Cake in the Mail

IMAGE: William and Kate’s official royal wedding cake. The British fruit cake may not taste quite as delicious as Prince William’s favourite chocolate biscuit cake, but its alcohol-soaked sultanas and rock-solid royal icing give it an impressive shelf-life...

Another Reason Not to Get a Tattoo of Your Local Liquor Store

IMAGE: Anthony Garcia, photographed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, via the Los Angeles Times. 25-year-old gang member Anthony Garcia spent years adding detail to the drawing of a Pico Rivera liquor store on his chest, including a loop of...

Strange and Beautiful Seeds From the Atom

IMAGE: Garden show display advertising “super atomic energized seeds,” photo by Frank Scherschel for Life, 1961, via Pruned At her blog, Garden History Girl, Paige Johnson (by day, a nanotechnology researcher at the University of Tulsa), describes the...

Sprawl / Growth

IMAGE: Matthew Moore’s farm being eaten by sprawl. All images via Matthew Moore. Over at GOOD, I published a story by Thomas Gorman, a Berkeley News21 Fellow, about farmer and artist Matthew Moore’s Lifecycles project. Moore is a sculptor and...