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Earlier this week in a new experimental newsletter I’ve been helping Danny Crichton on, we briefly discussed transit pundit Jarrett Walker’s article in The Atlantic arguing against the view that ridesharing and microtransit...

Tesla’s Model 3 is making progress heading out to customers (though not as much as either Tesla or those on the waiting list would like) and as a result, we got a chance to spend some time in one of the new production...

"Winter is coming", and 'tis the season to spend more time in our humble abodes. But before we snuggle in, it might be time to clear the air. Ideally, our homes should be our sanctuaries, yet we often forget that the air...

The 2014 Toyota Highlander is now the third generation of Toyota's midsize SUVs. Toyota offers a four cylinder, V6 and hybrid powertrain for buyers to choose from. Although many of its competitors offer four-cylinder and...

This month's recommended reading list takes in a broad sweep of science, from the early modern period to what we can expect in the futureThe Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the MindSeth S HorowitzThe research psychologist...

Should we learn to stop worrying and love nuclear? This film makes the green case for the controversial energy sourceThe environmentalist case for nuclear power? For most progressives, it's like hearing "the liberal case...

Peter Forbes on a book showing how the City has already factored burning all available fossil fuels into share pricesHumankind cannot bear very much reality but climate change will not go away: 400 parts-per-million, Prince...

Terry Macalister on a shady story of the price of black goldThere is a constant stream of books aiming to lift the lid on an oil world of power and petro-dollars, but as with many drilling rigs, the well often turns out to...

Not even her lazy husband can stop the beguiling Rafea bringing solar power to the desertSolar Mamas (BBC4, Sunday), a small jewel in the Why Poverty? strand, traced the efforts of the Barefoot College in India to train impoverished...

By PD SmithPublished in 1988, just two years after the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl, Weart's Nuclear Fear remains a classic study of the way imagery has dominated the nuclear debate...

A review by Keith Farnish Among the sorrow and the wonder, there is a moment in All of The Above that takes a bewildering concept and clarifies it to the level of absurd simplicity...

An enjoyable assessment of our energy needs from an industry insiderForget Lehman Brothers and Greece. The oil-price spike of 2008 caused the crash and the surge in crude markets since the beginning of 2011 is bringing the...

New generation of pylons carrying UK power supply will have to be very good to match up to designs of the 1930sSkeletal giants, armoured knights of the National Grid, a regiment of electricity pylons has marched across our...

A story of a delightfully odd eco-battle in Devonshire"There is an energy crisis on the horizon," warned Mike Hulme, peering out across the bottle-green Devonshire countryside...

In Sophie Uliano’s latest book “Do It Gorgeously: How to Make Less Toxic, Less Expensive, and More Beautiful Products” she presents a bevy of projects on how your average glamorous woman can really spruce...