Human Interest

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Name That Data, city streets edition.

| Transformative technologies across Australia

Researchers have known for years that hosting large sporting events like the Olympics always costs more than expected and always yields less revenue and useful long-term infrastructure than estimated. Now voters and politicians in democratically elected countries are starting to realise the same thing.

Many low income people in urban and suburban areas struggle to find reliable transportation. The result is missed appointments and poor illness management, even when care is readily available.

Traffic fatalities are one of the leading causes of death in cities across the globe, and it’s worst where there’s most sprawl.

Opposition to the Nazi regime declined near the Autobahn faster than everywhere else.

One of the world’s most dazzling engineering feats is largely hidden from view, as Tim Maughan discovers when he took a futuristic journey on a container ship.

The world is a crowded place, with more than 7 billion people on the planet as of 2014. About half of this population lives in urban areas, and ongoing migration into city centers has given rise to the megacity—a metropolitan area with 10 million people or more.

This video is currently going viral and has been seen by over 6 million people. A crowd funding campaign is currently underway for “Solar Roadways” which would essentially turn all roads into ways solar panels, which would end our reliance on oil. I, for one, support this project. Wouldn’t you? Watch the video below and [...]

Le foto delle barriere che continuano a separare pezzi di terra e persone per ragioni politiche, religiose o di sicurezza (anche in Italia)