The latest street danger? Walking and texting Brick Lane in London now has padded lampposts to help prevent injury to those who feel the need compose text massages while actually walking. There are those who believe that the pattern etched by humanity across the great book of world history is one of linear progression. Of improvement. Of advance. Of some nebulous but discernible form of betterment. Those are the people who ... Read full entry

Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus. Buses travel in packs. It's a universal constant. So if you've just missed a pack of buses that were meant to be travelling 20 minutes apart, what should you do? Wait for another bus-pack, or walk to your destination? Scott Kominers, a mathematician at Harvard University, and his colleagues derived a formula for the optimal time that you should wait for a ... Read full entry