Tag: North America
How to be happy with what you have
A psychologist looks into what makes people happy. He finds that people should be thankful for what they've got....
Study: there are too many parking spaces
The environmental impact of parking spaces may rival that of the cars that fill them....
Developing high-speed train travel for the U.S.
The Obama Administration is attempting to catch up to European and Asian high-speed rail projects....
Painting with E. coli
An artist and a scientist have teamed up to create art out of an unlikely medium: bacteria....
Censoring Mark Twain
The Takeaway discusses the significance of removing the "n word" from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ...
Why do we predict?
A new year always brings a spate of predictions about the future -- many of them woefully inaccurate. Why do people bother?...
Living cheaply as American value
Thrift was once a core American value, espoused by people like Benjamin Franklin. What changed?...
Why some American farmers are moving to Mexico
Some US farmers say a steady supply of legal immigrants has become too unreliable, so they're moving to where many of the workers come from: Mexico....
Finding mastodons in ski country
Snowmass Village, Colorado, is home to one of the most significant archeological finds of ice age fossils in North America....
FCC admits: US Broadband embarrassingly slow
The United States pioneered much of the internet. But US broadband connections now lag far behind much of the rest of the world....
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