It started with this article on NY Times, titled “Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars”. The writer talked about John Tauranac’s latest design for the NYC subway map. Mr. Tauranac, the article reported, used to work for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and chaired the committee that gave birth to the 1979 [...]

Malcolm Gladwell, writer of The Tipping Point and Blink, wrote an article on “the bad idea behind our failed health-care system”, titled The Moral-Hazard Myth in the latest New Yorker.
Mr. Gladwell talks of how (incredibly) inefficient our health system is, especially when compared to other countries - we “spend $5,267 per capita on [...]