For the past few years, new-car prices have obviously been climbing, so it’s nice to learn that there are some traditional Memorial Day deals out there this year. With the pandemic fading away and the related supply-chain problems sorting themselves out, we’re back to perks like low financing offers and factory discounts. The best deals …
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While visiting Great Falls, Montana, a few years ago, I asked a local about nice spots to camp. He looked at the Jeep I was driving and said, “You’ll need a rooftop tent.” In response to the look of perplexion on my face, he continued: “Bears. You don’t want to be at snack height.” I …
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User-friendly artificial-intelligence tools like ChatGPT are new enough that professors aren’t yet sure how they will shape teaching and learning. That uncertainty holds doubly true for how the technology could affect students with disabilities. On the one hand, these tools can function like personal assistants: Ask ChatGPT to create a study schedule, simplify a complex …
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The original Volkswagen Type 2 Microbus is a cultural icon, and that’s helped fuel interest in the modern interpretation, which was finally revealed to the world back in March 2022. Called the ID.Buzz, the fully electric van is already on sale in other markets, but the version that’s coming to the U.S. has yet to …
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The Meyers Manx is the OG fiberglass dune buggy and inspired legions of copycats and competitors. This well-presented example is based on a shortened ’55 Volkswagen chassis. The Bring a Trailer auction runs through May 30. Car and Driver If there were an official car of the Endless Summer, it would be the Meyers Manx …
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The surprise announcement late Thursday that Ford will offer present and future owners of its electric vehicles access to more than 12,000 stations in the Tesla Supercharger network came as a shock to most of the auto industry. Tesla has notoriously gone its own way, and the unpredictable and increasingly political behavior of its CEO …
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Happy Friday and happy long weekend! Whether you’re staying put or heading out of town, here are a few architecture- and urbanism-related stories for you to peruse while you do you. From a proposal by Jay-Z to bring a Caesars Palace to Times Square to the latest on the search for a new Architect of …
Jeremi Suri is well positioned to comment on efforts in Texas, Florida, and other states to curb universities’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and, in some cases, to reform or eliminate tenure. He’s written about the historical underpinnings of today’s diversity-oriented discord, and as a professor in the history department and public-affairs schools at the …
This content is imported from youTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. NBC is launching a prime-time TV show in which teams compete to build the best full-size Hot Wheels–style car, with the winner destined to …
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The drive on I-35 from Austin to San Antonio unfolds like a master class on suburban sprawl. Over the last couple decades, the two Texas cities, separated by some 80 miles, have grown to be nearly contiguous. Where before rolling farm fields and wooded river bottoms were but punctuated by the intervening towns—Buda, Kyle, San …
Birdsong Brackenridge spins an ecological message where it’s needed most Read More »
