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From Salford to Shanghai: Cities taking control of housing

A major new international study led by The University of Manchester has revealed how policymakers around the world are becoming far more active in constructing affordable housing. Drawing on evidence from cities including Salford, Shanghai, Nairobi and Paris, the research shows

The Brennan Self-Balancing Monorail

This is so cool: in the early 1900s, a mechanical engineer named Louis Brennan invented a self-balancing train that ran on a single track . This video demonstrates how the train worked using a clever system of gyroscopes. This is the Brennan Monorail, a train from the early