Annals of Transport: There and Back Again: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – “Three years ago, two economists at the University of Zurich…found that, if your trip is an hour each way, you

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – “People tend to behave in their cars as though they are alone in a room. Road rage is one symptom of this; on the street or on the train, people don

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – “There

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – “‘Drive until you qualify’ is a phrase that real-estate agents use to describe a central tenet of the commuting life: you travel away from the workplace until you reach an exit where you can afford to buy a house that meets…more

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – “Pisarski calls commuting ‘the interaction of demography with geography,’ and the nuances are legion.”

Fix your mom’s computer for mother’s day – Joel on Software

current work – visualizing the plastic bags, shipping containers, war money, guns, drugs, and more used in the United States. Incredibly powerful.

“If I look at the mass I will never act”: Psychic numbing and genocide – “In this paper I have drawn upon common observation and behavioral research to argue that we cannot depend only upon our moral feelings to motivate us to take proper actions against genocide. That places the burden of response squarely upon…more

“If I look at the mass I will never act”: Psychic numbing and genocide Mother Teresa: “If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”