Brooklynite says residents should have free access to the City’s cultural institutions
August 30, 2024
With poverty on the rise in New York, it’s heartbreaking to me that many of us will be unable to experience all the culture and education.
Billy Geer: A baseball oddity who went through Brooklyn
August 2, 2024
Oddly enough, but for Clem Labine who has already appeared in these pages under my by-line, the Dodgers of the ‘40s and ‘50’s had zero ball players born in August. I turned to the Brooklyn teams that played in the early days of the sport. The Brooklyn teams, some of which were so bad one went 2 and 41! Scouring
Brooklynite says residents should have free access to the City’s cultural institutions
August 30, 2024
With poverty on the rise in New York, it’s heartbreaking to me that many of us will be unable to experience all the culture and education.
Billy Geer: A baseball oddity who went through Brooklyn
August 2, 2024
Oddly enough, but for Clem Labine who has already appeared in these pages under my by-line, the Dodgers of the ‘40s and ‘50’s had zero ball players born in August. I turned to the Brooklyn teams that played in the early days of the sport. The Brooklyn teams, some of which were so bad one went 2 and 41! Scouring
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U.S. has its first national strategy to reduce plastic pollution — here are 3 strong points and 1 big gap
August 16, 2024
Plastic waste is piling up at a daunting pace around the world. The World Bank estimates that every person on the planet generates an average of 1.6 pounds (0.74 kilograms) of plastic waste daily. To curb this flow, 175 nations are negotiating a binding international treaty on plastic pollution, with a completion target of late 2024. In July 2024, the Biden administration released
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Microplastics are everywhere, but are they harming us?
August 5, 2024
NEW YORK — Microplastics have been found in the ocean and the air, in our food and water. They have been found in a wide range of body tissues, including the heart, liver, kidneys and even testicles. But are they actually harming you? Evidence suggests they might, but it’s limited in scope. Some researchers are worried, but acknowledge there are
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Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode – no one expected you would revolutionize global commerce
August 2, 2024
The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong. More than 10 billion barcodes are scanned every day around the world. And newer types of barcode symbols, such as QR codes, have created even more
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How do 9 states get by with no income tax? A tax expert explains the trade-offs they choose
August 2, 2024
Right before I was born in the 1970s, my family moved to Texas from Nebraska. A big reason was because Texas was – and still is – considered a low-tax state, and my dad wanted to start his business there. Texas is also one of nine states that don’t have an income tax on the “earned income” of people working
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Sustainability and resilience: What do they mean, and how do they matter for policy?
August 2, 2024
“Sustainability” and “resilience” have become buzzwords in recent years, but many people don’t know what either term really means. As an economist who studies environmental issues, I believe an important first step to solving any problem is to define your terms clearly. Although laypeople often use them interchangeably, sustainability and resilience aren’t the same thing. In fact, resilience isn’t even a single
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What GoFundMe conceals: The campaigns that fail
August 2, 2024
Long before the advent of reality television, the popular game show “Queen for a Day” thrilled American audiences by giving women who told heartbreaking tales of financial struggles a chance at winning expensive items that could help solve their problems. Throughout its 1956-1964 run, each episode featured contestants describing a misfortune that had struck them or their families, such as
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NYC residents pay for and should receive free access to the City’s cultural park institutions
August 29, 2024
In a city as diverse and vibrant as New York, ensuring legislated equitable access to such experiences should be a priority.
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Verifying facts in the age of AI – librarians offer 5 strategies
August 1, 2024
The phenomenal growth in artificial intelligence tools has made it easy to create a story quickly, complicating a reader’s ability to determine if a news source or article is truthful or
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Robocars promise to improve traffic even when most of the cars around them are driven by people, study finds
August 1, 2024
Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety and energy consumption, my colleagues and I
Remembering Ed Roebuck of the Brooklyn Dodgers
July 15, 2024
Ever throw a ball or a stone up in the air and try to hit it with a stick on its way down? Difficult, no? Well, there was a kid
Karl Spooner of the Brooklyn Dodgers: A tale of darkness
June 25, 2024
Not every month has a Brooklyn Dodger hanging from the bottom tip of the moon. Such a month is June. Yet sometimes, even if it is one ball player, that
Does plunging attendance at bar meetings foreshadow eroding professional standards?
June 6, 2024
It’s an accepted truth throughout the legal community that critical requirements for those who practice law here in New York State comprise membership to and attendance at CLE-accredited meetings. Post-pandemic,