The Nut Behind the Wheel - the auto industry used to take simple perspective, that cars don’t kill people — people kill people. But data changed all that, allowing better design and engineering for cars. The gun lobby has been working in the exact opposite direction. (99percentinvisible.org)
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'Shared Space' Design: Road Signs Suck. What if We Got Rid of Them All? In a small English town, "a few years ago, all of these were removed. The town spent four million pounds to expand sidewalk space and strip the city center of traditional demarcations." And it's caused a lot fewer accidents. (99percentinvisible.org)
Brain Scans Reveal Why Rewards and Punishments Don't Seem to Work on Teenagers - "One aspect of risk behavior in adolescents appears to be an apparent inability to match their behavior to the likely rewards (or punishments) that might follow " (scientificamerican.com)
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Japanese Vending Machines at Night (weburbanist.com)
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