Americans visiting Europe discover that food scraps go in a bin, and Europeans visiting America discover a switch on the wall that makes a noise like a small industrial accident…
An American arriving in Italy or France in August and discovering that the windows have shutters, glass and nothing else is reliably astonished. An Italian arriving in Ohio and finding…
Stand on an American building site and what you see does not look like a house. It looks like a very large piece of furniture: a lattice of identical thin…
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It is one of the most standardized objects in American life and almost nobody knows it was standardized on purpose. Every school bus is the same color. Not…
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For most of the twentieth century an American car seated three in front. Not uncomfortably and not as an emergency measure - as the design intent. The seat…
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The building came on a truck, and that explains almost everything else. Here are ten.
1. The Counter Was the Point and the Booths Were the Overflow
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