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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. Today it is familiar worldwide. Why aren’t they more famous?

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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. The visitation law could have many practical applications—from the design of new infrastructure to urban planning.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

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The library is never busy; it’s beautifully designed and has a variety of comfy seating,” added Ms. Get outside without leaving the airport Increasingly, airport designers are incorporating outdoor spaces that let travelers breathe a little fresh air while waiting to take off. Linda Norris, of Treadwell, N.Y., Norris, 68.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Studies conducted in other countries, such as China and Singapore, have arrived at similar results. Promoting mixed-use neighborhoods—areas that put work and residence in proximity—would allow more bicycling and walking. passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. Between 2007 and 2011, the city of Seville built an.