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Wall of LEDs lets you paint temporary graffiti with water
Graffiti art can make the urban landscape way more beautiful and interesting, but some people object to permanent decorations on their buildings. Solution: Water Light Graffiti, by artist Antonin Fourneau, working in residence at Digitalarti Artlab. His wall of water-sensitive LEDs allowed visitors in Poitiers, France to create temporary masterpieces using waterguns, spray bottles, hoses, or […]
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Counting the harvest: How numbers can save urban gardens
In 2010, just 67 New York gardens yielded 87,000 pounds of food. Some experts believe data like this is crucial to ensuring the urban agriculture movement takes root.
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Seven years after Katrina, Gulf Coast rail could return bigger than before
Amtrak suspended portions of its Sunset Limited route after Hurricane Katrina washed away swaths of rail. Now mayors from New Orleans to Florida want to bring back more trains than before.
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Number of bees in Queens man’s yard exceeds population of Queens
New York legalized beekeeping in 2010, but that does not mean that it was cool with city officials when they discovered that a guy in Queens named Yi Gin Chen had 45 beehives in his yard, containing 3 million bees. That’s more bees than there are people who live in Queens.
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Stuck in traffic, cancer surgeon commandeers little girl’s bike to get to the hospital
The surgeon borrowed an 8-year-old's pink Schwinn and Disney princess helmet to make it to the operating table in time.
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Why does mass transit in the U.S. cost so much more to build than in other countries?
Basically because we rely too heavily on contractors, allow too much time for construction, and insist on extravagant stations.
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World’s biggest bus is 98 feet long and can fit 256 passengers
This monster of public transportation is actually three buses chained together into a sort of Vehicular Centipede. It’s nearly 100 feet long, fits 256 passengers, and — if you believe the institute that developed it — is no harder to drive than a regular 40-footer. So basically, it’s a subway train minus the complicated underground […]
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A single sticker turns your bus commute into a monster rampage
All the monster sticker needs is a window on a moving tram or bus. The goal: Move your head so that the monster eats the heads of people (or dogs) that you pass.
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Tropical Storm Isaac scrambles GOP plans, heads directly for New Orleans
The most recent prediciton for Tropical Storm Isaac shows that it's due to hit New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of Katrina's landfall.
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How Boston and New York hope to avoid becoming Atlantis
New efforts by both cities are trying to address sea-level rise before it becomes a big problem.
