BBC AMERICA’s Top Gear Wins Guinness World Record
From TopGear.com: Top Gear has just been crowned the world’s most widely watched factual TV programme… in the world!
The 2013 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records has certified that Jezza, Hamster, and Captain Slow have been watched by audiences in 212 territories around the world from Ghana to Guatemala, Moldova to Myanmar.
As he accepted the Guinness World Records 2013 book on behalf of the show, Jeremy Clarkson said: “I am very proud to be involved in such a factual programme.”
Pembina Traffic on Flickr.
Stop signs cause more harm than good, some experts say
The red octagonal sign is among the most recognizable features of a car-centred society, but drivers have a complex relationship with the ubiquitous STOP sign, one rooted in human nature and behavioural psychology.
There is a growing movement, in fact, to do away with stop signs altogether.
“As a whole, signs are not particularly powerful determinants of behaviour,” said U.K. traffic consultant Ben Hamilton-Baillie. “I’ve never seen anyone light up a cigarette in a church, but I’ve also never seen a sign that says ‘no smoking.’ There’s a powerful, socially determined cue going on there.” (Photo: Darren Calabrese/National Post)
Untitled (night view of wet street with White Rose sign)
New York, 1957-58
From W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975
Bloor St. level crossing, train and traffic
Toronto
February 9, 1923
Photo: The Globe and Mail
From the City of Toronto Archives (Fonds 1266, Item 216)
Clark Avenue and Clark Avenue bridge, looking east from West 13th Street, obscured by industrial smoke, in Cleveland, Ohio, in July of 1973.
Photo: Frank J. Aleksandrowicz/NARA
(Source: The Atlantic)
The rich and famous just looooove the Cadillac Escalade — and so do thieves. The SUV is the most likely vehicle to be targeted by crooks, according to a new study by the Highway Loss Data Institute.
“6th Avenue”
Photo/Design: Jack Crossing
Time lapse of snowfall from Dec 5th to the 6th.
(Video via YouTube user “WebcamLondon”)
