London's Marble Arch Mound was a fiasco in a city losing so many green spaces – but pop-up parks can work
Pop-up spaces can be successful, they just need to be better thought through and created with urban ecology in mind rather than economics.
Aug. 17, 2021 • ~8 min
Red kites and ravens swooped through Elizabethan London – and helped keep the city clean
Plague-wary Londoners tolerated mischievous red kites and ravens for their services to the city's sanitation.
Feb. 25, 2021 • ~6 min
Syphilitic city: One in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s, study suggests
250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had contracted syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated.
July 6, 2020 • ~8 min
Heathrow's third runway: how dogged persistence stopped London airport expansion
Persistence pays off – but unless campaigners put forward an alternative, the airports will always be able to fight back.
March 9, 2020 • ~6 min
Police platform patrols create ‘phantom effect’ that cuts crime in Tube stations
A major experiment introducing proactive policing to Underground platforms finds that short bursts of patrolling create a “phantom effect”: 97% of the resulting crime reduction was during periods when police weren’t actually present.
Jan. 16, 2020 • ~6 min
Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests
Children who regularly walk or cycle to school are less likely to be overweight or obese than those who travel by car or public transport, a new study suggests.
May 20, 2019 • ~4 min
Harvard unveils new technique 60 times faster than traditional fMRI
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, King’s College London, and other institutions have developed a technique for measuring brain activity that’s 60 times faster than traditional fMRI.
April 17, 2019 • ~8 min
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