Opioids Worse Than Car Crashes

Both car crashes and opioid overdoses killed over 40,000 Americans in 2017 (40,231 from opioids and 43,036 from cars). (Note: Continue reading →

PNTP Fourth Anniversary – The Hits

Surprise! Today’s the 4th anniversary for PretendingNotToPanic.com, the blog. News for people who are eager and anxious about the future. Continue reading →

Parking Costs

Go ahead and make fun of “Park your car in Harvard Yard”, but finding places to park everyone’s car in Continue reading →

UK Coal Pollution Drops To 1891 Levels

The United Kingdom was built on cheap and readily accessible coal. Coal emissions continued to increase until about 1980. Now, Continue reading →

Autonomous Auto Kills Pedestrian

This is the inevitable milestone. An autonomous vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian. The car had a safety driver (Uber), Continue reading →

Data That Matters February 2018

Average wages rose from 0.3% to 2.9% but the bottom 83% are seeing slower growth than the top 17%. Humans Continue reading →

Winter Arctic Ice Reaches New Low

Arctic ice surpassed 2017’s record low by 110,000 square kilometers out of a typical 13,000,000 square kilometers. This enabled the Continue reading →

Staying Home Saves Energy

It sounds obvious, in retrospect. In the last hundred years, American transportation has changed from horses to cars to staying Continue reading →