reports:
Assessing a work of art using in-depth technical analysis sounds a bit like writing a scholarly treatise about a joke. If you peer inside too deeply, armed with .Read more...
Only ten years ago China consumed roughly half the energy consumed by the United States. Fast forward to 2010 and China has now surpassed the United States in energy consumption according to some studies. For more than 100 years the United States led the world in energy consumption. The Wall .Read more...
Wired magazine profiles New York City traffic guru Charles Komanoff:
Charles Komanoff has spent three years building a model of the traffic patterns in New York City. The result is an exhaustive accounting of every mile traveled, every slowdown encountered, and every hour wasted. (Above), a rundown of traffic .Read more...
Advertising Age has an interesting article about the declining percentage of teen drivers on the road:
In 1978, nearly half of 16-year-olds and three-quarters of 17-year-olds in the U.S. had their driver’s licenses, according to Department of Transportation data. By 2008, the most recent year data was available, .Read more...
Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic, writes at Slate about the evolution and possible future of stop signs as a traffic device. It’s good to remember that all of these traffic elements we take for granted (stop signs and drivers licenses to name two) evolved and changed over time.
Like many forms .Read more...
From TED.com:
Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate.
