As much as university and college shutdowns affect schools and students, they can also have a devastating impact on local towns and cities.
Where the Pork Supply Chain Is Broken
When we lose close to 40 percent of our pork processing capacity, the pork supply chain breaks in a direction that you might not expect.
The Problem With Predictable Surprises
Economists can explain and improve our inadequate disaster preparation for predictable wildfires, diseases, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
How Garlic Relates to Coronavirus
While we’ve heard the coronavirus impact on two cruise ships and on Apple’s projected revenue, its impact on garlic is less well known.
Where a Traffic Light Could Cut Noise Pollution
To diminish the city’s noise pollution, Mumbai is experimenting with traffic lights that last longer when drivers honk too much.
The Best Way To Stop a Speeder
Typically involving a fine that could even relate to your affluence, a speeding ticket is usually about money but not necessarily in Estonia.
When To Ignore Your Email
Tempted by thousands of hours of digital distractions, at home and at work, we diminish our creativity, our productivity, and our self-satisfaction.
The Connection Between Traffic Jams and Jobs
As the downside of low unemployment, traffic congestion can have an invisible cost that relates to time, gas, and aggravation.
When Cars Have To Decide Whether to Kill Grandma
Like people, autonomous vehicles will have moral dilemmas that require ethical decision-making but it could be tough deciding what is ethical.
Why Mapping Apps Create the Prisoner’s Dilemma
The success of a decision to use Waze, Google Maps, and other mapping apps to avoid traffic can depend on outsmarting the prisoner’s dilemma.
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