Growing, processing, and shipping one calories worth of [organic] arugula to the East Coast costs fifty-seven calories of fossil fuel. The growing of the arugula is indeed organic, but almost everything else is late-capitalist...

The reason Second Life bugs me is not the fact that it slows my computer to a crawl, that most of my fellow characters are impossibly thin girls with overinflated breasts, or that most...

These days people rely on a veritable Noah’s Ark of support animals … although dogs are the most common service animals taken onto planes, the [American Airlines] has had to accommodate monkeys, miniature horses,...

A businesss background music is like an aural pheromone. It attracts some customers and repels others, and it gives pedestrians walking past the front door an immediate clue about whether they belong inside. A...

The United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world … American babies are three times more likely to die in their first month as children born in Japan, and...

Men in white rubber suits and gas masks chasing down chickens in rural villages… Chickens sold and slaughtered in live markets… Wild birds flying across the sky… These are the typical images broadcast by...

The Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs has some interesting photos.

We got into this dilemma because we essentially dont have a strategy for dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue. By we I mean the United States and the Bush administration … In the spring...

Here’s a nice array of ancient calendar observatories but unfortunately, as usual, for the Hibernian Isles it skips over all the really meaningful stuff and focusses on Stonehenge. I blame Spinal Tap for much...