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If we had Dutch-style intersections, we'd ride our bikes everywhere, too
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If we had Dutch-style intersections, we’d ride our bikes everywhere, too. 8221; — reveal just how much of the road goes to waste. In Dutch cities, as many as seven in 10 trips. Are taken by bicycle, but accommodating so much bike traffic requires careful planning. Kolkata recently banned cycling. On many city streets with the the desperate hope of relieving congestion, a measure that might well prove counterproductive. Click below for links to research on bike-friendly planning. Want to Know More?
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The Hook: Canadian Political News Blog with the Latest Articles and Stories | The Tyee
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Urban Planning and Architecture. Independent media needs you. The Hook: Political news, freshly caught. We are reeling in The Hook, for now. December 22, 2014 02:50 pm. The Tyee is an evolving creature and we've decided it's time to lose the appendage that is The Hook - for now, at least. Read more. How do you get your bibliotherapy, Tyee readers? I'd rather watch Netflix. None of the above. Take the poll now ». Last week: What headlines you want to see this summer. Read the results of that poll here.
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This hilarious graph of Netflix speeds shows the importance of net neutrality
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This hilarious graph of Netflix speeds shows the importance of net neutrality. Since Netflix gave into Comcast’s demands for payment in exchange for a promise to deliver movies smoothly over the Internet to Netflix’s customers, speeds on Comcast for Netflix users have rocketed upward. Speeds on the larger service providers have been decreasing steadily. To its subscribers in the form of higher rates. As the Federal Communications Commission considers new rules. April 25, 2014 at 11:20 am. The American ci...
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Welcome to Know More
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Welcome to Know More. Our job is to give you a place to start. Each post is a picture, chart, video, or quote that, we hope, will fascinate. You, or fascinate a friend who shares it with you. But at the bottom of every post is the option to really “Know More”. Click on that button and we’ll take you deeper. Much deeper. It’s the red pill — you take it, and we’ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Let’s get started, shall we? October 7, 2013 at 2:40 am. The states that eat the most fruits and veggies.
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The U.S. just published a gorgeous new topographical map of the moon
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The US. just published a gorgeous new topographical map of the moon. On Apr. 13, the U.S. Geological Survey published new topographical maps of the moon that it prepared for NASA. The data comes from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, an instrument on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. The iron-rich composition of these areas makes less reflective. This makes them appear darker when viewed from Earth, forming “the Man on the Moon.”. Ana Swanson April 14, 2015 at 1:16 pm. The states where mor...
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Where Americans are wasting the most time on their lawns
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Where Americans are wasting the most time on their lawns. The US. has about 40 million acres of lawn in the lower 48 states, according to estimates made by NASA in 2005. That is equal to almost 2 percent of the surface of the continental U.S. — about three times the space taken up by irrigated corn. To read more of Ingraham’s piece, click “Know More.”. Ana Swanson August 6, 2015 at 1:13 pm. Lawns are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without them. Fantastical designs from the fr...
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Managed Retreat: March 2015
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There is only one way to escape the alienation of present-day society: retreat ahead of it". Roland Barthes, Pleasure of the Text. Thursday, 19 March 2015. The marginal lands of Essex: Doctor Who on Tillingham Marshes in ' Carnival of Monsters. Tuesday, 17 March 2015. The Seattle mapmaker and urban planner Jeffrey Linn. Below is Great Britain at various depths. Similar to the Greenhouse Britain. Work of Harrison& Harrison. Monday, 16 March 2015. Illustration by Rob Pybus. For a New York Times editorial:.
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Hand strength in Texas hold’em, visualized
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Hand strength in Texas hold’em, visualized. Chris Beaumont, a software engineer at Counsyl, has created some cool visualizations. Showing the strength of different hands in Texas hold’em. The graphs are based on Beaumont’s enumeration of all roughly 1.3 trillion hands of heads-up Texas hold’em, plus data on several million online poker hands. There are some interesting trends here: For one, the brighter box in the upper-right hand corner suggests that 10s are much more likely to be played than 9s. Be...
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Where rich countries are grabbing up land around the world
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Where rich countries are grabbing up land around the world. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that most of the world’s countries had bought or sold land internationally as of 2012 126 of the 195 countries recognized by the UN, according to their report. But the trade is dominated by just a few players, namely China, the U.K. and the U.S. China ranks as the most active country in the world in land trade, purchasing land from 33 countries and but selling it to only three. The U.S. ...The next ...
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The most introverted and extroverted states in America
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The most introverted and extroverted states in America. According to a new study. From psychologists at the University of Virginia, introverts and extroverts may seek out different types of natural environments for a home. To read more about the study, click “Know More.”. Ana Swanson August 10, 2015 at 9:33 am. A simple choice between two gorgeous photos reveals your personality. What California would look like if the world’s ice sheets melt. The most searched comfort foods last winter, mapped. What the ...
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