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We've driven from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Highway 1. We've encountered joggers, busy highways, toll booths, and this is without a person in the loop; the car just drives itself.
And to connect our country after World War II, we didn't build more two-lane highways, we built the interstate highway system.
And the first thing that makes me think is that blood vessels are like highways for the tumor cells.
And you think, the more highways there are in a tissue, the more likely it is to get cancer or to get metastases.
So let me call it the Shanghai model of economic growth, that emphasizes the following features for promoting economic development: infrastructures, airports, highways, bridges, things like that.
And so he partnered with highway associations around the country to build big, beautiful highways out to these parks.
And again, you can think of this as almost mapping our interstate highways, if you will.
And so from this we're able to identify these blue highways, these hot spots in the ocean, that should be real priority areas for ocean conservation.
Porous asphalt, a material that we use now in most of the highways in the Netherlands, it has pores and water can just rain through it, so all the rainwater will flow away to the sides, and you have a road that's easy to drive on, so no splash water anymore.
And while most cities were investing in more roads and more highways, they actually invested in bicycling and in walking.
We have a great intersection of highways, I mean, literally no traffic congestion in Oklahoma City to speak of.
If more money is invested in highways, of course there is less money for housing, for schools, for hospitals, and also there is a conflict for space.
In terms of transport infrastructure, what really makes a difference between advanced and backward cities is not highways or subways but quality sidewalks.
They could go for dozens of kilometers safely without any risk in wonderful greenways, sort of bicycle highways, and I would invite you to imagine the following: a city in which every other street would be a street only for pedestrians and bicycles.
By day, they hop freight trains, stick out their thumbs, and ride the highways with anyone from truckers to soccer moms.
So rivers are the highways of the jungle, and this is something we learned, and most of the recruiting was being done in and around the river villages.
Our nation's highways, airports and truck stops are literally used as modern-day slave routes.
When you drive around and you find dead tapirs along the highways and signs of tapirs wandering around in the middle of sugarcane plantations where they shouldn't be, and you talk to kids and they tell you that they know how tapir meat tastes because their families poach and eat them, it really breaks your heart.
Tapirs cross the highways after dark, so the stickers will hopefully help drivers see this shining thing crossing the highway, and maybe they will slow down a little bit.
Just think, if planted on the side of highways, they could light the way, using only oxygen and other freely available, clean resources to run.
In low Earth orbit, all sorts of structures, like bridges, highways and airports are visible, and the Great Wall is only barely discernible.
In this picture, the circles represent the Douglas fir, or the nodes, and the lines represent the interlinking fungal highways, or the links.
On structures like bridges and highways that are constantly in use, detecting these problems before they lead to catastrophe becomes a huge and costly challenge.
And when I discover them from far above, I like to find those main streets and highways that structure their space.
This kind of transformation is exactly like sprawl in the last century, the movement where our investment in highways and automobiles fundamentally changed American life.
And we got all the highways and strip malls and cul-de-sacs we wanted.
The Federal Highway Administration, for example, didn't exist before there were highways.
Induced demand applies both to highways and to city streets.
This applies both to highways and to city streets if they're congested.
As a matter of fact, since '08, they've voted in 400 billion dollars of bonds for transit and zero dollars for new highways.
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