Monthly Archives: June 2015

Gastropod: Field Recordings

By Gastropod | Published: June 30, 2015

Plants that can hear themselves being eaten. Microphone-equipped drones that eavesdrop on sick chickens. Lasers that detect an insect’s wing-beats from dozens of feet away. In this James Bond-inspired episode of Gastropod, we listen to the soundtrack of farming, decode the meaning hidden in each squawk, moo, and buzz, and learn how we can use […]

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Los Angeles à la Carte

By Nicola | Published: June 13, 2015

IMAGE: Ollie Hammond’s, 3683 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1950. From To Live and Dine in L.A.: A Century of Menus from the Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library by Josh Kun, published by Angel City Press. Restaurant menus seem like the most ephemeral of ephemera: updated seasonally or even daily; printed in-house on cheap card […]

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