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I’m often asked about how I approach New Year’s resolutions. The truth is that I no longer approach them at all, even though I did for decades. Why the change? I have found “past year reviews” (PYR…

Why we can't build our way out of our traffic problems

As they say in the Air Force, ‚No comms no bombs‘, – A technician’s insight into the invisible networks governing military drones and th...

At a time of mounting uncertainty in Europe, the country has defied critics who insisted on austerity as the answer to the Continent’s economic and financial crisis.

This article discusses death and personal bereavement I never intended to make videogames about my brother. He died in May last year, standing in the crowded lobby of the Manchester Arena, at the hands of the radicalised young man who’d walked into the building…

In the Spanish city Pontevedra, a family-friendly “pedestrianization” policy has helped increase the population of kids, despite the country’s low birth rates.

Japan’s extreme audiophiles install private utility poles and transformers for ‘pure’ electricity.

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Located in a humble office space near Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport, Haddington Dynamics doesn’t fit most people’s idea of…

Teachers and other public education employees—such as community-college faculty, school psychologists and janitors—are quitting their jobs at the fastest rate on record, government data show.

Starting in the late 1930s, New York City set out to photograph every property. With those recently digitized photographs in hand, we went back to see how the city has changed — and how it hasn’t.