How Road Crashes Became Asia’s Latest Public Health Crisis

In a country once marked by genocide, even the battle-hardened police were aghast at last month’s scene of carnage and mayhem. Outside the southern beach town of Sihanoukville on March 4, a speeding truck driver slipped off a slope and smashed head-on into a minivan crammed with 25 wedding revelers

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Robot chalks tweets on Tour de France route

Cycling at the Tour de France has taken a techie turn. Not only is Lance Armstrong posting to Twitter from the race, but a Chalkbot — a robot that writes in water-soluble paint — is scribing messages onto the road, offering inspiration to the competitors and to cancer survivors. The Chalkbot takes input from text messages and Twitter posts sent by the public

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