Bike Share in New York, Built From Ideas Around World
When Citi Bike is introduced in New York next week, it will resemble a sort of cycling stew — a system that borrows pieces of similar programs in other cities.
At Ministry of Supply, Teamwork in Making High-Tech Apparel
Two groups of M.I.T. entrepreneurs were working on similar ideas for high-tech clothing. But instead of becoming rivals, they combined their efforts into a single, growing company.
Brittney Griner, Proudly Part of a Mission to Help Others Live in Truth
The W.N.B.A. player Brittney Griner writes, “Just as basketball doesn’t define who I am, neither does being gay.”
World's Best Restaurants 2013: the top 100 in full - Telegraph
Spanish restaurant El Celler de Can Roca has knocked Denmark’s celebrated Noma from the top spot in The World’s Best Restaurants Awards, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna. Here are the 100 top restaurants, with links to Telegraph reviews.
Forget the human genome project, meet Beer Mapper.
From Holland, Bright Ideas for Highways
Under a Dutch plan, “smart” roads would include glow-in-the-dark markings, interactive streetlights, battery-charging e-lanes and illuminated foul-weather warnings.
In a Corner of China, Boxing’s New Frontier
“That April 6 bout in China, the country that once banned boxing because it was too Western and too violent, featured a decorated Olympian from China in his professional debut, boosted gambling revenue at and drew high rollers to the Venetian Macau hotel and casino, and came with a favorable tax rate.
For all its success — the casino said it sold out the fight and estimated that 200 million to 300 million people watched on television — that event was in part a test run. Arum said Pacquiao would “definitely” stage his next bout, his first since Juan Manuel Marquez knocked him out in December, in either Singapore or Macau.”
The Ideal Subway Seating Arrangement? No Middle Seats
“The design is the result of a study conducted during the winter of 2011-2012, in which researchers rode the New York City subway system and recorded where passengers stood or sat, for how long and how close they got to their fellow passengers. The study was conducted outside of rush hour, the authors noted, because “riders in overcrowded cars have virtually no choice in seating.””
Fans Hope Barclays Center Will Revive Brooklyn Boxing
” Until very recently, a scene like this one — a Brooklyn boxer training at a Brooklyn gym for a big-time bout in Brooklyn — would have been impossible, but now that the Barclays Center, on Flatbush Avenue, is midway through its maiden season of organizing fights, local gyms in the borough are again alive with the thump and sweat of hometown fighters readying themselves for hometown crowds.”
