2+ day, 57+ min ago  (1322+ words) Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6. 4 percent, and the United States just 0. 25 percent. Travel in Japan is…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (460+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. As they burst open, they briefly force open biological barriers that are otherwise impenetrable, such as the blood-brain barrier, allowing treatments to pass through. The force of their bursts can even…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (481+ words) Since then the aquifer has lost 286. 4 million acre-feet of water, comparable to draining Lake Erie entirely. The parts of it beneath arid states have seen much bigger drops. Large parts of Western Kansas have lost 50 percent of their aquifer depth....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (178+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Yet just a decade after Nance's speech, two thirds of American homes had a TV set, including 78 percent of those in cities. As early as 1948, public housing officials were already debating…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1203+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Some American employers offer more generous redundancy packages, like Google in the example above. But this happens because American businesses want the concessions that they extract in exchange, such as non-disclosure…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1203+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Some American employers offer more generous redundancy packages, like Google in the example above. But this happens because American businesses want the concessions that they extract in exchange, such as non-disclosure…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1480+ words) The Turritopsis dohrnii is a small, bell-shaped jellyfish found in temperate and tropical waters. It has stinging tentacles and is completely transparent, allowing you to see its pulsating internal organs. It's a predator and hunts in the open ocean, feeding…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (367+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Western cities today grow much more slowly. Between 2010 and 2020, New York's, London's and Paris's metropolitan areas grew by an average of 0. 6 percent per year, while even the fastest-growing cities, like Houston…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (672+ words) A lot of what we find interesting about cities is the retail within them. We lean on retail " shops, cafes, restaurants and so on " to make cities what they are. Urban economist Ed Glaeser called this the rise of the…...

3+ mon, 21+ hour ago  (388+ words) Does technological progress really make us better off? Not just richer, or healthier, but happier and able to lead the kind of lives we want to? Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Looking at the evidence of…...