“The aftermath of a self-driving tragedy.”
safety
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Safety Town
Traffic gardens are miniature street systems through which children — and adults — can learn about road safety. Ilana Bean explores these small-scale utopias through the lens of her mother’s work in traffic safety and road design, and also writes about our relationships to transportation and our urban environment. For the most part, we don’t […]
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Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away
“When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.”
Posted inNonfiction
House of the Century
Daisy Alioto reconsiders the nature of architecture while researching window alarms.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Suprising History of the Ball Pit
Enjoy the ball pit! I’ll be over here not swimming in pee.
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At Risk, at Home and Abroad
As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
At Home on Carmine Street
Abigail Rasminsky thought she’d survived a robbery unscathed. Then she realized it was following her everywhere.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On Being Trans, Disabled and Using the Washroom: ‘I have a right to exist safely in public spaces.’
Christian McMahon so rightly reminds us that everyone has “a right to exist safely in public spaces.”