Oil On The Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip To Your Tank is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry — the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.

Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from?

Author Lisa Margonelli’s desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away.

In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle.

In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit.

Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers. Rave reviews for Oil On The Brain include:

“If you drive a car, you must read this book.” —Mary Roach, author of Stiff

“By giving voice to the people who are the links in the global oil chain, Margonelli invites us to leapfrog all the rhetoric, dry statistics, and dire pronouncements about oil in order to truly understand it.” —Fast Company

“Hugely enjoyable, compulsively readable, and brilliantly reported.” —Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do with My Life?

The PBS Newshour conducted an extensive interview with the author, which can be found here.

Transport Geographies: Mobilities, Flows And Spaces brings together a formidable range of expert insight to introduce the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geography.

Using an issues-based, qualitative approach, the contributors feature a wide range of case-study material.

This work explores the relationship between transport geography and wider geographical concerns, as well as connections to other areas of study -- economics, engineering, environmental studies, political science, psychology, spatial planning, sociology and transport studies.

The book highlights the role of transport geography in globalization, and its interplay with economic, social and environmental geographies at a range of spatial scales. It reviews contemporary policy and the role transport geographers can play in policy debates.

Both empirically informed and theoretically robust, this compelling text shows the significance of transport in terms of the needs and demands of future travel.

Growing south from the plaza where the city of Los Angeles was founded as a tiny pueblo in 1781, the area now known as downtown L.A. was first developed in the late 1800s as a residential neighborhood, complete with churches and schools.

As the population surged at the turn of the 20th century, the downtown area was transformed into a busy business and entertainment center of shops, banks, hotels, and theaters.

The explosion of the postcard craze in the early 1900s coincided with this period of downtown's tremendous growth toward a formidable metropolis.

Early Downtown Los Angeles is a collection of vintage postcard images offers a glimpse into the changing city through the 1940s. Transportation is afforded its own chapter.

It includes rarely seen images of La Grande Station, the passenger terminal constructed by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1893. Santa Fe and Southern Pacific's competitive rail pricing fueled the real estate boom and unprecedented population growth throughout the region in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Early interior images of Union Station, Angels Flight, and other rail lines are of particular topical interest.

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The following is a guest post about how to find motivation in your day during uncertainty from regular contributor, Kristin at The Gold Project.  Sometimes, life throws you a curve ball. Last month, I had all intention of sharing another budgeting post. The information was already flowing through my head too. I was excited about […]

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Independent analysis of software rates technology providers across seven product and customer assurance evaluation categories

Partnership Agreement between "Baladna" and "Widam" To Supply the local Market with Veal Meat for the First Time

Kator redesigned the traditional model of micro-finance to work for Nigerian entrepreneurs

Real Estate And Foreclosure Defense Attorney Roy Oppenheim Will Hold Court On Financial Survival Strategies For Businesses And Individuals During The COVID-19 Crisis in his upcoming webinar Tuesday, March 24th at noon.

Live Online Interactive Stock Analysis Training Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT)

We finally get a look at the back of the Xbox Series X - for real, this time - and discuss why someone might be in biiiiiiig trouble. Plus: a new rumor about a sort-of remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has us hyped - but also wondering who would be given the assignment.

It may still be winter but Xbox Series X talk is heating up! We discuss the "old thing" Microsoft's new studio, The Initiative, might be working on. Plus: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a hit, EA talks up the Xbox Series X, the mystery port on the back of the Series X might not be for diagnostics, and more!

Biostatisticians use statistical techniques that your current everyday data scientists have probably never heard of. This is a great example where lack of domain knowledge exposes you as someone that does not know what they are doing and are merely hopping on a trend.

Check out this repository of more than 100 freely-accessible NLP notebooks, curated from around the internet, and ready to launch in Colab with a single click.

Marketing scientist Kevin Gray asks Dr. Anna Farzindar of the University of Southern California about chatbots and the ways they are used.

The hit in mid-March was sudden and dramatic, but there appear to be signs, including from media buyers, that the worst is over.

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For many sophisticated marketing technology platforms, it is nearly impossible to be a technology-only company.

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LONDON (Reuters) - A trial of Britain's proposed coronavirus test-and-trace app being conducted on the Isle of Wight off the coast of southern England is going well, Transort Secretary Grant Shapps said on Saturday. "The trial in the Isle of Wight of that tracking app, the NHSX app designed to help assist people, is going well

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's deputy chief medical officer said on Saturday he was confident the coronavirus "R" number, a measure of the rate of contagion, was below 1 across the United Kingdom. "I am confident that our R is less than 1 overall," Jonathan Van-Tam said at the government's daily news briefing

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PARIS (Reuters) - The number of people who have died from coronavirus infections in France rose by 80 to 26,310 on Saturday, the health ministry said, a much smaller daily increase than the previous day when it was 243. The ministry said the number of people in intensive care units - a key measure of a health system's ability to deal with the epidemic - fell by 56, or about 2%, to 2,812. That is less than half the peak of 7,148 seen on April 8

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Michael Watkins, chairman of Genesis Advisers and author of "Shaping the Game." Also: Fred Reichheld, fellow at Bain & Company.

David Champion, HBR senior editor, discusses the July-August 2006 issue of the magazine.

Pankaj Ghemawat, Harvard Business School professor.

David Lax and James Sebenius, authors of "3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals."

John Landry, HBR book reviewer.

Steve Bishop, global lead of sustainability at IDEO.

Mark Gordon, founding partner of Vantage Partners and coauthor of "The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes Is Not Enough."

Diane Coutu, HBR senior editor and coauthor of the article "How to Protect Your Job in a Recession."

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, founders of Strategic Horizons LLP and authors of "Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want."

Anna Bernasek, financial journalist and author of "The Economics of Integrity."

Daniel Pink, author of "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us."

Ricky Gervais, creator of the hit television series "The Office."

Henry Nothhaft, serial entrepreneur and author of "Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership."

Stefano Puntoni, professor at the Rotterdam School of Management and author of the HBR article "The Color Pink Is Bad for Fighting Breast Cancer."

Cathy Davidson, Duke University professor and author of "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn."

John Coleman, coauthor of "Passion and Purpose," with contributors Patrick Chun, Umaimah Mendhro, and Rye Barcott.

Dan Pallotta, president of Advertising for Humanity and author of "Uncharitable."

Chris Zook, partner at Bain & Company and co-head of the firm's global strategy practice.

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of the consultancy 20-first and author of "How Women Mean Business."

Michael Silverstein, cofounder of The Boston Consulting Group's global consumer practice and coauthor of "The $10 Trillion Prize."

Heidi Grant Halvorson and E. Tory Higgins, authors of "Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World to Power Success and Influence."

Michael Raynor, director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of the HBR article "Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great."

The Dilbert creator talks with HBR senior editor Dan McGinn.

Gianpiero Petriglieri, professor at INSEAD, on the new global elite.

Linda Hill, Harvard Business School professor, and Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at Egon Zehnder, on the talent strategies that set up a company for long-term success.

Jeff Weiss, author of the "HBR Guide to Negotiating" and partner at Vantage Partners, explains how to prepare to be persuasive.