Daylight Saving Time: What the Evidence Shows
What studies show about sleep loss, heart attacks, road crashes and errors after the clocks change, why countries disagree, and the fight over permanent time.
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Sinkholes: What the Evidence Shows
In South Korea, damaged sewer pipes caused 46% of ground collapses between 2019 and 2023. What research shows about natural and urban sinkholes, who pays, and what detection can do.
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Escalator Injuries: What the Evidence Shows
Escalator stories are about trapped feet, but most escalator injuries are falls, and most of the injured are older adults. What the evidence shows.
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Turbulence Injuries: What the Evidence Shows
Turbulence causes more than a third of US airline accidents, and most serious injuries fall on flight attendants. Of 26 seriously injured passengers, one wore a seat belt.
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Railway Level Crossing Deaths: What the Evidence Shows
US level crossing collisions fell by more than three-quarters between 1981 and 2010, then stopped falling. Gates and lights explain about a fifth of the decline. Who dies at crossings, which kinds are safest, and why the safest kind is not always chosen.
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Fear of Flying After Terror Attacks: What the Road Deaths Show
After 9/11 Americans drove instead of flying, and more died on the roads. The famous estimate is 1,500; published figures run from about 350 to 2,300. What the dread-risk research found, and why the second strike depends on the alternatives at hand.
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What a bridge rated ‘poor’ is actually telling you
File photo: a raised bascule bridge on 12th Street in Chicago, in an early-1900s photograph. Photo: Detroit Publishing Company, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · September 2026 In early September 2026 the DuSable Lake Shore Drive bridge in Chicago stuck in the raised position for over four hours because heat caused thermal…
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The Median Forfeiture Is $1,678. A Lawyer to Contest It Costs About Twice That.
In This Series: Personal Finance & Investing Why Most Stock Investors Lose Money: What the Evidence Actually Shows Options and Futures: Where Retail Money Actually Goes Two Retirees, the Same Returns, Only One Runs Out. The Difference Is the Order. Deposit Insurance Stops at $250,000. Since 2008, Uninsured Depositors Have Actually Lost Money in Six…
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Sixty-Four Per Cent of Seriously Injured British Bus Passengers Were Never in a Crash. And the Bus Is Still About Four Times Safer Than the Car.
In This Series: Road, Transit & Child Safety Nobody Skips the Car Seat. The Deaths Are in the Exceptions. Half of the People Who Die in Crashes Were Not Wearing a Belt Three Quarters of Pedestrian Deaths Happen After Dark. Your Reflective Vest Is in the Wrong Place. A Child Physically Cannot See a Car…
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Twelve Inches of Water Carries Away a Car. More Than Half of Flood Deaths Are People Who Drove Into It.
Six inches knocks an adult down and twelve carries away most cars — and over half of flood drownings are drivers. Meanwhile the official maps miss about six million American properties.
