Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen Counter Space: The Evolution of the Kitchen, running at New York’s Museum of Modern Art through March 2011, chronicles...
Mind-Controlled Sex Slaves and the CIA Every once in a while I run across a book that makes me think, “This world. It’s a big...
British Team To Search for the Mande Barung in Northern India The Mande Barung (sometimes spelled Mande Burung or Mande-burung) is an apelike creature thought to reside in the tropical...
NYC’s Subway Art History Collective The New York Times has a great article today on the Subway Art History project by a collective called...
Giant Viruses Devour the World’s Oceans Just in Time for Halloween An article in The Scientist discusses the earthshaking changes in the world of virus genomes. Seriously! Giant viruses. Who...
Why College No Longer Blows: Television and Brrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnssss There’s a story by Debra Levi Holtz in today’s SF Chronicle about a new course at UC Berkeley that...
Robot Hand is a Balloon Filled With Coffee Grounds Fast Company’s Ariel Schwarz has a post about an amazing robot hand developed by researchers at Cornell, iRobot Corporation...
The New Global Plague: Children’s Constipation Let me say at the outset: if you’re a casual reader of this fine upstanding family blog or you...
Meet the Sheriff Who Tweets About Sarah Palin’s Underwear Actually, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County didn’t just tweet Sarah Palin’s underwear. He gave them to her first....
Techyum Halloween: Really Gross Halloween Candy Burying human hearts in the local cemetery is a little hardcore (and surely time-consuming) for Halloween revelers who want...