A review of Perspecta 37: Famous..."I said, 'Jeff, what are all those glasses for?'" Mr. Stern recalls in Perspecta 37, the latest issue of Yale's architecture journal. "He said, 'Well, Big Daddy is afraid that they may not be available in the future so he bought them all.'" Mr. Stern goes on to... View full entry
The inventor of the Flash Mob tells all. Harpers | Recently View full entry
Who knew? The entire globe is centered on a little horse farm just outside Coffeyville, Kansas. Just go to Google Maps and Zoom In. Wired View full entry
Home version: a hut of one's own, right down to the grass mats. Go ahead have a mai tai and do not forget to click on the photo gallery.LaTimes View full entry
Comic artists Art Spiegelman, author of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers, and Joe Sacco, author of Palestine: In the Gaza Strip, weigh in on the cartoon controversy. The Nation | previous View full entry
The man calling for violent attacks on architects - indeed on anyone with the remotest connection to Oxford University - in the name of animal rights, is an American named Nicholas Atwood, living in Florida, with a website registered in Malaysia. The Brits say they can't prosecute him; but isn't... View full entry
Another great reversal of our time! Sci-fi authors have all the answers, and entertainment becomes science. What happens when Michael Crichton meets GWB? Perhaps a new plan on global warming and government sponsorship for a real Jurassic Park. View full entry
Ferrari conquered Paris in 8 minutes now its doing 15,000 (infra)RED miles! In search of drivers? Got to test all that new infrastructure... View full entry
Neither fully urban nor completely suburban, America's older, inner-ring, "first" suburbs have a unique set of challenges””such as concentrations of elderly and immigrant populations as well as outmoded housing and commercial buildings””very different from those of the... View full entry
Imagine the albedo effect of a black planet””every living thing would fry.caltech,pdf. Sort of history of oxygen. View full entry
Stacey Vanek Smith , an NPR producer, reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy's book, American Vertigo, a frolicking travelogue critique of American culture in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. View full entry
The Worth1000 virtuosos display their latest contest: round things made square. I want a bunny. View full entry
Coney Island, NYC On Stillwell Avenue, bumper cars were arranged in neat rows, unridden. Near the Boardwalk, skeletal plastic frames and a few shreds of tarp were all that remained of the tents and tables that sell toys and trinkets during the summer. The crack of baseball bats in the cages is... View full entry
The mythical past of (hu)man as master of his domain has been called into question. Did the harsh situtation of the environment condition our ancestors to evolve increased levels of cooperation and sociablity? BBC View full entry
"With higher birth rates among Hispanic and Asian New Yorkers, immigrants continuing to gravitate to New York City and a housing boom transforming all five boroughs, the city is struggling to cope with a phenomenon that few other cities in the Northeast or Midwest now face: a growing population... View full entry