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How Estonia blazed a trail in science A small nation found strength in research after joining the European Union. @nresearchnews Detailed data show the value of land under homes across the country Why it’s a problem that dirt in Brooklyn is so much more expensive than dirt in Arkansas. @andrewvandam New York and Moscow ranked…

The Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work We are cleaving into two nations—one where daily life revolves around the car, and the other where the car is receding in favor of walking, biking, and transit. Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skilled Workers Why are cities no longer lands of opportunity for middle-skilled…

Where the Streets Have MLK’s Name More than 1,000 roadways worldwide honor Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a reflection of his enduring impact across cultures. Highlights in Geography 2018 Looking back at the past year to inspire the future: Springer’s Editorial Team share a selection of the top downloaded books & articles in 2018, together…

The Geography of the Global Super-Rich The super-rich are concentrated in a small number of metros around the world. The #Ai 100 List 2018 Over the last month or two, the team at Us Ai, and the Ai Think Tank I chair, put their head together to bring you a list of the 100 people…

Why You Should Care About Quantum Neuroscience Quantum science promises giant leaps forward instead of the baby steps we have grown accustomed to through everyday science. ‘They Own the System’: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching Into Publishing The retail giant, the world’s largest public company, commands an unrivaled customer base for the books, e-books…

Cooking with numbers: lessons from a food Food for thought: access to nutrition is about more than counting calories. The Tech Education Con Big tech companies are spending millions to get young people into coding and STEM — not out of altruism, but to create a future supply of cheap labor. The Neuroscience of Creativity:…

Machine learning can offer new tools, fresh insights for the humanities From the French Revolution to the history of the novel, Big Data makes its mark. How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse The stories of abrupt climate change in the Middle East therefore echo over millennia to the present day.…

Tel Aviv Builds Itself A Mini-City, Opens Its Data To Urban Tech Startups A rendering of the Atidim Park, where Smart City startups will get access to real-time city data. How Etsy Sellers and Big Business Make Money on Public Domain Art Content in the public domain isn’t just legal to download for free. It’s…

The 20 Internet Giants That Rule the Web Today’s visualization, inspired by an earlier work published by WaPo, looks at which of the internet giants have evolved to stay on top, and which have faded into internet lore. The Real History of Intellectual Piracy The history of technology transfer in developed countries certainly provides ample examples…

Every Tree in the City, Mapped Researchers at Descartes Labs are using artificial intelligence to make a better map of the urban tree canopy. 10 extracts from a Roman ‘philosopher king’ to unlock your inner Stoic Marcus Aurelius was a second century Roman emperor, who ruled most of the known world. His writings on ‘stoicism’…