Miya Masoaka lets plants kick out the jams in Pieces for Plants. Ingredients: laptop, synthesizer, and the American semi-tropical climbing Philodendron. Or see the video. View full entry
An internal memo sent to Wal-Mart's board of directors proposes numerous ways to hold down spending on health care and other benefits while seeking to minimize damage to the retailer's reputation. Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from... View full entry
Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's, died yesterday at her home in Detroit. She was 92 years old... View full entry
L.A.'s Sunset Strip, considered a premier venue for outdoor advertising, is dominated by Regency Outdoor Advertising's billboards. The company, owned by Drake and Brian Kennedy, is embroiled in allegations of political corruption involving the placement of some of its signs. LA Times View full entry
Could Cameron Diaz be the next celeb to fall victim to the architecture bug? She drops in with Bill McDonough on a class at Stanford. | sdoe | usatdy View full entry
Yes, you can now take package tours of the world's worst (known) nuclear disaster site - Chernobyl, where "this empty landscape, with its occasional eerie ghost town and frozen-in-time buildings, has become Ukraine's most talked-about tourist attraction. With radiation levels having decreased... View full entry
In a shift toward domestic power production, home wind turbines have proved not only efficient but profitable in the north of England. Some now "envisage a future in which we all generate electricity at home: wind turbines on roofs, solar panels in gardens and heat pumps in basements." Sunday... View full entry
...though smaller than some earlier predictions, nonetheless represents more than a quarter of the city's housing stock. A few weeks from now, when giant track excavators begin tearing into homes that once sheltered families and nest eggs, the city will experience one of the most painful moments... View full entry
mi casa es no su casa. got that? via milliyet View full entry
Rafael Trelles is an artist who has taken to inscribing figures into the grime and mold of public surfaces in San Juan using a high-pressure hose and stencils, like so... | via View full entry
The visiting firefighters used a new machine called a "strong arm" to bring down the Warehouse District building, which the city of New Orleans had declared uninhabitable earlier that day."I was on the verge of tears. In a matter of hours, they reduced that facade to a pile of rubble," says Jerre... View full entry
The 3rd annual Frieze Art Fair opened in London today. The fair, sponsored by Frieze magazine, has quickly become one of the world's premier contemporary art expositions next to Art Basel and Art Basel/Miami. I have to admit I'm a bit jealous that my studio mate got invited again this year. Then... View full entry
A discussion after the world's biggest charette - an intensive collaborative planning meeting where urban design professionals tackle everything from what kinds of housing to build to how to lay out city streets. Listen/Blog at PRI's:Radio Open Source with Christopher Lyden View full entry
Democracy Now spends an hour with Mike Davis. Discussing the threat of pandemic avian flu which is the subject of Davis' new book The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu. View full entry
Amartya Sen , Nobel Prize Winner for Economics and professor at Harvard University speaks with Brian Lehrer about his new book The Argumentative Indian: Writing on Indian History, Culture and Identity. View full entry