For three days each year, Dutch cities get renamed. For example, the city I live in changes from Oosterhout to Kaaiendonk! This is all done as part of the Burgundian Carnival tradition, but let’s take a deeper look. It all started in...

Kevin McNamee, Director, Threat Intelligence, Nokia and Nasrin Rezai, Global Chief Information and Product Security Officer, GE explore security failings in the Internet of Things and how companies can avoid them.

Municipalities around the world are increasingly cracking down on plastic pollution, especially single-use straws. According to the National Park Services, Americans use about 500 million straws a day which works out to 1.5 straws a...

Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...

5G is the next big step in connectivity and may prompt major changes on the factory floor, in the retail store and even in the boardroom. What are the clearest enterprise applications and how can CIOs best deploy this new technology?

Mr. Beat compares and contrasts Lawrence, Kansas and Ames, Iowa, both college towns located in the American Midwest. Mr. Beat is a bit familiar, you could say, with Lawrence. He has help with Ames with Xander from the channel ARTexplains.

The BBC reports that a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience argues that if the planet’s average temperature keeps rising, hurricanes and typhoons will start to move farther northward and southward, entering the world’s most...

This week we meet Pablo Helguera, an artist, museum educator, and writer, at the Indianapolis stop of his Spanish language bookstore Librería Donceles. His assignment challenges you to give old books new lives through combinatory play.

Akko and Haifa are the two holiest cities for the Baha'i Faith. The Baha'i Gardens, located on the slopes of Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel, have become a major tourist site in recent years. Baha'i pilgrims also travel there to pray and...

In this week's episode we learn about models that simulate how a majority of Americans can eat locally grown food, how robots learn, fun and educational video games for the classroom and, finally, we explore a future forest.

The Mines Park apartment complex may look like typical student housing but these apartments are pioneering new water treatment methods for a cleaner future. Wastewater from this complex isn't actually wasted. This is one of the pilot...

Lollapalooza is a popular music festival that has been running for 25 years. Learn about its origins and how it became a huge success.

Ricardo Salvador, director of the food and environment program for the Union of Concerned Scientists, discusses how a national food policy might address priorities such as health, climate change and agricultural sustainability with WSJ's...

NYU historian Professor Thomas Sugrue, addressing the Institute’s conference on race and economics, makes the case that in Detroit’s history scholars will find the story of many of America’s industrial cities.



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In 2005, I watched the British band Keane at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. After they finished playing a song, the lead singer, Tom Chaplin, said it was the band's first time in Kansas. Many members of the crowd immediately booed...

Deep learning and computer imaging are opening a range of applications for business and society - from facial and gesture recognition to medical image analysis and autonomous driving. What's the best use of this new technology?

Cross-border investor Olivia Wang discusses the next big trends in China tech at WSJ Tech Live in Laguna Beach.

In this episode we will have a general look at the Greek Archaic Age of discovery and colonisation.

Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He previously held faculty appointments at the University of the West Indies, his alma mater, and the London...

Architect Jeanne Gang, founding principal and partner of Studio Gang, discusses how the evolution of cities across the world has been accelerated by Covid-19 and why flexible buildings are critical for a sustainable future.

Teenage student explains how young people are taking action on Global Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

FT writers and editors Lindsay Fortado, Judith Evans, Daniel Thomas and Mark Vandevelde discuss how urbanisation, central bank policy and lack of housing supply have fuelled the boom

Leading his followers into war, then switching sides to fight the people he just helped win, leading one Crusade that accidentally destroyed Christian cities and another that did so intentionally, Pope Innocent III honestly did way more...

Countless towns, cities and civilisations have risen and fallen over the years, but in rare cases we get to see them preserved to some degree - sometimes entirely. Here's 10 Places Frozen in Time.