Discoveries of Mayan ruins and artifacts in Central American have given archaeologists a chance to decode and decipher Mayan hieroglyphs, whose meanings have been lost to our collective history. NYT View full entry
Evolving consumer tastes and business trends are changing the way we shop for groceries. Once a dull, utilitarian task that stressed low prices over style, grocery shopping is taking on new and even exciting facets. FutureWire View full entry
The US Department of Defense is about to release a video of American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon. This footage has never before been seen by the public - a videographic absence which has inspired many many many conspiracy theories involving missiles... View full entry
Inspired by a 1929 sci-fi magazine, with its depiction of a flying city, Janey Cook built a small-scale reproduction out of yellow Legos: photos. Story. BLDGBLOG. View full entry
Rebecca Warren, Phil Collins, Tomma Abts and Mark Titchner comprise the shortlist for the Tate's Turner Prize. | bbc | slideshow View full entry
Authorities evacuated about 1,400 homes in east-central Florida on Monday after a brush fire jumped across a highway and threatened a residential area. The 800-acre blaze started in a rural area along Interstate 95, then moved across the pavement, posing a threat to homes and forcing officials to... View full entry
Sunken city of Alexandria surfaces in the Gropius in Berlin. spiegel | via View full entry
Members of the Yes Men, a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists, gave a presentation at a trade conference pretending to be Halliburton executives touting large inflatable suits that provide corporate managers safety from global warming. Read | The Yes Men | How Halliburton Solves... View full entry
"Massachusetts is about to become the first state in the nation to ban certain construction and demolition materials from landfills. The ban is designed to help preserve limited landfill capacity and increase recycling, but it already is generating opposition." ENR. View full entry
What happens when a grizzly bear hooks up with a polar bear? now we know. No word on whether the White House has banned this new species View full entry
My good friend Peter (director of the LA GH office and designer of Archinect's Robot t-shirts) is looking for creative people to share space in their penthouse suite in the awesome American Cement building near MacArthur Park. Click here for the details View full entry
China has always seen itself as the center of interpreting its owe historic legacy. Now it has launched its own version of a web-based encyclopedia, called Baidupedia as a its alternative to Western dominated sites like Wikipedia. BBC View full entry
To an on-air lineup that features the likes of Howard Stern, Martha Stewart and Maxim Radio, insert the baritone voice of Cardinal Edward M. Egan, archbishop of New York. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is venturing into satellite radio, announcing a deal yesterday to work with Sirius... View full entry
Players in the art market who have made vast sums of money in businesses like the world financial markets went shopping for the contemporary art at Sotheby's last night, dropping sums that baffled some of today's savvy professionals. Two paintings tied for the sale's highest price. NYT View full entry
England's attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, "said today that Guantánamo Bay had become a 'symbol of injustice' and called for the US base to be closed." Guardian. If it does close, they can just move everyone here. View full entry