nytimes.com – We now have a pretty good idea who will be on the ballot in November: Hillary Clinton, almost surely (after the South Carolina blowout, prediction markets give her a 96 […]
The world’s 15 most complicated subway maps
businessinsider.com – flickr/MTA For all its colorful frenzied glory, the Tokyo Metro map isn’t the most complex subway guide in the world. New York and Paris both have it topped—at least in […]
In Los Angeles, city cracks down on tiny wooden houses for the homeless
therealdeal.com – From the Los Angeles website: Los Angeles city officials are cracking down on the proliferation of tiny wooden homes designed to replace tents in L.A.’s homeless encampments. They began impounding […]
What if Midtown Manhattan had a dome?
therealdeal.com – It sounds completely absurd today, but in the Space Age, engineers and futurists hoped to cover Midtown Manhattan with a giant geodesic dome. Plans by architect, systems theorist, author, designer […]
Your doors probably suck, here’s why: VIDEO
therealdeal.com – Unfortunately, bad design is everywhere. How often have you pushed when you should have pulled or vice versa? Well, the good news is that it probably isn’t your fault. Doors […]
What Happened to the Great Divergence?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com – That’s the title of a very interesting speech by Lael Brainard of the Fed, who has been warning for a while that international finance — in particular, the importation of […]
Nobody Can Believe We’re Here, But We’re Here
esquire.com – ATLANTA, GEORGIA—Back before there was Ted Cruz, before there was Young Marco Rubio, even before anger and bigotry gave even vulgar talking yams the gift of speech, there was Congressman […]
Secret Documents Reveal the Sick Mindset of the People Who Signed Off on the Genocide in East Timor
alternet.org – Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also help […]
A tour of NYC’s first micro apartment: VIDEO
therealdeal.com – Located in Manhattan’s Kips Bay neighborhood, Carmel Place is the first micro-apartment development in New York City. Its 55 units range between 265 and 360 square feet, and market-rate units […]
Mapping Brooklyn’s smelliest neighborhood
therealdeal.com – The Gowanus Canal stinks. In fact, so does the whole neighborhood. Gowanus is so pungent that Brooklyn-based architect Annie Barrett was able to create a map of Gowanus based on […]
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