What can the history of transportation in America teach us about the future of private automobile ownership in America? Quite a bit, actually, according to Maurie Cohen, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Cohen reasons that the automobile is no different from other [...]
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The video above is noted without comment courtesy of Mashable. And then there’s this, from The Atlantic: “The Dow Jones industrial average is poised to set a new record as corporate profits stretch to all-time highs. There are still fewer working Americans today than there were before the start of the Great Recession. The fact [...]
Look, I don’t have anything profound to add on the shooting in Connecticut. I was travelling all day Friday from a work trip in Austin, Texas. I heard about it from my cab driver, a Moroccan immigrant with two small children of his own. He could barely contain his tears as he asked me if [...]
About 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as no religion in particular, agnostic or atheist — a figure that has doubled since a similar survey was taken in 1990. Also, that number increases to a third when you focus on people under 30. That’s not to say those people don’t believe in God, it’s just [...]
Riffing off the famed post that you can’t be further than 107 miles from the closest McDonalds in America, Jim Davenport crunched the data on Starbucks to determine the farthest one can get from the ubiquitous coffee shop is approximately 170 miles. But, that’s just a jumping off point for a more cogent examination of the [...]
There is nothing bad about the trend of more jobs in America and selling those products to one of the largest markets in the world.
American history through the eyes of the Republican Party’s best and brightest: 1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”—Rick Perry 1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near [...]
From CNN: “When commercial photographer O. Winston Link turned his attention to the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1955, he created beautiful and timeless images of one of the last steam-powered locomotive railroad systems in the United States.” Link used flashbulbs to illuminate the trains and stations at night, along with parallel-wired flashes so his [...]
The Atlantic examines the reaction many first-time visitors to America have about the country. The U.S. can be such a jarringly strange place for many foreign visitors that travel guidebooks detail everything from the dangers of talking politics to tips on respecting Americans’ famously guarded personal space. But what do those visitors find when they actually get [...]
A nice follow-up to the story about American athletes and the flag, comes the story of America’s refusal to dip their flag to the host nation during the opening ceremony. Other countries see it as arrogant, but it’s become an American tradition dating back to at least the 1908 Summer games when shotputter Ralph Rose, [...]
