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Travel > Public Transportation Public transportation should be free: 5 of 26

One of the largest barriers to sustainability in Canada is the use of motor vehicles as a primary means to get around. It comes with the landscape: a large nation with cities scattered all across it. But is all that driving really necessary? In British Columbia, hundreds of people make the 45-minute journey twice daily along...
Arts & Humanities > History (Other) Do large buildings reflect an advanced society or powerful minority?: 2 of 6

When speaking of all large buildings, neither is universally true. However, I would assert that more large buildings reflect an advanced society. Historically, large buildings like the Pyramids of Giza and the Forbidden City of China have been exclusively for the benefit of the rich and powerful minority. In many cases the c...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Trends & Genres Strategy webgame reviews: 1 of 2

Earth 2025: As far as strategy webgames go, Earth 2025, found at http://www.swirve.com makes for a good center point. Each game resets after a two-month period, so catching the beginning of the game is critical to decent showing. As a player, you are allotted one turn every half-hour, and are allowed to have up to 80 turns f...
Personal Finance > Health Insurance How to reduce health care costs: 6 of 6

Insurance companies could do themselves and their policy holders a lot of good by trying to ensure health as well as insure it. These ideas apply equally to health insurance and life insurance, and are focused on ways to reduce the costs of funding insurance for the company while improving the policy purchasers health at the...
Computers & Technology > Internet Issues Utility computing: Wave of the future: 3 of 3

Utility computing, the science of using many computers to together to perform a task no single computer could perform in a reasonable time, has become increasingly important since desktop processors stopping growing in speed exponentially. In order to complete larger tasks, more computers rather than newer computers are now ...