AI can interpret a request, suggest a plan, and help recover from a mistake. This architecture puts explicit rules in charge of what happens next — checking evidence, controlling actions, and reassessing permission when circumstances change.
EV
Tyre wear is a problem for every car. Using it to justify petrol means keeping the exhaust too.
environment
"Think global, act local" works one decision at a time. But individually defensible decisions can still add up to an indefensible result. The maxim needs a third clause: think global, act local, reckon regional.
sheffield
South Yorkshire is planning faster Sheffield–Leeds trains. West Yorkshire is separately planning a new station for Leeds Bradford Airport. A discussion paper asks what happens if the two are joined.
traffic
How they form without anyone causing them, why going faster buys less than it seems, and two things worth changing on the next journey.
Acoustics
It seems like it should be simple enough: “the jets overhead are insufferable,” or “my neighbor is still partying at 11pm” are both perfectly reasonable things to complain about. But when it comes to actually getting something done about them — or whether there is even a basis to do so
Sonoma County funded a study of a quarter-million-gallon fuel farm at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport. Ten months on, the public record won't say what became of it.
law
A single FAA order can turn a quiet community into something resembling the sonic equivalent of an air force base — no local vote, no visible decision-maker, and often no warning beyond the noise itself. This piece addresses what that community — or any other in the same position — can do,
pollution
Titus Salt understood clean air. Bradford is still arguing about it. Bradford Council is reviewing its Clean Air Zone. Reform UK's Stephen Place, the council's new leader, wants the charging element gone — the fee levied on the most polluting vehicles entering the zone. Labour's
What I thought was a pretty December sky turned out to be something stranger Early on the morning of December 16th, 2022, something appeared in the sky above West Sonoma County that looked, with a little imagination, like Douglas Adams's whale materialising out of thin air above an
EV
Both sides of this argument are right, and both are missing the point It's a familiar exchange by now, playing out somewhere on social media most weeks. Someone posts that EVs should make noise, because silent cars are a hazard for blind pedestrians. Someone else replies that EVs
Sonoma County Airport
The Federal Aviation Administration has spent two and a half years telling West Sonoma County that returning to a wider, higher departure path out of Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport (STS) is not possible. For three weeks in July, without announcing it as such, the agency did exactly that.