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Why it’s hard to recognize the unlikely.

Should extraterrestrials be looking down at Earth from space, they would know a few things about us humans. They would know our routines are dictated by the sun. They would see that we tend to congregate and build near water. But perhaps most of all, they would know that we move. Today’s world is an […]

Past disasters help us prepare—and make us pay attention.

How would you like to get around in a vehicle that “never crashes, that’s at least twice as fast as a plane, that’s solar powered, and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a departure time”? Sounds a little too good to be true, but that is precisely what serial […]

How shipping containers made distance irrelevant.

Why food aid needs to overhaul its delivery system.

The banana’s journey from the plantation to you is one long science project.

Transportation optimization starts with math, but ends in understanding human behavior.

When the biggest problem with traffic is nothing at all.

Those aggravating slowdowns aren’t one driver’s fault. They’re everybody’s fault.