Prior to his dropout from the University of Colorado, Aurora theater-shooter James Holmes had been seeing a mental health specialist at the University. However, school specialists, trained mostly to treat academic anxiety, were ill equipped to address Holmes’s condition. New evidence indicates he may have also called his psychiatrist just minutes before he entered the [...]

Trying to stay cool? Syrians have been using these earthen houses for that exact purpose since 3,700 BC. Made from mud, straw, dirt, and stones, the beehive-like dwellings are lean, green, and super-cool to look at. Beehive houses, built throughout the rural farming communities of Syria’s hottest deserts, are also found in it’s largest urban [...]

This Friday, Los Angeles City Mayor Villaraigosa released the 2010 Bicycle Plan, the latest major milestone in putting the city’s Measure R funds to work. By designating over 1600 miles of bicycle lanes throughout Los Angeles, the plan is designed to promote biking as a sustainable means of transit. The new bicycle system, composed of [...]

While the title of the report Separate But Equal: A Winning Policy for Women in Transit remains problematic, the idea presented by its author emerges as uniquely relevant in two ways:   1) Women worldwide continually struggle to find safe, comfortable, and secure means of transit  for the global networks of transport on which our [...]