The architect Andrew Burgess projects an image of the Icelandic parliament building onto the building itself and then mucks with it in various interesting ways.
Fun fact: "Thing" means "parliament" or "assembly" in Icelandic. So the projection is another thing, literally.
Via Archinect.
We've been hearing a lot about these Zero Rupee Notes, which Indian citizens have been handing to corrupt officials who demand bribes. They were created by a University of Maryland professor and distributed by the "corruption killer" NGO 5th Pillar.
I was at first skeptical that they could be effective, until I read this explanation of their...
The European Union is doing an impressive job of switching over to renewable sources of electricity:
Renewable energy made up the bulk of new power generation capacity added in the European Union last year, the European Wind Energy Association, or EWEA, said Wednesday.
Renewables accounted for 61% of new electricity generating capacity in...
NASA Images is making 50 years worth of media in its archive available to the public and launching a "Guest Showcase" series of online exhibitions curated by experts in the fields of science, education, art, entertainment, business, and academia. The first participant is Stephen Nowlin, Vice President and Director of the Alyce de Roulet...
If the successful lobbying by the beverage industry to stop in its tracks a tax on sodas is any indication of its power and influence, our first lady had best beware.
Tomorrow, as part of her campaign on reducing childhood obesity, she will unveil her new plan for healthy-eating. It will include a ban on junk food in schools.
Already, the...
Last week, the Civil Rights Project, a part of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies released a report titled "Choice without Equity," where it asserted that charter schools are far less diverse than normal public schools.
Here's an excerpt from the report's foreword:
Some charter schools enrolled populations where...
It kind of breaks my heart that the Federal Trade Commission may soon crack down on “greenwashing.”
For years, polluters’ claims that they were the biggest friends of the environment have made for hilariously contradictory ad campaigns. Hilarious in the sense that you had to laugh to avoid crying.
The very existance of greenwash marketing...
The economist Samuel Bowles has an interesting theory about why it's good to keep wealth inequality in check. When there's lots of wealth inequality, he says, more and more people have to be employed as "guard labor"—as protectors of the rich peoples' stuff and defenders of their interests. From the Santa Fe Reporter:
Inequality leads to an...
The practice of individually packaging consumer products may not have originated in the 20th Century, but that's certainly when it was perfected; our landfills are stacked with unconscionable mounds of plastic waste as a reminder. Fortunately, there are those among us working to buck the trend and put a dent in our masses of trash.
What...
In a report slated for release on Wednesday by the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a survey of 2,500 people, asked about their views on public policy and other matters of civic nature, found that the more educated a person is, the more liberal they are, as it regards social issues.
From The Chronicle of...
