Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas

As the keynote speaker at last weekend's Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair , author and new urbanist thinker James Howard K...

New Scientist : IMAGINE being able to record a smell and play it back later, just as you can with sounds or images. Engineers at the Tokyo I...

Commercial messages have become so ubiquitous we often tend to relegate them to the background or zone them out completely. To illustrate th...

Editor & Publisher : One of the most memorable scene in Michael Moore's controversial documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," feat...

Alternative fuels are great, said James Howard Kunstler at the renewable energy fair last weekend, but unless we change our car-centric cu...

"Our urns are so soft and cuddly that it makes you want to hug them. It's nice to know that your loved one's final resting plac...

Found somewhere on the net (if you're the photographer, let me know and I'll put up a link).

Pardon the brief hiatus: I've been out of town visiting my parents and attending the Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair in ...

Robot geese , toilets for birds , luxury housing for bats : in her new series of experiments, artist and activist Natalie Jeremijenko explo...

Seven-year-old Chen Jiakun of Shangdong province in China was born with a rare disorder: he was born with his heart, like the one in the Sac...

Sen. Russ Feingold again makes us Wisconsinites proud, this time in a GQ interview aptly titled, " The Real Maverick ": Would you ...

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that the Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe o...

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I suppose I should concede this is good advertising because seeing this billboard on Interstate 394 west of Minneapolis, I wondered what the...

From Wooster Collective .

In Jaffa, Israel, designer Yaacov Kaufman has curated a show featuring some 300 examples of clothespins , tracing the humble history of thi...

FATASS is a moniker this horde of plus-size cheerleaders welcome. The Fat Action Troupe Allstar Spirit Squad cheers about body acceptance a...

This rare rainbow, a circumhorizontal arc seen in Idaho June 3 (above), "isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by l...

SWAPATORIUM 's gallery of antique photos with a silhouetted cameraman are either creepy or poignant, depending on your point of view. S...

The Norwegian government has broken ground--or maybe ice--for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, an underground vault in the remote arctic Sval...