Aviation Odyssey

Falsehoods About Aviation

Ben Burwell | Angle Of Attack | 2nd June 2025

Organising aviation data is a herculean task, as programmers cannot assume that any of the following are constants — flights take off and land at airports; flights only depart from a gate; flights only leave their gate once; no two flights use the same flight number at the same time; each runway is only used by one airport; there is one agreed-upon definition of altitude; airports don’t move (1,000 words)

Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone!

A Rural Public Transit Odyssey

A.M. Hickman | Hickman’s Hinterlands | 5th June 2025

Dispatches from a trip across rural New York entirely by public buses. The routes are “cockamamie and improvised”, hard to find on Google Maps. The bus stops are “tiny shanties in the middle of nowhere”; the bus fare is often vague. One rider seemed to be paying in the form of car wash tokens. “To be young in a place like this is to be a kind of celebrity.” People stare, wordlessly saying, “Look — young people!” (5,700 words)