Transportation

In the business of getting to space, an access of sublime ephemerality. Video after the jump.

A laboratory in Montana that limns the bases of avian flight; a tumblr that collects evidence of our airborne technological fantasies.

The strenuous outsider scholarship of underground intellectual Steve Duncan charts the history of New York public transit, surreptitiously. Video after the jump.

A great idea for getting around in the snow, for which Fritz Rice of Seattle's Dutch Bicycle Co. generously credits fixie hipsters.

An all-but-forgotten airborne car ferry glimpsed an alternative future of unwieldy luxury.

A teenager who fell to his death from the wheel well of a Boston-bound airliner furnishes an example of a rarity in our time: a truly outrageous act.

By slowing down your music, this app helps you keep below the speed limit. Whether it makes driving safer or not, it's a reminder that augmented reality is about more than images.

Renowned motorcycle builders create a real-life version of the Tron light cycle. It's sleek, it's masterfully built�and it's a pale reflection of the preternatural awesomeness of the 1982 movie's original.

In an inspired take on the ongoing spate of airport screening controversies, Popular Mechanics� Erin McCarthy interviews cattle behavior expert Temple Grandin.

Don't even think of challenging this poisoned pooch to a staring contest�or the postmen of the Great Northern Railway, who were the early 20th century's answer to the Internet.