In the modern world, access to the internet is not only necessary, but crucial for Americans to be able to do their jobs, go to school, access health care, and stay connected with family and friends. But the cost of that internet can often be out of reach for Arizona families. Over the past two …
The flatlands of Oakland is where the city’s digital divide is most pronounced. From West Oakland all the way into deep East Oakland, areas with the highest concentration of low-income residents, an estimated 37,000 households do not have high-quality access to the internet. While nearby Silicon Valley money has made the price of real estate …
The man made flood that miraculously saved our heroes at the end of O Brother Where Art Thou were an actual occurrence in the 19th and 20th century — and a fairly common one at that — as river valleys across the American West were dammed up and drowned out at the altar of economic …
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Ben Goldfarb Author of Crossings When alien archaeologists exhume the rubble of human civilization, they may conclude that our raison d’être was building roads. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the Earth, from the continent-spanning Pan-American Highway to the hundred thousand miles of illegal logging routes that filigree the Amazon. Our planet is burdened …
Sick of potholes? Thanks to climate change and heavy trucks, we’ll likely see more of them in future Potholes and other pavement failures are on the rise (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Copyright 2014 AP. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. What do the public paved roads in your …
A New Zealand-based company has developed highly detailed 3D maps of underground utilities. The mapping project, completed in Wellington, involved creating a map of the city’s subsurface infrastructure to aid in the Let’s Get Wellington Moving infrastructure project. The goal of Let’s Get Wellington Moving is to enhance transportation in the capital through investments in …