An interesting article on queueing theory and our behavior in traffic, called The Urge to Merge in the New York Times:
The first time I deliberately made special invite room for a sidezoomer this summer — a lane-drop bottleneck en route to Lake Tahoe, me dubiously opening the extra-long space in front of my car — [...]
Entries from August 2008
Urge to Merge
August 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Suspicion Not Required to Search Laptops at Border
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments
In addition to traditional physical searches of your person and belongings, the US Customs and Border Patrol claims the right to search and seize any data that you are traveling with. The contents of your electronic devices (phone, laptop, etc) are all subject to review, seizure, and/or copying by the US government as you cross [...]
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Time to Start Invading Other Planets
August 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Via this Treehugger post, I found a brilliant article entitled Too Many People, Too Much Consumption. I find myself wanting to quote much of the article, so I’ll settle on an excerpt from the opening:
Over some 60 million years, Homo sapiens has evolved into the dominant animal on the planet, acquiring binocular vision, upright posture, [...]
