For a city that’s below sea level and covered in water, getting more green space involves looking toward the ocean.
When a city is below sea level, maybe it makes sense that a new city forest should float. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, some neighborhoods aren’t just below sea level—they’re as much as 20 feet below, and over a third of the city surface is already covered in water. In March, a group of artists there will start to plant trees in the harbor instead of on land.
She writes sketches on Inside Amy Schumer and short humor for The New Yorker. Here’s how Hallie Cantor stays succinctly funny.
Brevity is soul. Usually that quote is longer, but who has that kinda time? With so much content competing for our attention, there’s a lot to be said for doing more with less. Unless there’s a way to say that with fewer words.
New technologies may usurp old ones nearly every year, but many of us still reach for our old-school laptops. That’s no accident.
My wife was recently using her tablet, and I asked if she’d replied to an important email. She promptly put down the tablet and reached for her laptop. “Why not your tablet?” I quizzed. She gave me her best “Are you kidding?” face, saying in total deadpan: “I have work to do here.” My wife loves her tablet and uses it nearly every day but she clearly reaches for her laptop for “serious tasks.” While most of us can likely agree that mobile is the future of computing, something very interesting is happening here. In a world where new technologies usurp the old nearly every year, many of us are reaching for our old school laptops surprisingly often. This isn’t just nostalgia, there is something deeply inadequate about mobile. This post is about figuring out how to fix it.
From cellulose guitars to shape-shifting walls, Eastman Innovation Lab wants to introduce designers to emerging material science.
Advancements in industrial design are inextricably linked to material science. As designers look for ways to manufacture products that perform better and last longer, materials often offer a solution. But introducing designers to these new materials is more difficult than it sounds.
Its benefits depend on where you live and your current economic status.
The Internet has often been called the Great Democratizer; a tool that gives everyone the opportunity to have their voice heard and to gain access to the same universal wealth of information as everyone else–-in short, a tool that puts everyone on equal footing. But according to a new report from the World Bank, that feel-good belief may be far from the truth. In fact, the Internet may be widening inequality.
Move will speed development of driverless cars.
A new proposal to be unveiled by Obama administration officials on Thursday will speed the development of self-driving cars, according to Reuters. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit on Thursday to discuss the administration’s initiative to get autonomous vehicles on the road faster in part by laying down a legal framework and guidelines that governs their use.
The photography of Areca Roe explores why some people choose a pig or a python over a dog or a cat.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have a heart attack when they find a burmese python in their living room, and those who only start panicking when their python is missing. Housebroken, a series of photographs collected into a book by Minneapolis-based Areca Roe, focuses on the latter: individuals who choose to share their life with strange and exotic pets like snakes, parrots, and pigs.
Make way for mutant bacon.
It took two decades for the first genetically engineered animal to get approved for your dinner. Now that AquAdvantage salmon—with DNA engineered from three species—is moving forward, more genetically modified meat is likely to follow. But it’s not clear how long that will take.
The widow of a man killed by ISIS has filed a lawsuit, accusing Twitter of allowing the terrorist group to spread its message.
The widow of a man killed in an attack on a Jordanian police training center filed a lawsuit against Twitter on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, accusing the company of giving a mouthpiece to terrorist groups like ISIS—which took credit for the attack. The suit argues that ISIS has used Twitter to attract new recruits and to disseminate propaganda, and that the site has “knowingly or with willful blindness” aided terrorists as a result.
Samsung will likely spend $7.47 billion to expand flexible OLED display business, ET News reports.
Samsung’s display business is planning to spend $7.47 billion to expand its capacity to manufacture flexible OLED displays for future mobile devices, including iPhones.
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