What City Observatory did for the past two weeks Alert followers will know the City Observatory has been preoccupied for the past two weeks; we’re filling in with a “Two-Weeks Observed” edition this week, and will be back to normal…
Some commonly used “rules of thumb” produce very bad results We all know and use rules of thumb. They’re handy for simplifying otherwise difficult problems and quickly making reasonably prudent decisions. We know that we should measure twice and cut…
Speed doesn’t seem to be at all correlated to how happy we our with our local transportation systems. If there’s one big complaint people seem to have about the transportation system its that they can’t get from place to place…
Today is famously “Cyber-Monday,” the day on which the nation’s consumers take to their web-browsers and started clicking for holiday shopping in earnest. Last year, its is estimated that online shoppers orders more than $3 billion worth of merchandise on…
Editors Note: We’re offering an abbreviated Thanksgiving Week version of the Week Observed. Our regular features–must read, new knowledge, and in the news–will return next Friday. What City Observatory did this week 1. The long tail of the housing bust.…