Tom Vanderbilt writes at length about merging philosophy in his book, Traffic. It seems that the Illinois Department of Transportation is now experimenting with some new ideas in merging.
The Quad-City Times writes about the new Illinois DOT signage:
There’s a new sign in town, and it may just change everything.
The Illinois .Read more...
Fast Company looks at Michelin‘s new ‘self-healing tire’:
Bicycle tire tubes need to stay firmly inflated against the inner surface of the tires themselves to ensure safe, rugged riding. But in the unlucky event of a puncture, that same pressure will only stretch the hole wider — even when it’s closed .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times weigh in on the recent study from the American Academy of Pediatrics on child safety and car seats:
Madonna Behen from the New York Times:“People cheer when they turn their kid around at one year, but hopefully some day they’ll cheer at .Read more...
Baseball (and statistics) celebrity Bill James of Boston Red Sox fame is turning his focus to serial killers. Wired Magazine looks at James and his new book:
In addition to wondering about slugging percentages and pitching records, though, James has long been asking questions like: Why do some crimes become more .Read more...
Traffic guru Tom Vanderbilt discusses Twitter and traffic at Salon.com:
On an early Friday morning rush hour last month, a Seattle-area web designer named Michael Micheletti was driving his BMW, “check engine” light blazing, to his dealer to be serviced. In some kind of disharmonic convergence, the car gave out a .Read more...
William Yardley and the New York Times examines the common themes of politics, development, city planning, the environment, traffic, and how to move forward. The issue at hand: the Alaskan Way Viaduct:
For a decade, since a 2001 earthquake exposed the viaduct’s vulnerability, this ambitious but frequently indecisive city has been .Read more...
Humorist P.J. O’Rourke takes aim at bicycles:
The bicycle is a parody of a wheeled vehicle—a donkey cart without the cart, where you do the work of the donkey. Although the technology necessary to build a bicycle has been around since ancient Egypt, bikes didn’t appear until the 19th century. The .Read more...
Patrick Smith at Salon.com examines that treacherous trek from your seat on the plane to where you want to be.
In a way, choosing a favorite airport is akin to choosing a favorite hospital: Conveniences and accouterments aside, nobody really wants to be there in the first place, and the easier and faster .Read more...
One aspect of the news regarding Osama Bin Laden was the rapid DNA match that confirmed his identity. Kit Eaton at Fast Company magazine takes a look at ‘DNA matching‘ and how it was used by the military.
DNA matching (also known as genetic fingerprinting) is different to full DNA sequencing–a .Read more...
