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Intellectual Reserve Inc. Oh, and it's 115 years old, too.
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The Big Fix
It's Not Just Overflow—Everyday Leaks From Sewer Systems Lead to Alarming Amounts of Sewage in Our Waterways
And you probably can't even smell it.
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Maps
Happy 200th Birthday to a Mapmaker Who Changed the World
John Snow mapped out cases of cholera during an infamous 1854 outbreak in London.
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Maps
Mapping the Growth of OpenStreetMap
Looking back over the history of the crowdsourced digital street map, a familiar pattern emerges.
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Providence Wins Mayors Challenge Prize for Early Childhood Project
The $9 million Bloomberg Philanthropies contest also awards innovations from Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia and Santa Monica.
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The Streetlight of the Future Will Do So Much More Than Light Your Street
It could also catch criminals, broadcast WiFi and... detect meth labs?
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Maps
Why It's Nearly Impossible to Make GPS Work for India
A "classic example of copy-pasting a first world solution in an emerging economy."
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Back When We Thought the Internet Was Like a City
Once we all built homepages on GeoCities, the "city" turned out to be a poor metaphor for the web.
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Finally, a Good Reason to Send Somebody a Photo of Your Genitals
The "STD Triage" app lets you email pictures of your "intimate problem" to a panel of dermatologists.
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Imagine a Digital Library in Every Bus or Train
Slow commute? No problem.
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Urban Wonk
What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car
Even the most ubiquitous technologies eventually disappear.
