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March 1, 2012
Under the Toque: New Chef at Tocqueville, Farmers in the Kitchen
Jason Lawless has ascended to the position of Tocqueville's chef de cuisine. [Eater] The Bedford in Williamsburg is also getting a new chef--Jason Michael Giordano, formerly of Hotel Griffou. [Grub Street]
Film
February 8, 2012
'Talking Landscape: Early Media Work, 1974-1984'
Jason Lawless has ascended to the position of Tocqueville's chef de cuisine. [Eater] The Bedford in Williamsburg is also getting a new chef--Jason Michael Giordano, formerly of Hotel Griffou. [Grub Street]
Blogs
December 16, 2011
Lucy Cooke, Sloth Documentarian, Shares About the Animal She Calls 'Cute Crack'
Lucy Cooke may have one of the best jobs on the entire planet. She's a documentarian, a sloth documentarian; you've probably seen her work in the happiness-producing "Meet the Sloths," her video about the Aviaros sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica. Animal Planet has realized her talents (and the great po ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2011
World's Oldest Mattress Found, Free of Bed Bugs
New mattress technology, not inspired by ancient mattress.Archaeologists in South Africa have discovered what they believe is the world's oldest mattress, and they didn't even find it on Craigslist. National Geographic reports a team of researchers at the Sibudu Cave site came across bedding ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
Poll Shows That 56 Percent of Americans Don't Care About Occupy Wall Street
A new Gallup/USA Today poll shows that 56 percent of nearly 1000 respondents neither agree nor disagree with Occupy Wall Street. Fifty-nine percent don't know enough about the movement to have an opinion on it. To top it all off, there's been an increase in disapproval from 20 to 31 percent. The pol ... More >>
Columns
November 2, 2011
Free Will Astrology: November 2-8, 2011
A new Gallup/USA Today poll shows that 56 percent of nearly 1000 respondents neither agree nor disagree with Occupy Wall Street. Fifty-nine percent don't know enough about the movement to have an opinion on it. To top it all off, there's been an increase in disapproval from 20 to 31 percent. The pol ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2011
Dead Sea Actually Teeming With Life
The Dead Sea is a lie. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute found that the body of water, once thought to be barren, is actually "a fantastic hot spot for life." They discovered this after a series of dive missions last year. National Geographic reports the dive teams discovered craters at the bot ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Watch Bodega Cats in Their Natural Habitat...Bodegas
Wait, is that a mouse? No, it's just a shoelace. And so it goes, the inner workings of the mind of a bodega cat, as evidenced by this Internets Celebrities video giving NYC's bodega cats the National Geographic treatment. The New York Times is now on this like a cat on a shoelace, asking city dwelle ... More >>
Blogs
July 18, 2011
Smörgas Chef Farm Now Has Its Own Smörgas Farm
Blenheim Hill FarmAlthough plenty of chefs are turning to urban rooftop farms for their produce these days, the owners of Smörgas Chef have taken things one step further: they've opened their own farm, one that isn't part of the New York City skyline.
Blogs
June 28, 2011
Our Dwindling Agricultural Biodiversity
National Geographic via paul.kedrosky.comClick on chart to enlarge. Not to get all paranoid on you, but we're petrified at this chart, published in the July issue of National Geographic. As calculated by the Rural Advancement Foundation International, it shows how the number of fruit and ve ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Guess The Extraterrestrial Pop Star!
