Author: Marcus Trimble

Harvard Economics Professor E.L. Glaeser on why living in skyscrapers makes environmental sense. NYT

Wired maps the 2 million flights that pass over New York city every year and looks at initiatives to redesign the management of the airspace to reduce delays. ‘The system is extremely safe—no commercial flight has been in a midair collision over the US in 22 years—but, because the Federal Aviation Administration treats each plane…

Jonathon Glancey visits RIBA’s recreation of Le Corbusier’s cabanon.  Guardian

Wolfram|Alpha is a new project from the makers of Mathematica set to launch in May. Something like a search engine, but instead of searching for answers to queries it computes them. In a related post, Nova Spivack writes; “Wolfram’s team manually entered, and in some cases automatically pulled in, masses of raw factual data about…

“Imagining the universe as seen by a building used to track orbital debris” by Leah Beeferman and The Eglin FPS-85 radar building that the work is based on.