An anonymous reader quotes Wired:
When students return to school in New Albany, Ohio, in August, they’ll be carefully watched as they wander through red-brick buildings and across well-kept lawns — and not only by teachers. The school district, with five schools and 4,800 students, plans to test a system that would require each student to wear an electronic beacon to track…
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Man ‘with TV on his head’ leaves TVs on lawns
A man with a TV for a head has been caught on CCTV leaving old CRT TV’s outside people’s houses in Virginia. Homeowners in Henrico’s Hampshire neighbo… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/329696/man-with-tv-on-his-head-leaves-tvs-on-lawns…
Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CityLab: Berlin is finally getting a fuller taste of the car-free trend that’s taking hold in other European cities. This summer, the German capital has announced plans to pedestrianize some vital central streets starting in October. One experiment will ban cars from the main section of Friedrichstrasse, a long, store-filled thoroughfare that, before World…
To Nurture Nature, Neglect Your Lawn
Why poison the earth when you can have wildflowers at your feet and songbirds in your trees without even trying? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/opinion/nature-lawns-environment.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…