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A very interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times explains that our brains are often at their most active, creative and effective when trying to process bad instructions, misinformation, or trying to find patterns when no signs are present. The accompanying image (pictured) shows a blank road sign on a desert road, which got us [...]

In this New York Times article from Monday, Henry Fountain takes the recent unveiling of the glass boxes on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower as a jumping off point (pun intended) to discuss how new kinds of glass are finally making the architectural impulse towards completely translucent buildings a possibility. What would a [...]

Yesterday an amazing story in the New York Times about the growing cook-off trend in the city got us really hungry. Passionate home cooks, event planners, bloggers and a few professional foodies have generated a bonafide cook-off community in New York, which comes together fairly regularly around events like tofu, cupcakes, risotto, cassoulet, fondue, pork, [...]

An interesting article in the Technology section of Sunday’s New York Times had us on the edge of our seats as we read about how the U.S. army combat trains its digital soldiers. This, of course, reminded us of so many films that struggle with the problematic narrative dilemma of how to make a story [...]

Today’s coverage of the elections in South Africa in the New York Times evinces all kinds of pessimism in a political process that continually rewards the African National Congress no matter how low their approval ratings fall. After all, when you liberate a country from apartheid, you’re pretty much guaranteed positive name associations no matter [...]

As you may have heard (especially if you live/work in New York City), there was some recent drama over the official re-naming of the patriotism-friendly Freedom Tower as the corporate-cold 1 World Trade Center. In response, the New York Times blog City Room launched an open invitation to designers for a sexy 1 World Trade [...]

The food bloggosphere is all a-Twitter over goat meat, which is the most consumed meat in the world and in the midst of a transition to haute cuisine status (at least the New York Times says so). Although many of the goat recipes we’ve come across (like goat tacos and goat ravioli) sound amazing, we’re [...]

24-hour news channels and countless Internet outlets allow every news topic its allotted 15 minutes of fame and then some. Certain subjects produce a bounty of newsworthy details, but in a world where blogs update us three times a day on already-exhausted subjects and readers have a fly’s attention span, overexposure and ubiquity are [...]

As you, web-savvy reader, likely already know (and are actively precipitating by getting your information from this blog), the nation’s major newspapers are dying. Several paper-owning conglomerates have filed for bankruptcy, many smaller companies are losing money every day, and The New York Times took out a loan on its own building.
In several cities near [...]

Through all the doom and gloom of the current financial-political-social-environmental situation, it’s still a little exciting to find ourselves at one of those rare historical moments when Old White Men’s firm grip on power is threatened. As banks collapse, financial firms go bankrupt and various industry leaders ask for hand-outs, there’s been plenty of accompanying [...]