Thanks to my colleague Daphne Bramham for bringing the following ground-breaking study to my attention:
After three years, and presumably thousands of dollars, Esther Kim, a Yale University researcher, has concluded commuters will go to great lengths to avoid each while travelling on a bus.
“We live in a world of strangers, where life in public spaces feels increasingly anonymous,” said Kim, in a media release published by an online journal.
“However, avoiding ...
