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New York’s Lowline Could Be A High Tech Underground Playpark

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2:30PM September 22, 2011 | Alex Kidman

An ambitious plan for one of New York’s abandoned underground train stations could see it transformed from dank pit of despair into a futuristic fibre-optic lit playpark. More »


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Researchers Create Computer Models of Staggering Drunks to Aid City Planning

1:45AM July 25, 2008 | John Mahoney

A team of Welsh scientists have spent long nights camped out in a busy nightlife neighbourhood of Cardiff from 11pm to 3am with one goal–studying the way Welshmen stagger when they’re shitfaced in order to build an accurate computer model of the phenomenon. They aim to use their data to help city planners design streets that are safer for late night revellers. Now this is some research I can get behind.

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