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When Scott and Nicole Delmoro renovated their 1939 Park Hill Tudor a decade ago to add 1,300 square feet, they planned to stay in the home forever. But when Phillips 66 purchased Scott Delmoro’s employer DCP Midstream this year, he was promoted to interim chief financial officer and transferred to Houston. So the family listed the 6,281-square-foot house on the 6400 block of East 17th Avenue Parkway for $3.8 million. “We love the house,” Delmoro said. “We never thought we’d leave it but we need to relocate.” The Delmoros…

Human Swarm experiment: (a) Groups of 10 to 20 participants were asked to walk around a large hall, turning left and right while staying together as a group. Their head positions were recorded with 16 motion-capture cameras (b) Head trajectories were reconstructed using a computer program. The visual model predicted the trajectories of individual participants, using the visible motions of their neighbors as input. Credit: William Warren…

There are plenty of affordable electric bikes out there these days to fit just about any budget. But if you’ve been hoping to snag a free electric bike, it’s never been easier. Now all you have to do is move to Arizona. Or more specifically, to Culdesac Tempe, a car-free rental apartment community in Tempe, AZ. The community is billed as the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US. The design of the neighborhood prioritizes biking, walking, and transit over cars and…

The Belcaro neighborhood, nestled between Washington Park and Cherry Creek, commands an average home sale price of over $2.5 million. In the first six months of 2022, the median sales price for homes in Belcaro and Washington Park topped $1 million. “It’s a really desirable place to live,” says Stuart Crowell with LIV Sotheby’s International Realty. He and co-lister Delroy Gill helped John Elway’s ex-wife Janet McKinnon sell her Belcaro mansion for $4.1 million in March. What makes Belcaro appealing? The neighborhood…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How often do you glance at your neighborhood app, like Nextdoor or others, and learn about some crime in your area? Surely, it was not the intention of the app developers, but every time you hear of a crime nearby, you might think that crime in your area is rampant. A new study by a University of Houston psychologist indicates that is exactly how the mind works—those helpful and popular…

Chicago geography and simulated pollutants. (a) Neighborhoods and highways within the city of Chicago. Inset at lower left depicts the location of Chicago (black) within the 1.3 km domain. In the right column, we provide annualized WRF-CMAQ simulated (b) NO2, (c) O3, and (d) PM2.5 concentrations over Chicago and average concentrations within city limits (μ). Credit: Northwestern University If you live along one of the major…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new analysis of crime statistics near hundreds of places of worship in Washington, D.C., shows that these sites are associated with higher levels of violent and property crime—even after accounting for other factors commonly linked with crime. James Wo of the University of Iowa, U.S., presents these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 8, 2023.…

Peter Parker overcomes his demons in this preview of Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #5. Can he overcome the Demon Bear?Published Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:26:10 -0600 by Jude Terror | Welcome to our preview of Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #5, the series finale! In this preview, Peter Parker faces his greatest challenge yet, as he attempts to overcome his inner demons. Can he overcome the Demon Bear and save his neighborhood? We'll have to wait and see. With me is Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron. Let's see what…

Credit: alice-photo/Shutterstock Just over a year after fleeing the Taliban and seeking asylum in the UK, more than 150 Afghan refugees, including children, are facing more upheaval. In a matter of weeks, the Home Office has given dozens of refugee and asylum seeker families short notice that they will be moved from their accommodation in London to hotels in Yorkshire and Bedfordshire, hundreds of miles away.…

For Jerome Mage, owner of luxury eyewear brand Jacques Marie Mage, Sycamore Avenue in Hollywood between Santa Monica Boulevard and Willoughby Avenue evokes a certain nostalgia. “I really fell in love with that street,” the French expat said. “It’s a little slice of heaven, almost like what old L.A. used to be, from the early 2000s.” The designer, whose business is based in Hollywood, liked the street so much that in late 2022 he opened his second retail location on Sycamore Avenue (the first is in Venice), with his…