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Newark Mayor Cory Booker uses Twitter and references Camus in a single bound
Cory Booker has proven he can use social media, shovel snow, and throw around fancy French philosophy.
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If you're so happy in your car, why are you so mad at the people walking?
Next time you're driving, remember that pedestrians aren't trying to annoy you. They're trying to get across the street without getting killed -- and a lot of the time, the street isn't designed for them.
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Making iPad music from the New York City subway map
Musician and programmer Alexander Chen wants to turn the New York subway system into a user-driven iPad musical instrument.
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New report quantifies just how much a car commute crushes your soul
The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University has released its annual Urban Mobility Report, which includes data on how much time, money, and mental health urban-area car commuters lose to congestion every year. Spoiler alert: Car commuting is expensive, crazy-making, and bad for the environment.
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China's biggest cities grow its greenest citizens
People in large Chinese cities are more environmentally aware -- and more likely to act on that awareness -- than those in smaller cities.
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Six reasons free parking is the dumbest thing you didn't know you were subsidizing
The U.S. has as many as eight parking spaces per car. That's more than a billion parking spaces, or one for every person in China, should they need them once they're done buying all our post-crash assets for jiǎos on the yuán. This isn't just overkill -- it's stupid, destructive, expensive overkill.
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What does it mean to ride a bicycle responsibly?
There has never been a unified code of behavior for bicycling, so people have been left to hash it out on the street. With more people riding all the time, that's becoming an issue. So who is really responsible?
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Building bike infrastructure creates more jobs, plus people want this stuff
John Boehner has said that Americans don't "look very kindly" on bike infrastructure. Seems he might be wrong.
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What happened in Brisbane could happen to us
Here's one reason it's important for us to look these catastrophes in the face and realize that they can happen to us: They reveal how weak our systems are. All of our modern sophistication, our gadgets, our smart cars and phones and grids, can be knocked out by an extreme weather event. We need to admit we have a problem, so that we can create resilient solutions.
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Walmart wants a piece of New York City
Walmart has so far been shut out of the Big Apple. Now they're back, using a fancy new PR campaign with all the social-media bells and whistles.