Katy Perry used "E.T." as the perfect opportunity to dress up in flowy-costumes and to float through space, before falling in love with a nice robot boy before they walk off into the sunset. There're kaleidoscope-effects, Kanye West, and cuts to National Geographic-style clips of animals going at i ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2011
How to Throw a Party for 7 Billion People
It's Friday: Let's throw a party for the world's entire population (about 7 billion people). We've made the Facebook invite but spent so much time trying to make it funny (what should the picture be? A cat wearing a party hat? Charlie Sheen?) that we forgot to add a location. How much space w ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2011
The Sun is 'Waking Up' in a Crappy Mood
Two scoops of pain!Good news! Our sun is about to enter "solar maximum," the time in its life-cycle when it's at its most active. Wait a second, that's bad news. National Geographic reports that within the next couple of years, massive sun storms will possibly knock out GPS systems, blow up p ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Here's a Photo of the World's Most 'Typical' Person: Joe Six-Pack is Chinese
via Yahoo!Have you seen this dude? Probably. According to National Geographic, he's the most typical person in the world. Researchers put together about 190,000 photographs of 28-year-old Han Chinese men (the largest demographic in the world -- hear that, advertisers?) to create this image of ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
It's Kind Of Hard To Be White, Says CNN
Just as National Geographic informs us that the average person is a 28-year-old Chinese male with no cell phone, CNN inquires, "Are whites racially oppressed?" The answer is obviously "no, stop talking," but the whole article is too credulous, worryingly so, giving a pretty nice platform to s ... More >>
Film
February 2, 2011
Glenn Close Recounts Humanity's Crimes Against the Planet in Home
Just as National Geographic informs us that the average person is a 28-year-old Chinese male with no cell phone, CNN inquires, "Are whites racially oppressed?" The answer is obviously "no, stop talking," but the whole article is too credulous, worryingly so, giving a pretty nice platform to s ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
NYPD Puff: Counterterror NYC Explains the City's Shiny New Police-State Look
Counterterror NYC: Semi-automatic responseThis upcoming Sunday's debut on the NatGeo cable channel of Counterterror NYC, about the annoying NYPD tactic of creating a siege mentality by walking around with big-ass weapons, has sparked an unusually frank preview by the Times. Considering that the c ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Department of Defense Keen to Harness Powers of Flying Snakes
via National Geographic/Jake Socha"Normal" snakes are scary enough. Especially when you stumble upon a huge one while you're just milling through, say, an otherwise pleasant Queens park. Or when one suddenly emerges from your toilet. But, snakes that can fly? This is utterly terrifying. Which ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2010
New Interpol Video! (Warning: Contains Semen-Like White Liquid.)
If you follow a band as slavish to style as Interpol, you've got to expect the quartet to surf art-world tides as effectively and dramatically as their music, well, doesn't. To wit: the move from the stark three-color minimalism of the Antics cover image to the bol ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Beach, Please: New York Officially Has America's Best Beach
Via National Geographic. Beaches be jealous. Click to enlarge.It's likely irritating enough for the rest of the country that we think everything here is the greatest thing ever. It must get even more difficult when we know that's the case. Like when they're told by a coastal research professo ... More >>
Art
April 27, 2010
Dominic McGill's 'FuturePerfect'; Joachim Koester at Greene Naftali; Nicolas Touron's 'The Kingdom'
Plus Cheryl McGinnis Gallery's 'Reconstructing Paper'
Voice Choices
April 27, 2010
Shujaat Husain Khan
Plus Cheryl McGinnis Gallery's 'Reconstructing Paper'
Blogs
March 31, 2010
Drink it in: National Geographic's Special Water Issue
darkpatator/flickrGulp! We're running out of water. With bluefin tuna populations dwindling, bee colonies inexplicably collapsing, and industrial farming threatening the sustainability of our food supply, the last thing you probably want to hear is that we're facing yet another edible (or, in ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2010
"Most Addictive" Sounds Mostly Jingles, Machine Noises
Buyology Inc. and Elias Arts conducted a "neuromarketing" experiment, measuring the responses (including pupil dilation and brainwaves) to a number of sounds, seeking to identify the most "addictive" -- that is, capable of creating a response outside of context. The top finisher was "baby g ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2010
Pat Robertson: Haitian Earthquake Caused by a "Pact To the Devil"
The cataclysmic 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has "flattened" the capital city, Port-Au-Prince, and killed perhaps more than a hundred thousand people*. National Geographic says it's the strongest earthquake in Haiti in 200 years, and caused by the release of seismic stresses on tectonic plates. Above, ... More >>
Columns
January 12, 2010
Free Will Astrology: January 13 through 19, 2010
The cataclysmic 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has "flattened" the capital city, Port-Au-Prince, and killed perhaps more than a hundred thousand people*. National Geographic says it's the strongest earthquake in Haiti in 200 years, and caused by the release of seismic stresses on tectonic plates. Above, ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
Endangerment, Be Damned: Giant Tuna Sells for Giant Sum at Japanese Fish Market
National GeographicBluefin tuna: the world's most expensive sashimi.Environmentalists are telling us that the bluefin tuna population in many parts of the world is more or less screwed, but that hasn't stopped the Japanese from rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Case in point: earlie ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2009
Giant Lobsters, Courtesy of Climate Change; Does Organic Food Make You a Jerk?
