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A Playground Built to Keep Sex Offenders at Bay 27 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
Daytona Beach, Florida, is exceedingly clear about where registered sex offenders may not live: anywhere within 2,500 feet of a playground, a park, a child care facility, or a school. Ordinances like...
Birthplace of the World's Shortest War 27 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
Stone Town, Zanzibar (part of Tanzania), designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, hosts an impressive mix of architectural styles. Much of its building stock dates back to the 19th century,...
One Simple Tip That Could Save a Cyclist's Life 27 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
The other day when I came out of my house in Brooklyn, an ambulance was just pulling up to the curb around the corner from me. A crowd of people had gathered on the sidewalk, and the story quickly sta...
Why the Yosemite Fire Is Especially Scary 27 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
No one knows what started the Rim Fire, the 160,000 acre blaze that's ripping through the western side of Yosemite National Park. But nearly 4,000 firefighters have been dispatched to try to stop it u...
Asia's Mega-Mall Boom Is Headed Toward Bust 27 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
MORE FROM QUARTZ: While News Outlets Fixate on the U.S. Shale Boom, Oil Troubles Loom in these Eight Countries and Beyond German Executives Are Feeling Better and Better. And They’re Not Alone. For...
The New Geography of Jobs: Smart Policies Are Good, but Oil Is Better 27 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
If you want to understand how to create jobs — not just a few at a time, but hundreds of thousands at once — look to Texas and North Dakota. Together, these two states account for a little more than ...
The Amazon Model: The Rise of Urban Start-Ups in Smaller Tech Hubs 27 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Amazon likes to be seen as unique among this nation's high-tech giants. In contrast to nearby Microsoft as well as Facebook, Google, and Apple in Silicon Valley, it has long preferred to locate its he...
The Suburbs Are Dead, Long Live the Suburbs 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Regular readers of The Atlantic Cities will be familiar with most of the social trends that Leigh Gallagher of Fortune magazine tracks to produce the title argument of her new book, The End of the Sub...
The Unlikeliest Heroes in the Battle Against Climate-Change? Dung Beetles 27 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
In this edition of Toilet Tuesday, take a journey out into nature's vast bathroom: The world's climatologists should put down their thermometers and take a minute to thank Atte Penttilä for absorbing...
A New Magazine Takes on Old Rust Belt Stereotypes 27 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
"Rust Belt Chic" is a movement. That’s according to a new online magazine out of Cleveland, Belt, that aims to address the highly specific and often superficial attention paid to a wide swath of deind...
