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This New Website Gives a Detailed Summary of How Your NYC Building Fits Into Your Neighborhood

2018-04-09T14:30:00-04:00

Localize is an incredibly detailed and polished mobile website that lets you enter in any New York City address, and get presented with dozens of bits of insightful data as to how your building fits within its neighborhood and surrounding areas. For example, entering the info for Midtown Manhattan supertall skyscraper 432 Park gives back info on noise, trucking and delivery routes, upcoming transit disruptions, nearby dog parks, city code violations and much, much more. It also lets you subscribe to updates so you can learn more info about your building and neighborhood as soon as it is available. Check it out!

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Comprehensive NYU Research Project to Study and Track 10,000 New Yorkers for 20 Years

2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00

The Human Project is a new research project starting this fall from neuroeconomic professor Paul Glimcher that will attempt to understand the future of big data and human decision making by tracking every aspect of 10,000 New York residents over the next 20 years.

Researchers will follow every aspect of their lives, virtually all the time, to try to answer fundamental questions about why we make the decisions we make and how they affect our lives. The hope is that in the vast streams of data — around 250 gigabytes of information on each subject every year, the equivalent of a computer hard drive — patterns will emerge that will help improve public health, education and decision making.

Check out the recent article in the New York Times for more details on The Human Project.

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Interactive Map Tracks How Even Slight Sea Level Rises Affect New York City Drastically

2016-06-03T09:36:31-04:00

Data science and visualization firm Landscape Metrics recently created this great interactive project called Advancing Waters which tracks the physical toll of sea level rise across New York City's five boroughs.

Previous sea level rise maps have shown the areas of cities that could be underwater in the future. However, our visualization goes one step further by providing information on what occupies those areas. Our project tracks the number of people, schools, transportation facilities, and waste treatment facilities that would be inundated by a sea level increase of up to 5 feet. Advancing Waters represents the beginning of a larger study examining sea level rise and coastal vulnerability.

Check out the interactive project to play with the map.

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Research Says Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels Put New York City at Risk

2016-03-12T05:30:41-05:00

Columbia University Research Climate Scientist Dr. Radley Horton explains how climate change and rising sea levels could put New York City at risk.

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Researchers From AMNH and Cornell Get Closer to Destroying Bedbugs Forever

2016-02-08T11:30:32-05:00

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History and Weill Cornell Medical Center are one step closer to killing of Bed Bugs, or at least one step closer to controlling them a little bit easier.

In an all-too-rare win for humanity, a team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and Weill Cornell Medicine have sequenced the bedbug genome. It is the first step, they say, in finding the chinks in the armor of these little, sneaky bloodsuckers, and insecticide-ing them into eternity. […] By sequencing bedbugs’ genome, however, scientists were able to discover a few unusual bedbug properties—ones that could point toward new and, Lord willing, devastatingly effective killing strategies. The first is the radical change in gene expression that occurs just after a bedbug has had a blood meal, or chowed down on your naked and vulnerable skin.

Check out the full article to read all about the new-found vulnerability.

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Inside the New York Transit Museum's New Gabrielle Shubert Research Center

2016-02-06T13:41:29-05:00

The New York Transit Museum is full of vintage NYC transit history porn, but it is also home to some of the best transit research data out there.

The New York Transit Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making accessible materials relating to the region's land based public transportation systems, past and present. As part of this commitment we are pleased to announce the opening of our newly outfitted, environmentally-controlled Gabrielle Shubert Research Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

You can access the Transit Museum’s world-renowned special collections and archives library through their online finding aid or by scheduling an appointment with a Transit Museum archivist.

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The New Yorker Takes Us Through NYU's Psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms) Cancer Anxiety Research

2015-06-17T12:22:13-04:00

In a recent New Yorker article titled Magic Mushrooms and the Healing Trip, a local cancer patient talks about his participation in an interesting NYU research study.

Eddie Marritz, a cinematographer and photographer in remission from small-cell carcinoma, was a participant in one of N.Y.U.'s Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety research studies. Marritz, and the researchers, take us through the experience.

Check out the full article for more on Marritz or the program.

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