A friend of mine, Josh Sunshine, has had a long-standing interest in transportation, especially technological innovations within the transportation field. He has recently begun writing a very thoughtful and thought-provoking blog, called the New Transportation Blog, which he is using to explore these ideas. For some highlights, check out his often-updated Why We Can Do [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Human Anatomy Terms That Sound Like Things You Would Go See on a Vacation
My newest humor piece, Human Anatomy Terms That Sound Like Things You Would Go See on a Vacation, has just been published.
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The People’s Bills
Update: as noted in the comments and elsewhere, it is currently in violation of NFL rules for a team to be shareholder-owned. However, this could be changing. A congressman from Buffalo is petitioning the head of the league to get it changed! As frequent readers of this blog might know, I grew up in Buffalo. [...]
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1970′s Chicago-New York Competition
The Freakonomics blog has a nice post about Chicago and New York duking it out back in the 1970′s for financial dominance.
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Why Cities Still Matter
Tim Harford recently had nice little column in Wired about why, despite all our wonderful Internets, living in cities and seeing people still matters. He argues that technology complements the need for people to live near each other, rather than simply supplanting it. And he backs it up with some studies. (thanks to Ari Kahan [...]
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Unrelated-Content Thursday: Eurovision Songs that have become part of the Israeli Music Canon
I had always thought that Eurovision was for light-hearted pop candy, along the likes of ABBA. Thus, I was surprised to discover that numerous songs, which I had thought to have been part of the Israel musical vernacular for just about forever are in fact Israeli Eurovision entries. Apparently, songs I learned when I was [...]
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Atlantropa is popular again?
I have recently been receiving a larger number of hits than usual to my post on Atlantropa. Would anyone who is visiting for this reason care to enlighten me as to why? Are we planning on damming the Strait of Gibraltar? My guess is that there is some sort of documentary in Europe about this [...]
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LEGO Greenwich Village
Here is another post in my periodic series of LEGO city-related structures: a LEGO Greenwich Village. Created by Sean Kenney, who earns a living constructing some incredible LEGO models, this Greenwich Village contains some amazing attention to detail. Look carefully at the different pictures for some fun little surprises.
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Urbanization in the Ancient Near East
This past year, archaeologists found that Tell Brack, an ancient city in Syria, was founded around the same time as Sumerian cities from around 6,000 years ago. This is contrast to the assumption that cities were initially founded in southern Mesopotamia, and the idea of urbanization spread out from there. Of course, Tell Brak became [...]
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