Hopping on a well-padded mechanical bull at a bar is already terrifying enough for most people. Trying to survive eight seconds on the real thing at a rodeo is a whole other level of fear, but that still doesn’t come close to the terror of trying to stay in the saddle while the robot arm of a logging machine is trying…
Trees, schmees. This Volvo running in Sweden’s Snapphanerallyt doesn’t care.
Alternative headline: Tree takes a lightning strike and is somehow still standing? I don’t know who the actual winner is here. The lightning bolt that struck the tree and rocked half of the trunk away while flooring all of its branches or is it the tree that takes the bolt’s best shot and hangs in there quite…
Cities have been kicking out cars to curb pollution and boost the well-being of their residents. But Madrid has proposed something even smarter. It’s not only banning cars from its downtown, it’s adding more green space. This is an important part of the equation that many cities don’t get right.
Carbon fiber is one of the strongest and most resilient materials on the market, used in everything from car frames to body armor. It's also incredibly expensive to make. But one plant biologist says that in fifty years, we'll be growing it on trees.
When a freak storm blew a gigantic tree on this guy's Toyota 4Runner in the middle of nowhere, he didn't just sit around and wait for a tow. He drove the thing right into town.
An extremely unlucky driver happened to be in just the wrong place at just the wrong time to get a tree right on his hood. Oddly, he was less vocal about it than you might think.
If a tree falls on a deserted road in Russia and hits the only car on the road at the time, will anyone hear it? Yes, because that Russian will have a dash cam.
Matt Yglesias of Slate wrote Monday morning about a Washington Post article on how tree canopy's density in a neighborhood reflects income in Washington D.C. I think the discussion he sparks can be used comparatively with what's taking place in Detroit around the downtown and midtown districts.
What's the first thing that occurs to a man when he comes across a tree twenty feet in diameter? Does he experience a sense of awe at being in the presence of a gigantic, ancient living thing whose scale makes him question his own significance? Hell no! He hacks a great big hole through the trunk at ground level and…
