Mesmerizing time-lapse photos by Alexey Titarenko profiling the nebulous forms of people in a “City of Shadows” (St. Petersburg just after the collapse of the Soviet Union).[via link]
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A profile in courage out of the New Yorker:
“Ten months ago, Grant Achatz, a chef, was given a diagnosis of tongue cancer. He was informed that if he did not start treatment immediately he would die. “You have Stage IV cancer,” he remembers being told by a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center. “There is no Stage V.
Doctors removed lymph nodes from his neck; a pink scar now extends from an inch below Achatz’s left earlobe to an inch above the collarbone. He was also given twelve... Read Full Story
Bill Henson’s photos of people at the opera, including a short interview with the photographer.
What I was interested in terms of Paris Opera series was that whole strange business of finding oneself with a whole lot of other people gathered in a darkened space, such as the opera, awaiting some special event. There is something quite magical about it. I’ve always found that people sitting in the dark just waiting for something is the most haunting sort of experience. It seemed to me it was... Read Full Story
This may test your credulity, but, nevertheless… If you check out the U.S. Census Bureau’s website, you can fully access a truly awesome book: the Census Atlas of the United States. Hard to believe .gov gets anything right, but in the world of possibility, there’s always the exception.[via VSL]
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Abu Dhabi aims to build the first carbon-neutral city. That’s either irony or thinking ahead — probably a little of both. Don’t miss the video version featuring an animated fly-through.
“In Abu Dhabi, there’s an area of nothing but wind-swept desert. But 10 years from now, if all goes according to plan, a city of 6 square kilometers housing 50,000 people will rise in the United Arab Emirates — and it will be carbon neutral.
The project, called Masdar City, will burn no gas or oil, so its... Read Full Story
Granted, there are some big problems inherent in using a consumer spending index as a yardstick of national health. However, an interactive consumer spending infographic can be elucidating. Kudos to the New York Times. [via link]
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When I started reading a story about a guy who joined the NSA after working at Disney’s Imagineering, my curiosity was peaked. What could a guy with that dossier look like? Exactly like Eric Haseltine, with the most perfect crossover face you can imagine. As a neuroscientist and ‘psycho-ecologist,’ Eric not only overuses phrases like “bad guys” and “war on terror”, but you can readily imagine him tracking villains both real and make believe.
In Haseltine’s estimation, something called... Read Full Story
One of the most fantastic things about building a suite of tools around a community, instead of the other way around, is that users are always willing to pitch in and help out others with tutorials and forum assistance. It’s A.viary’s plan to build their applications with a very deep set of community tools, built around forums, wiki-documentation, chat, sharable workspaces and user-made tutorials like this one for Chocolatizing a Statue.
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