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"MOSCOW -- It may not be the most appealing kind of activism. But it certainly makes for interesting, and often viral, YouTube footage.
During Friday rush-hour, Artyom Leonov, 20, and a group of activists, travel to a heaving, traffic-clogged highway in northern Moscow where they lie in wait for hours with video cameras. Their quarry: cars illegally driving on the hard-shoulder.
"It’s a sight that leaves many people uneasy. A child, unharnessed in the back of a moving vehicle peeking from its sunroof. But despite increased media awareness and official calls for improved child safety in cars, it’s a sight that is all too common in Dubai.
The UAE’s rapid expansion and planned diversification away from oil has seen the likes of Dubai catapult to many of the world’s top ten lists, but compared to the Western world, it is still playing catch up when it comes to safety on the roads.
If you had to choose a new city to move to what would be your quality of life concerns? Would commuting by bicycle be an attraction to a new destination/? If so, and you're one who cares about biking safely where you live, here a few statitics that might help in making a big move...
"Bloomberg News has assembled data from the US Census about the number of people who bike to work and where they are located. The top 25 US cities for bicycle commuting are shown in the graphic above. The top 5 on the list are:
The Germans have so many wonderful phrases, but a favorite of mine is “Fremdschämen,” meaning external shame. Basically, it’s what you feel when you’re embarrassed on someone’s behalf because of something stupid they did.
It seems a week doesn’t go by these days without a report of a major hack, whether it’s a giant retailer like Target losing credit card information for 40 million customers, or the recent hack of Anthem insurance that exposed the health data of 80 million customers.
"In 2005, the U.K. Department of Transportation unveiled a set of guidelines for what it called “psychological traffic calming,” a strategy to make the country’s roadways safer by giving them a surface-level makeover.