Weekly Filet #155: History's Most-Documented Manmade Disaster. And more.
The tragic irony is all in this one phrase, where The New York Times calls the war in Syria «probably history's most-documented manmade disaster». Three years into this tragedy, the paper's middle east correspondent recapitulates and assesses the status quo – it couldn't be worse.
→ Three Years of Strife and Cruelty Puts Syria in Free Fall (The New York Times)
This is the story of the awkward, tiny moving room that changed entire cities: the elevator.
→ How the elevator transformed America (The Boston Globe)
Every now and then, I stumble upon Jessica Hische's website – and each time I lose myself browsing her projects. Great stuff.
→ Side Projects (Jessica Hische)
My friends have good ideas: Thierry has stopped complaining for a month. A survivor's tale.
→ Shut The Fuck Up February (Medium)
As cities full of self-driving cars become a realistic scenario, fewer cars are needed. But how many? MIT did the maths for Singapore.
→ If Cars Really Could Drive Themselves, How Many Would We Need? (The Atlantic)