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Like the Downey film, Speed Racer is plenty satisfying in traditional action-movie terms. It boasts enough auto-erotic car-nage to make Grand Theft Auto IV seem, by comparison, like a junkyard jalopy. Beyond that, there's the edifying display of people taking control of their own destinies by...
But the real kick of these movies is the edifying spectacle of people taking control of their destinies by building beautiful, useful machines with which they're perfectly in synch. They could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists translating their...
Some of these lessons were applied last year in responding to the Virginia Tech school shooting and the Minneapolis bridge collapse. On May 5, the fund released a detailed blueprint of its methods; it will, unfortunately, prove useful again.
What about Americans who can't resist the call of a summer road trip? The website Ecomodder recently published a list of more than 100 tips for better mileage. Benjamin Jones, one of the site's co-founders, is a self-described "hypermiler," known for extreme gas-saving stunts like...
A series of studies recently featured in the Harvard Men’s Health Watch newsletter substantiates the claim that optimists are generally healthier than pessimists. The research—which includes long-term studies beginning in the 1960s, and more recent short-term studies—primarily focused on...