Urban Life
Riding the Elevator of Death | Prague’s Paternoster Lift
What are paternoster elevators? What happens when you go over the top? And can we build our own nonstop elevator? We take a ride on one of the last of these rare lifts in the Prague City Hall to learn more about engineering and design.
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Ep. 18 The Weird Chrysler Cars of the Early 1960’s
Why used car prices went absolutely insane last month.
You thought the price of wood was nuts? Just check out what’s going on at car dealerships. After cooling off a bit from a surge last year, the cost of used vehicles suddenly shot up 10 percent in April alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ official inflation report on Wednesday. The sudden acceleration was the largest one-month increase in the category since the government began tracking the Consumer Price Index in 1953.