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It took an earthquake to convince one city to do away with a double-decker highway. City planners in San Francisco had tried for years to get approval for removing the Embarcadero Freeway that blocked ...

Picture a bridge made of Legos. One side has three support pieces, the other two. How would you stabilize the bridge? Most people would add a piece so that there are three supports on each side, a new ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hi, I'm Miss James and I'm so happy to be your teacher today. For this lesson, you will need 10 objects ...

We live in a more overwhelming world than ever. Businesses are more complex, work is more demanding, and our data is constantly tracked. Too often, we just accept that as a given. According to author ...

From how we build our cities to how we shop, it can seem as though our natural human tendency is to add. But a culture of accumulation may be exactly what holds us back from the simple solution in ...