The Traffic Guru
Wilson Quarterly - In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then by his ideas. His name was Hans Monderman. The idea that made Monderman, who died of cancer in January at the age of 62, most famous is that traditional traffic safety infrastructure—warning signs, traffic lights, metal railings, curbs, painted lines, speed bumps, and so on—is not only often unnecessary, but can endanger those it is meant to protect.
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The Other Darwin
Walrus - Not only the body of Homo sapiens, but the human mind as well has been shaped by evolution. How we think and feel has evolved over millennia, stretching back to our prehistory on the African savannah, and those ancient patterns stay with us, despite the cultural overlay of recorded history and the wide spectrum of individual difference.
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EU plans warning labels on artificial colours
Guardian - Hundreds of products containing the colourings will disappear from shops over the next year following the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) call for a voluntary ban on their use in food products.
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GM crop trials ’should be secret’
BBC - Senior researchers have called for the location of small open-air trials of GM crops to be kept secret.
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GM debate: Cloned meat safe to eat says EU’s food agency
Guardian - Beef and pork produced from healthy cloned cattle and pigs are as safe as meat from conventionally bred animals, the European Food Safety Authority said yesterday.
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Why are doctors so oddly thin-skinned?
Independent - There will be more grumpiness than usual this week in doctors’ surgeries across the country. GPs, already wearied by the demands of anxious, needy members of the public, have another reason for discontent. They are not, as a profession, trusted quite as much as they feel they should be. Under a new scheme, they are to be appraised, of all humiliating things, once a year.
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Mankind to wage wars for water by 2025
Pravda - The shortage of fresh water on planet Earth is likely to become the biggest problem ever during the forthcoming decades. Experts from the International Water Management Institute said in their recent report that the water crisis in the world would occur because of the growing number of population.
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Forests to fall for food and fuel
BBC - Demand for land to grow food, fuel crops and wood is set to outstrip supply, leading to the probable destruction of forests, a report warns.
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