Topic: france
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How You Cross the Street Largely Depends on Where You're From
French pedestrians take more "risks" at crosswalks than the Japanese, says a new study.
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Historic Maps of the Day: The Louisiana Purchase's 210th Birthday
Celebrating 820,000 square miles.
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Philippe Starck Designs a Bike-Share Scooter-Cycle in France
Is this the hippest bicycle in the world?
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Paris's Power Squatters
How a band of dedicated housing activists got the French government's attention (and participation).
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Postcard
Lyon Awash in Lights
Larger-than-life men and a glowing cathedral.
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How France Built Inequality Into Its Cities
Planners have created isolated urban enclaves that keep the country’s immigrant population separate.
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Videos
Magical Inanimate Object of the Day: The Lotus Dome
Lotus Dome almost seems to have a life of its own.
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A Glow-in-the-Dark Skate Park for Nocturnal Thrashing
Now French skaters can Ollie North any time of the day, thanks to the equivalent of a million fireflies' cumulative photon storm.
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Postcard
Charlie Chaplin Goes to the Beach
The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival is now underway.
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This Armored Wallpaper Can Stop People from Stealing Your Wi-Fi
Researchers in Grenoble, France, have developed a wallpaper that blocks wireless internet signals from leaking out of your home.
