As you walk city streets, frustrated at why those other pedestrians behave so frustratingly, be aware that scientists are trying to improve the situation, but are making progress only in slow steps. Dr Taku Fujiyama [pictured here, receiving an award], one of the modern masters in this endeavour, is a lecturer at University College London’s Secret […]
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Innovative traffic jam research in Nairobi
We seldom receive requests for research funding, which works out well because we have no funding to give. A letter arrived this week that is so compelling we present it here, with the hope that someone will help out: Subject: Research on ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF TRAFFIC JAMS IN KENYA Hi, I follow the Ig Nobel […]
Black hole under the river Thames
From New Scientist‘s Feedback column: CAMPAIGNING for another bridge or tunnel across the Thames river in London, blackwalltunnel.com presents meters showing the traffic flowing into and out of each portal of the existing Blackwall tunnel. Checking the site at 5 pm on a Friday, Feedback was concerned to see huge numbers of vehicles entering the […]