Colorful Crosswalks May Be Safer Crosswalks (Cool Weird Awesome 767)
A new study finds colorful painted murals around, or in place of, traditional striped crosswalks may cause drivers to yield more around pedestrians and keep them safe.
The Dentist Who Put On A Vaudeville Show To Distract Patients (Cool Weird Awesome 212)
Dental history is, shall we say, complicated. Fortunately we have all sorts of ways to minimize pain today, but none may be as exciting as those used by Edgar "Painless" Parker, a dentist who would distract his patients by putting on a vaudeville show as he worked. Plus: V2P technology could help us keep cars and pedestrians from crashing into each other.