high speed rail
The Chinese High-Speed Rail Line To Canada Is Probably Fictional
We know this because the Canadian government hasn't even heard of it.
This Is the Train That Never Stops
Building a train that doesn't ever stop could help prevent tragic accidents like the weekend's derailment—and shave hours off your total travel time.
London's New High-Speed Rail Line Is Going to Screw Over the Poor
Primrose Hill residents didn't want it near their homes, so it's been re-routed through the estates.
Here’s a Map of America's High Speed Rail System in the Year Two Thousand and Never
High speed rail remains but a depressing daydream in the U.S., but this map is cool.
The Eerie ICE 3 Explosions of the European Countryside
Here's a thing I became mildly obsessed with this weekend (thanks to the "new issue"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-Biomimicry-is-Inspiring-Human-Innovation-165592706.html of _Smithsonian_): "tunnel boom." Tunnel boom is a common...
Self-Driving Cars Are the Sad Future of Passenger Rail Travel in America
Google's Eric Schmidt is right, "self-driving cars should become the predominant mode of transportation in our lifetime." But they should not be called cars, they should be called trains. Or high-speed rail pods or something, if the word 'train' still...
Ones and Zeros: Computer Generated Nipples and the Molecular "Watson"
_Through the looking glass._ h3. ONE: "Dept. of things we don't know we need yet: the transparent battery":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/07/the-transparent-battery-is-now-a-reality-thanks-to-stanford-scientists.html (LA Times) h...
High-Speed Rail Is Locked in the Trunk of American Politics
*Inspired by this Scientific American post, "Despite the Stimulus, High-Speed Rail Still Rides the Slow Track in the U.S.":http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coming-to-america-high-speed-rail* Every morning on my bike ride to work I...