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The other morning, during an especially zippy bike ride to work, we wondered how fast we were going; surely a bicycle speedometer can’t be that expensive. This go us to thinking that perhaps it would be more interesting to gauge our morning commute using some other unit of measurement – cars overtaken, red lights ignored, [...]

The slow, painful death of the airline industry spells great things for rail networks everywhere (even the one just proposed in California). No better time, then, to follow the green transporters at TreeHugger on a tour of the latest innovations in high-speed trains. So throw away that frequent flyer card, and get a glimpse of [...]

As our collective dreams of financial frivolity are fueled over the weekend only to be dashed by Monday morning’s increasingly rude awakenings, so Listicles’ weekly financial column Big Money Mondays takes a closer look at our fantasies of luxury. In this first installment we look at the soon-to-be-extinct luxury car field. The dedicated car enthusiasts [...]