Category: Development
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China’s Industrial Revolution Now In Progress
If you thought China was advancing a century ago, China’s economy overtook the U.S. to become the world’s largest in 2014, according to the International Monetary Fund. To some extent that’s an unfair comparison because China has about quadruple the U.S. population, but still — the U.S. had the world’s largest economy for many decades […]
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We Have Too Many Laws, Thinks Henry A. Wise
It’s a busy week for me, so sadly I couldn’t write any commentary or pull-quotes from this article. Anyone care to do the honors in the comments? WE HAVE TOO MANY LAWS, THINKS HENRY A. WISE: U.S. District Attorney Believes That as More Offenders Are Being Punished There is an Awakening of the Public Conscience […]
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The Modern Sherlock Holmes Is A Scientific Man
That reminds me: the modern Sherlock Holmes is now streaming on Netflix. THE MODERN SHERLOCK HOLMES IS A SCIENTIFIC MAN: Swiss Professor Tells of Professional Criminals and the Means of Detecting Them in a Book That Has the Indorsement of M. Lepine, Head of the Paris Police. (PDF) From September 24, 1911
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New Identification System Ousts Rogues’ Gallery
This new system of identifying criminals looks at individual facial features. “The whole system of the ‘portrait parler’ is a process of elimination,” explained Capt. Faurot. “It is on that basis we are to reorganize the Rogues’ Gallery. We will be able to divide the number of portraits to be searched on a given case […]
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The Auto-Hater Gives His Opinion — And Acts
For maximum effect, imagine this in the voice of Andy Rooney. “There goes another of the infernal things!” snarled the man waiting for a car as he stamped his heels against the curb. “Notice that!” he growled, addressing nobody in particular. “See how those fenders are put on an automobile? They’re on an angle, so […]
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The Neglected Possibilities Of City Roofs
There have been a lot of articles about roof gardens in the New York Times over the last few years as the trend has finally caught on. But my favorite by far has to be a 2006 article about a Greenwich Village resident who built a whole front porch on his roof. Go check out […]
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Uncle Sam’s Patents Reach The Million Mark
The public radio program This American Life did a fantastic episode a few weeks ago about how the patent system is deeply flawed, at least where software patents are concerned. The episode aired almost exactly 100 years after the millionth patent was issued. You can read Patent #1,000,000 here. The first patent was issued in […]
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Activity Of Modern Woman A Racial Problem
Taking the evidence as it comes to him from records of daily experience which are written into the public documents of all countries, [Dr Schlapp] finds unmistakable evidence of deterioration in the human race. This does not mean that men and women to-day are not physically and mentally as well endowed as ever they were, […]
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Double-Decked Streets For Lower New York
I can think of a few double-decked roads in the city (such as under elevated portions of the FDR drive, and beneath elevated subway tracks in the outer boroughs) but nothing like what’s depicted in this drawing. It’s an interesting concept. Are there any major cities with double-decked sidewalks along the roads? DOUBLE-DECKED STREETS FOR […]
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