A new study suggests that people who buy local and organic foods -- i.e., "virtuous shoppers" -- are more likely to be immoral. Specifically, green shoppers were found to be more likely to cheat and steal. [Slate] According to recent research, higher levels of acidity in oceans, which result ... More >>
Music
November 17, 2009
Dinosaur Feathers Mix Choral Splendor with Snappy Drum Machines
A new study suggests that people who buy local and organic foods -- i.e., "virtuous shoppers" -- are more likely to be immoral. Specifically, green shoppers were found to be more likely to cheat and steal. [Slate] According to recent research, higher levels of acidity in oceans, which result ... More >>
Columns
November 12, 2008
Free Will Astrology: November 12 through 18
A new study suggests that people who buy local and organic foods -- i.e., "virtuous shoppers" -- are more likely to be immoral. Specifically, green shoppers were found to be more likely to cheat and steal. [Slate] According to recent research, higher levels of acidity in oceans, which result ... More >>
Columns
September 23, 2008
Free Will Astrology: September 24 to 30
A new study suggests that people who buy local and organic foods -- i.e., "virtuous shoppers" -- are more likely to be immoral. Specifically, green shoppers were found to be more likely to cheat and steal. [Slate] According to recent research, higher levels of acidity in oceans, which result ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 3, 2008
STEP ASIDE
Atlantic Avenue gets done up
Film
May 6, 2008
Tarsem's The Fall: A Singular Spectacle
Just like the "Losing My Religion" video!
Film
October 16, 2007
Total Denial
Just like the "Losing My Religion" video!
Blogs
July 10, 2007
Tahini? Hot Sauce? Cockroach?
Just like the "Losing My Religion" video!
Film
May 8, 2007
All Herzog, All the Time
Three-week fest at Film Forum, plus the filmmaker in the flesh
NYC Life
March 27, 2007
Gimme a Break
Desperately seeking asylum after a night of retreat
Columns
November 21, 2006
Horoscope
Desperately seeking asylum after a night of retreat
Film
April 4, 2006
On Dangerous Ground
Extreme landscapes engulf eco-warriors in visceral Chinese adventure saga
Screens
February 14, 2006
Rack Focus
Extreme landscapes engulf eco-warriors in visceral Chinese adventure saga
Screens
October 18, 2005
Fifteen Minutes
Big in Botswana: Nature mag's webcam cuts closer to framing the same than fame
Screens
July 5, 2005
Eat Human Brains; Run a Zoo
Big in Botswana: Nature mag's webcam cuts closer to framing the same than fame
Columns
September 30, 2003
Horoscope
Big in Botswana: Nature mag's webcam cuts closer to framing the same than fame
Film
September 16, 2003
Film
Big in Botswana: Nature mag's webcam cuts closer to framing the same than fame
News
October 8, 2002
Scan Artists
Big in Botswana: Nature mag's webcam cuts closer to framing the same than fame
Film
August 13, 2002
Bigger They Come
Meriwether Report
Columns
January 1, 2002
Horoscope
Meriwether Report
Film
June 19, 2001
Far and Away
Meriwether Report
Film
September 26, 2000
Might of the Hunter
Meriwether Report
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