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To solve the transportation problem in a city, put everything online. Publishing raw data would enable people to run simulations and create proposals.
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Michael Schrage would rather invest in a counterpart of Ryanair, than in fixed track locations: “It may work for Asia and Europe, but people are closer together, the city densities […]
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The role of the federal government should be to facilitate opportunity and choice for people who wish to travel.
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“I don’t believe people are going to give up on the wheels of a car for the foreseeable future,” says the transportation researcher.
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The price improvement curve ahead of us for space travel could improve from $45 million to $100, says Peter Diamandis.
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Someday we could have the ability to pay for a car to take us from point A to point B the moment we want to go.
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Peter Diamandis wonders what fields have the potential to innovate with prizes like his creation, the X PRIZE.
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There are three main reasons we need to go into space now, and one of them is to back up the biosphere.
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A conversation with the Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation.
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The writer talks about whom he most enjoys cooking for, drinking with Mario Batali in Spain, and whom he’d serve if he could cook for anyone.
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Coming up with the inspiration for new recipes starts with shopping and ends in kitchen experiments.
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Proposals to tax sugary sodas are good — but plans to remove salt from restaurants are “moronic.”
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The writer talks about the virtues of eating locally grown food and what foods he considers guilty pleasures.
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Why a meat-eating Japanese chef limits herself to vegan cooking, and how the foodie culture has spread.
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How a food lover can eat healthily and be environmentally responsible.
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What do you do when you’ve got guests on the way and barely any time to prepare for them? The New York Times cooking columnist comes to your rescue.
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How at-home cooks can stock their pantry with vital ingredients, avoid bad kitchen habits, and make better meals.
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The New York Times blogger on his first food memories, and how he got into cooking.
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A conversation with the author and New York Times cooking columnist.
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The New School University anthropologist thinks insects are “astonishingly beautiful,” both individually and en masse.
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The New School anthropologist explains why, instead of killing bugs, we should pay attention to them and think about their place in the world around us.
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There’s a lot of irrational fear of insects among humans, but there are some that can be lethal.
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The New School anthropologist explains how using language about insects in reference to people can lead to violent acts.
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Some men find videos of women crushing insects a turn-on, which the professor thinks is probably connected to their size, sound and texture.
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People tend to think of insects as having very rigid and well-developed social organization. During the Cold War, insect colonies were considered examples for how communist social systems should work.
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People project their fears, desires, and yearnings onto insects, and many of our ideas about society and social organization have been worked out on them.
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A conversation with the anthropology professor at New School University.
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The NAACP president’s favorite comedian is also his godbrother.
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As a person of “mixed race,” the NAACP president has little use for racial categories.
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