Cities and Transport
The built environment and movement: urban planning, housing, buildings, infrastructure, aviation, and travel.
#2842: Fixing Your New Apartment: The Israeli Tool Kit
The eight essential tools and hardware every Israeli apartment needs — with Hebrew names and where to buy them.
#2840: How Long Must a Password Actually Be?
The surprising math behind how long your password needs to be to survive a brute-force attack.
#2838: Can Random Citizens Fix Broken Democracies?
What if the best way to fix democracy isn't voting, but picking lawmakers by lottery? Real experiments from Ireland to Belgium.
#2837: Israel's Rental Trap: Why "Just Buy" No Longer Works
How did Israel build a rental market where tenants have almost no rights and buying costs 15x your salary?
#2816: Do You Need a Window to Be Happy?
Natural light isn't just nice — your brain has a dedicated biological pathway for it. Here's what happens when you take that away.
#2804: Who Actually Runs Your City?
Master plans, zoning codes, and the people who shape where you live.
#2799: Where Should Your Images Actually Live?
WordPress to static sites: where do images & videos go? Repo, object storage, or CDN — and when to move up the chain.
#2793: The 100-Meter Gradient: How Your Street Changes Your Health
Air quality and noise can shift 5-8x within a single city block. Here's how to find your enclave.
#2792: How to Vet a Rental Like an Intelligence Operation
Thermal cameras, decoy applicants, and the marble test — the full field manual for apartment hunting.
#2786: The Hidden Engineering of AI Data Centers
How data centers retrofit for GPUs, from liquid cooling to immersion tanks. The physics behind 100kW racks.
#2782: Are AI Data Centers Really New or Just Patched Together?
The real bottleneck isn't GPUs — it's power transformers. A look at the physics and economics of AI infrastructure.
#2781: When Voice AI Features Enable Fraud
Voice AI platforms now let you simulate background noise, hesitation, and natural conversation — and that's a problem.
#2776: Where Does Your Vercel Site Actually Live?
Your Vercel site lives everywhere and nowhere. Here's what's actually happening under the hood.
#2759: Why Your Smart Home Can't Mimic a Hotel
Can Zigbee and Matter handle a two-story house with outdoor devices? We break down mesh hops, latency, and real-world limits.
#2757: Can Cities Engineer Calm?
How much green space per person do cities actually need? The WHO says 9 sq meters minimum. Most cities don't meet it.
#2751: Moving Like a Pro: Tips from Roadies and Diplomats
What touring roadies and Foreign Service officers can teach you about packing up your home network and toddler's toys.
#2748: What Cities Look Like Without Cars
How Barcelona, Paris, and others are redesigning streets for people instead of vehicles — and what we can learn from them.
#2746: How Zoning Built the Suburbs We Hate
Why walkability advocates loathe suburbs, from Ponzi scheme infrastructure to deadly stroads.
#2745: What Do Urban Planners Actually Do?
The invisible skeleton of cities, from sewers to zoning fights. What breaks if you let cities grow organically?
#2744: What Walkability Actually Means in Urban Planning
The five D’s of walkability — density, diversity, design, destination accessibility, and distance to transit — explained.