Calling all speed demons, Sunday drivers, joy riders, text-and-drivers, and accidents waiting to happen—this section’s for you. Your Driving Record Speeding tickets, DUIs and other violations will push your rates up faster than the officer can say, “License and registration, please.” If ...
1. Sushi– I love sushi so much, I would eat it for breakfast. Anyone who knows me knows about my sushi addiction. I suspect breakfast sushi will happen a few times. To go to the place that invented my favorite food is just so exciting! 2. Tokyo’s Ginza District– This is one of...
A recent World Bank report found that it was about proximity and accessibility to services and goods; density enables all that stuff to happen. So it’s actually a way of driving—when that is accompanied by good design—healthy outcomes in terms of what cities provide. And the city is ...
t expected to be capable of going much faster than about 50 MPH or going much farther than about 50 miles does not need a huge, hugely heavy and hugely expensive energy storage device. And because it doesn’t have to lug one around, it does not need a large or especially powerful ...
Why does this happen? Easily the most famous explanation comes from Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School. Christensen’s 1997 book,The Innovator’s Dilemma, (US) (UK) told a compelling story about how new technologies creep up from below: they are flawed or under-developed at first,...
Why does soil degradation happen? What are some causes of soil degradation? How does soil degradation occur? Why does soil contamination happen? What are the causes of soil retrogression and degradation? How does land degradation affect the soil? How does soil degradation affect humans? How does...
All of these happen to be non-native plants in the US. Peaches, apples, oranges and peanuts wouldn't be grown in the US if we only focused on growing "native" crops. If I only grew natives in my backyard garden, I'd waste hundreds of dollars buying garlic, asparagus, tomatoes, ...
at my nomadic base in Bali, as a complement of beautiful island lifestyle, even bottled water poured into a cup and allowed to sit for a few days can collect mold, bugs, or waterborne bacteria that can ruin a week of travel – and the same can happen to a dilapidated...
She’s spent twenty years waiting for something to happen, and nothing does. Every time we meet her, she’s either on the point of bursting into tears or curling into a depressive sleep. She doesn’t get any joy from her palace, or her treasures, or even her son. She suffers. But ...
The same is true for Sony and the Memory Stick Walkman. As Sony expanded, it produced radios and televisions, video recorders and camcorders, computers, game consoles and even acquired a film and music empire. But to keep this sprawl manageable, Sony’s leaders divided it into silos. As G...