Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, but they also don’t think it matters. nyt View full entry
Hard problems demand creative solutions, so Architect Magazine asked a range of experts—architects, engineers, planners, nonprofit leaders, elected officials, and critics—how they'd fix America's infrastructure if they had the chance (and $1.6 trillion to spend). View full entry
Conceived and directed by professors Ben van Berkel, Sanford Kwinter, and Johan Bettum with Luis Etchegorry, Fifteen Pieces for a Soundscape - First Movement is an architectural installation comprising a swarm of fourteen objects hovering in space in front of a wall-mounted photographic tableaux... View full entry
Darrell Fields , professor at University of Arkansas, talks of APPX, Superurbia, and Shoroom. The title of the first issue is "Sold Out." | nwanews | more info View full entry
3D modelers in India have designed houses based on lyrics for "House Where Nobody Lives" by Tom Waits (1999), "Our House" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970), and "House With No Door" by Van Der Graaf Generator (1970). Really weird... View full entry
The residential property boom that has engulfed Moscow over the past few years is, by almost any measure, impressive. Buoyed by Russia’s rapidly expanding economy, domestic property buyers spent an estimated $20bn in the capital last year, according to government statistics. FT Home prices... View full entry
Last month, a PBS documentary called “Growing Up Online” revealed that kids today create false Internet identities, contend with cyberbullies and visit Web sites that promote anorexia. To my surprise, I felt defensive: the scare phrase “growing up online” recalled nothing... View full entry
In a feat of optical alchemy, researches at University of Rochester use ultrashort laser bursts to pockmark the surface of a metal to alter how the metal absorbs and reflects light thus changing the its optical properties into a broader range of finishes. NYT View full entry
The National Library in Denmark plans to archive the original Prophet Muhammad caricatures that sparked violent protests across the Islamic world two years ago. IHT View full entry
Tourism has long since become a crucial phenomenon of today’s mobile world society. The traces left by travelers all over the Earth give evidence of a continually growing tourist industry and mark the beginning of a global movement that drastically transforms present-day man and the spaces... View full entry
Almost forgotten by the mainstream, Greyhound tries to recapture travelers who have the time. Two recent views. 1 | 2 View full entry
Shepard Fairey shows his support. View full entry
New York gossip website Gawker was launched in 2002 by an internet entrepreneur and a naïf new to the city—Professor Henry Higgins and his Eliza Doolittle... n+1 | previous View full entry
Businessman Gary Hirshberg believes that businesses can be more profitable and help save the planet at the same time. In his new book, Stirring It Up, he explains how he used environmental principles to build Stoneyfield Farms, a $300 million-per-year organic yogurt company. Listen and Read @ WNYC View full entry
The world’s total meat supply was 71 million tons in 1961. In 2007, it was estimated to be 284 million tons which = 3 Tons of manure for each American. Yummy... NYT View full entry