I was out for drinks with coworkers and talking about last week's blog post, which complains about cars. Being New Yorkers as well, most...

I read an Earth Institute report recently, " Transforming Personal Mobility ", that, well, transformed the way I think about perso...

From The Week , April 3, 2015: Despite the fears of modern parents, children today are much safer than they were two decades ago. The phy...

A few months ago in a post, I mentioned a new type of prosthetic arm that can touch and feel. Suddenly, it seems like news on this front is ...

Pleasant surprise to run into a Steven Pinker quote randomly in Chipotle today. "We will never have a perfect world, but it's no...

I'm reading the classic Pulitzer-Prize-winner The Power Broker , a history of New York City as seen through the biography of Robert Mose...

Let's face it, 2014 was full of lamentable news events, and while I'm usually able to maintain an optimistic outlook by looking at t...