A discussion on how lack of sleep and an accelerated lifestyle affect our health. Specially good for those incoming grad students...OnPoint View full entry
US Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton joined Priscilla Presley on Monday in a ceremony designating Graceland Mansion in Memphis a National Historic Landmark. Read | Graceland Tours View full entry
Chicago plays host to the traveling exhibition of photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, who documented the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans for decades. Over two thirds of their negatives were lost in 2005 when their home and photography studio flooded and was left under 8 ft. of... View full entry
4 minutes of phenomena. Are you awake? 5:54 a.m. Prepare for totality 5:54:59 a.m. Totality begins 5:58:44 a.m. Totality ends (Eastern Standard Time) 3/29/06 web cast View full entry
Brad Pitt will be narrating this summer's public television series, Design: e2, about "worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design." ABC. View full entry
"Control of Britain's most controversial nuclear site, Sellafield, will move into the private sector through the sale of its state-owned operator, British Nuclear Group, the government will announce tomorrow. The £1bn disposal will come alongside wider plans to hand over... View full entry
"Dutchman Johan Huibers is building a working replica of Noah's Ark as a testament to his Christian faith. The 47-year-old from Schagen, 45km (30 miles) north of Amsterdam, plans to set sail in September through the interior waters of the Netherlands." BBC. View full entry
Do you know Urville? A french city of 11.5 millions inhabitants located outside the french Riviera, its architecture having been designed by illustrious people like Oscar Laballiére (1803-1883), and which includes among others a well known Column of the Human Rights Declaration and... View full entry
The suburbs have always ”” well, nearly always ”” been with us. In the sixth century B.C., rich urbanites retreated to the quiet, unspoiled outskirts of Babylon. Americans have taken the concept somewhat further; today more of us live in what the writer Michael Pollan has... View full entry
Bidoun Magazine goes on the vacation mode and pulls up some interesting finds. Featured in the current number is Nader Vossoughian's On Pirates, Statisticians and Cruise Ship Directors, A conversation with Keller Easterling | Previously View full entry
A nice comparision between photos taken from the exact position just after the tsunami and a year later in Thailand - via warshooter (blog for war photographers) View full entry
Geoff hit this earlier, but the SF Weekly has a big spread on the art collective Rebar, whose "silly-but-serious endeavors tackle issues of space and land use with an odd mix of artistry, activism, performance, industrial design, and a heavy dose of ironically detached criticism." View full entry
"Melbourne is the proud capital of street painting with stencils. Its large, colonial-era walls and labyrinth of back alleys drip with graffiti that is more diverse and original than any other city in the world. Well, that was until a few weeks ago, when preparations for the Commonwealth games... View full entry
In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere. *(check out the scanner device)AP. Read a possible doomsday scnerio piece in... View full entry
As if hawks weren't enough problems for New Yorkers now coyotes want a piece of the city life. What will the neighbors think? Hell I had a raccoon in my flat in Chicago trying to eat the garbage. NYT View full entry